Debate contribution: First Minister: Pledge of Office
Debate contribution by Miss Michelle McIlveen on .
- MLA
- Miss Michelle McIlveen
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 29 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Question for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- First Minister: Pledge of Office
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5761556
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Text
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The First Minister was on the run yesterday, and she is still on the run today. We are now told that she is not available and that she will grace the House with her presence on Monday. That will be more than a week after she stood on the Garvaghy Road breaking the law and encouraging others to break the law. There can be no evasion of accountability — not before the House, and not before the people of Northern Ireland. We know that she is only a part-time First Minister
but her first duty should be to the office that she holds and in answering to the people of Northern Ireland.
That means all the people.
Surely, that is the least that we should expect from the self-proclaimed First Minister for all.
140 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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