Topical question AQT 2681/22-27
Topical question by Mr Matthew O'Toole on .
- MLA
- Mr Matthew O'Toole
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 12 October 2026
- Type
- Topical question
- Assembly reference
- AQT 2681/22-27
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5786167
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Mr O'Toole asked the Minister of Finance, noting that we are now more than halfway through the financial year and have heard today about "continued engagement", and further noting that, as he acknowledged, there is no legal mechanism to give workers in the health service, in education or across the public sector the rise that they deserve and expect until the Executive agree a Budget, specifically when the Budget will be agreed and when public-sector workers will get a pay rise.
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