Debate contribution: Exclusion of the First Minister from Office under Section 30 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998
Debate contribution by Mrs Sinéad Ennis on .
- MLA
- Mrs Sinéad Ennis
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 12 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Assembly Business
- Heading
- Exclusion of the First Minister from Office under Section 30 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5786778
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Text
Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle.
It really takes an obscene lack of self-awareness for the so-called leaders of political unionism in the Assembly to attempt to exclude four democratically elected Sinn Féin Ministers when they have not one vote between them. For Emma Little-Pengelly, who has no votes, Jon Burrows, who has no votes, and Timothy Gaston, who has — you guessed it — no votes to have the absolute brass neck to suggest that Sinn Féin Ministers with a combined mandate of 34,921 votes
do not enjoy the confidence of people
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