Debate contribution: Failure to Agree a Budget
Debate contribution by Mr John O'Dowd on .
- MLA
- Mr John O'Dowd
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 5 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Questions for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- Failure to Agree a Budget
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5774651
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Text
The cost of mutual aid is much higher here than it is elsewhere, because, as one of your Ministers has pointed out many times, mutual aid elsewhere crosses county lines. When coming here, officers have to come across the Irish Sea, and we have to put up bed and board for them, so there is an additional cost that the British Government should meet.
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