Debate contribution: A5: Capital Funding

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 30 September 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 30 September 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: A5: Capital Funding
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5143197

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Minister, you talk about careful scrutiny. There are people who wish that you, as Minister, and perhaps your officials had given more careful scrutiny to the planning application that went in. We and the people who want the A5 built would perhaps then not have been in this situation in the first place. Specifically on the money that could be handed back, you are the Finance Minister and are responsible for that reallocation and underspend. How much will that be, and what will be done with it? Please be specific.

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1611/22-27.

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