Debate contribution: Storm Éowyn: Compensation

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 18 March 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 18 March 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Storm Éowyn: Compensation
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4860705

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With respect, First Minister, neither you nor the deputy First Minister is Advice NI. It is not your job simply to be articulate and to make cases; it is your job to lead. When thousands of people heard you, the deputy First Minister and the then Economy Minister say that compensation should be paid, it created an expectation. Those people have been let down. Will you perhaps reflect that, in the future, governing takes more than simply warm words?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1141/22-27.

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