Debate contribution: Executive Budget: Public Services

Debate contribution by Mrs Ciara Ferguson on 21 September 2026.

MLA: Mrs Ciara Ferguson
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 21 September 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Executive Budget: Public Services
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5742076

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I thank the First Minister for her answer. Workers, families and businesses pay their taxes and rightly expect quality public services in return. With pressures now exceeding £1 billion and funding below assessed need, does the First Minister agree that the time for short-term Budget fixes is over and that the British Government must now deliver a fair, sustainable and baselined funding settlement that gives the Executive the resources to protect services and plan ahead?

75 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 3935/22-27.

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