Debate contribution: Government Peformance

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 27 May 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 27 May 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Government Peformance
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4972409

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The reason that I ask, First Minister, is that your party is making robust criticisms, many of which, perhaps, are legitimate, about performance in the South, but when it comes to social housing in the North, the Chartered Institute of Housing has warned today that there could be a £100 million shortfall in social housing investment. There is no plan for investing in waste water. In fact, there is denial from your colleagues that there is even a problem. There are chaotic, contradictory statements on the delivery of North/South infrastructure. You mentioned the lack of fiscal powers here, but your colleague the Finance Minister does not seem to want to take any new fiscal powers. Why is there a contradiction and a difference between the robust way that your party holds the Government to account in the South and the idea that you simply want people in the North to accept inaction and drift?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1341/22-27.

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