Debate contribution: Budget: Executive Failure

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 28 April 2026.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 28 April 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Budget: Executive Failure
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5509929

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Minister, you have, once again, utterly misrepresented everything that I said. I want the British Government to give us more money. I want a fair financial settlement for here. A better settlement for this place is more likely to happen when your party and the DUP act like parties in a grown-up, proper Government and stop squabbling. I am not the one who invited in the British Government to do something called an open-book exercise, which you said would strengthen our argument for funding for public services but has instead turned out to be a farce. Minister, I will ask you this again: given that you said in January of this year that the draft Budget, which you have now apparently disowned, was transformative for public services, when will we have a final Budget?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 2291/22-27.

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