Debate contribution: DUP's Misjudgements and deputy First Minister's Resignation
Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on .
- MLA
- Mr Matthew O'Toole
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 5 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- DUP's Misjudgements and deputy First Minister's Resignation
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5774230
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Deputy First Minister, it would be very easy for me to draw you and your party's attention to your past. My party is proud of its record. We stand and have always stood as a party of rights and non-violence, and I will take no lectures from your party. However, I am not about throwing accusations around the Chamber; I am about the public good. The public are facing charges of £2·00 a litre for diesel at the pumps. They are facing bills of £1,000 to fill their heating oil tanks. They are facing the winter with a health service that is not working. That is what we should all be focused on here. I will ask you again because you did not answer my questions: first, will you promise not to resign your office, and, secondly, will you accept that there are those in unionism who want to drag us back to a place where we should not go? Will you tell them where to go?
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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 2651/22-27.
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