Debate contribution: Alliance Party: Deputy Leader

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 3 March 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 3 March 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Alliance Party: Deputy Leader
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4825927

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I asked that question, First Minister, because, from the look of the Programme for Government document, which shows zero progress on Casement — it has exactly the same language as in the draft Programme for Government — zero progress on the Irish language, DUP/Tory bodies such as the East-West Council and Intertrade UK being placed on the same footing as Good Friday Agreement bodies such as InterTradeIreland and the North/South Ministerial Council and much less ambition than the Irish Government's Programme for Government on shared island or cross-border services, people will conclude that the DUP is running rings around you and your party. Tell us this: who is taking whom for a fool? Is the DUP taking your party for fools, or is your party taking the rest of us for fools?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1081/22-27.

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