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 5774655
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The current offer that is on the table is £450 million resource for 2026-27; £400 million resource for 2027-28 and 2028-29; £50 million resource DEL per annum for transformation, which the Executive must match-fund; £50 million capital to invest in social housing; and the ability to keep 50% of any moneys raised by fraud and error in the benefits system up to a value of £25 million per annum. That is the offer that is currently on the table, and it is well short of meeting the pressures on the Executive. I missed the second part of your —.
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