Debate contribution: Maze/Long Kesh: Regeneration

Debate contribution by Mr David Honeyford on 19 January 2026.

MLA: Mr David Honeyford
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 19 January 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Maze/Long Kesh: Regeneration
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5322137

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The Maze/Long Kesh site shows how vetoes are being used to block progress completely. Power-sharing was designed to help us work through difficult issues to share this place, not to place them indefinitely in the too-difficult-to-deal-with drawer. Does the First Minister accept that, while safeguards are essential, permanent vetoes undermine public confidence in the Executive? How will she and the deputy First Minister start to deliver the regeneration of the Maze/Long Kesh site, while reassuring communities, bringing them together and taking them on that journey?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2924/22-27.

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