Debate contribution: Public-sector Pay
Debate contribution by Mr John O'Dowd on .
- MLA
- Mr John O'Dowd
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 12 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Public-sector Pay
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5786109
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As I said, I am exploring all avenues, including engaging with the Executive's legal advisers and my Department's legal advisers to see what methods we can use to secure and deliver pay uplifts for public-sector workers. I continue to do that. The ideal way in which to do so would be to secure a Budget, but we would also have to have the money in that Budget to pay those workers. We have not been successful in balancing the two things thus far.
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