Motion or amendment: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division
Motion or amendment by Mr Nick Mathison on .
- MLA
- Mr Nick Mathison
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 4 March 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division
- Assembly identifier
- Document 431782
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Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division
That this Assembly expresses grave concern at the cost of division in Northern Ireland, resulting in duplication of public services, additional policing and justice costs and foregone economic opportunities; notes that the cost of division was estimated to be up to £833 million per year by Ulster University’s Economic Policy Centre in 2016; believes that is an unaffordable waste of the Executive’s scarce budget and would be better invested in tackling waiting lists, building social homes, improving education provision, increasing police officer numbers and delivering other priorities shared by local communities; further believes that there should be an updated assessment of the cost of division; calls on the Minister of Finance to include a statutory duty on the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council to assess the cost of division; and further calls on the Executive to develop a cross-departmental plan to tackle the financial and societal impacts of division in Northern Ireland.
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