Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 16 September 2024.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 16 September 2024
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4531954

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Minister, we have now been waiting more than seven months for meaningful progress on the inclusion strategies. A few months ago, when we had an Opposition day focused on poverty, the Opposition were dismissed and told that lots of work was happening in this area, but, as of now, we have not seen a single strategy published. We have not seen the anti-poverty strategy, the gender strategy, the disability strategy or the strategy on sexual orientation. Obviously, we did not get any detail in the Programme for Government about when they will be published. Can you be specific today and give me dates of when one or possibly all of those strategies will be published?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 766/22-27.

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