Debate contribution: Executive Finances
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
- Executive Finances
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5786195
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As with any negotiation, both sides have to approach it with a constructive mindset. The Executive are doing that. We have set out plans of how we see reform and efficiencies. However, the amount of money on the table at this stage simply does not meet the basic pressures that the Executive face. No one from the Government, whether it be the Secretary of State or the Treasury, has been able to answer the question that I keep putting to them, which is this: why do you fund Scotland at £3 billion above its level of need, Wales at £1 billion above its level of need and us at below our level of need? It is about fairness and equality. No one from the Government side has been able to respond to that.
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