Debate contribution: Victims’ Payments Board: Oversight
Debate contribution by Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly on .
- MLA
- Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 5 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Victims’ Payments Board: Oversight
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5774175
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It is incredibly important that those who suffered during the Troubles get all the help and support that they can. We recommend to anybody going through that process to reach out to a local victims and survivors' group to get that help and support. I remain disappointed that the Member is justifying his actions. It was not just standing in a line with Sinn Féin and dissidents such as Colin Duffy; he was also pictured, proudly so, with Breandán Mac Cionnaith, somebody who, as I have said, is clearly an unrepentant terrorist who carried out a bombing — a terrorist act — in Portadown town centre. Bombings were perhaps the most terrible of terrorist activities because they were indiscriminate in targeting women, children, civilians and whoever else got in the way. I am not surprised at Sinn Féin dancing to the beat of a dissident drum, but I am surprised at the SDLP doing that. It is deeply disappointing, and I suggest that the Member apologises for that behaviour.
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