Debate contribution: First Minister — Pledge of Office
Debate contribution by Mr Keith Buchanan on .
- MLA
- Mr Keith Buchanan
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 5 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Questions for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- First Minister — Pledge of Office
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5774534
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Text
First Minister, your actions over the past few week have made your definition of a shared future clear to me and the 1·9 million to two million people living in Northern Ireland. On the Garvaghy Road, you held the hand of Mr Mac Cionnaith, the bomber of Portadown, who called me an "effer": I am an Orangeman, but I am not an effer. Will you apologise to me and to my community for his comments? I want you to look into that camera, First Minister for all, and tell those 1·9 million people why you have let them down.
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