Motion or amendment: Budgetary Pressures
Motion or amendment by Mr John Blair on .
- MLA
- Mr John Blair
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 3 September 2024
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Budgetary Pressures
- Assembly identifier
- Document 408791
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Budgetary Pressures
That this Assembly expresses its grave concern at the significant budgetary pressures facing the Executive; recognises the severe impact of these pressures on the delivery of, and investment in, public services, including policing and justice, health and social care, education, housing, infrastructure and our environment; notes that these pressures have arisen as a result of a failed policy of austerity at Westminster, financial mismanagement by the previous UK Government and underfunding of Northern Ireland below its level of relative need; agrees that, while the interim Fiscal Framework agreed with the UK Government was an important first step, the proposed 124 per cent relative need factor does not adequately reflect policing and justice need in Northern Ireland and the disproportionate squeeze on the justice budget; believes that a baselined fiscal floor set at a level greater than 124 per cent should be delivered without further delay; calls on the Minister of Finance to publish the Executive Sustainability Plan, including steps to tackle the cost of division in society, which leaves the Executive with hundreds of millions of pounds less to invest in public services each year; and further calls on the UK Government to depart from its austerity policy by reviewing the fiscal rules and pursuing a progressive taxation system.
211 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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- Ms Kellie Armstrong – record
- Ms Paula Bradshaw – record
- Mr Stewart Dickson – record
- Miss Nuala McAllister – record
- Mr Peter McReynolds – record
- Mr Nick Mathison – record
- Mr Eóin Tennyson – record
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