Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

Debate contribution by Mr Edwin Poots on 7 December 2022.

MLA: Mr Edwin Poots
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 7 December 2022
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Assembly Business
Heading: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4178688

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I was happy to give way to Mr Murphy, and I am happy to respond to his intervention. Clearly, Mrs O'Neill did not have anything factual when she claimed that there was £420 million to give to the public.
We had a circumstance where Sinn Féin repeated, month after month after month, that there were hundreds of millions to give to the public when that did not exist and when, in reality, Minister Murphy was racking up debt that will roll into next year, which will ensure that that will be a difficult financial year. He also referred to the Budget that was produced —

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