Debate contribution: Summit of Devolved Administration Leaders
Debate contribution by Ms Michelle O'Neill on .
- MLA
- Ms Michelle O'Neill
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Summit of Devolved Administration Leaders
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742211
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Thank you. I was really delighted to see that it got so much attention at home, because it was such a momentous opportunity and very much builds on the elections and the historic breakthroughs of First Ministers in Scotland and Wales who all have their own journeys and their own political identities. We are all different, and that is OK. The opportunity that we had was for the leaders of Sinn Féin, the SNP and Plaid Cymru to come together in common purpose, because, while we are all different and may have different priorities and have different journeys in terms of where we have come from, how we arrived in 1998 at devolution arrangements for them and at a peace agreement for us, it gave us the opportunity to underline that it will only be the people who get to decide the future. It is for us all to have our rights honoured when it comes to self-determination. We are living through times of enormous change, and I encourage everybody to get involved in that debate. Stake your claim, because this is our future. We own it together. Such opportunities are not to be missed.
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