Debate contribution: Cost-of-living Crisis
Debate contribution by Mr Colin McGrath on .
- MLA
- Mr Colin McGrath
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 19 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Cost-of-living Crisis
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5796069
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Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. It sometimes gets a bit surreal in here. Children are starving, grannies are freezing, and families are not able to support themselves, yet all that we can do is lower the issue to a you-versus-us argument on small points rather than try to find a solution collectively. That was the spirit in which we tabled the motion. It was about trying to find some sort of collective approach —.
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