Debate contribution: Multi-year Budget

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 8 December 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 8 December 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Multi-year Budget
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5284608

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Deputy First Minister, there is nothing laboured about holding you to account for what your party does. Today, you have failed to give me a commitment on a multi-year Budget and on institutional reform, both of which are essential. Your party claims to want to make Northern Ireland work, but your actions suggest anything but that. In sincerely wishing you and your colleagues a merry Christmas, may I say that, if a ghost appears before you or your colleagues on Christmas Eve — the ghost of Christmas yet to come — and shows you a vision of a new Ireland, you should reflect on whether your party's actions have helped to hasten the arrival of that day?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1861/22-27.

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