Debate contribution: Public-sector Pay: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Report
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: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Report
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5786137
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Yes. The Fiscal Council was keen to make the point that the report was the start of a conversation, rather than definitive conclusions on those matters. It is an interesting area of study, and we have to understand cost variations in a detailed way. The headlines, as I said to Dr Aiken, are about how we deliver public services here differently. Our rurality is another matter, as is the fact, which we should be proud of, that we have not privatised many of our public services, as England and elsewhere have. That is right and proper.
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