Debate contribution: Place-Name Project
Debate contribution by Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly on .
- MLA
- Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 11 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Place-Name Project
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5523847
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It is disappointing that we hear the attempt time and time again to stir up issues from the past to paint a particular picture. It is distraction and deflection from the fact that, for Ministers in the Member's party, there is a real struggle when it comes to delivery in some Departments. I will take the example of the A5, which sits with the Department for Infrastructure. I have put a solution to that issue to the Minister for Infrastructure: rather than waiting for her fate to be decided in the courts, we can take action to amend that legislation and provide certainty to allow those roads to go ahead. I say this to the Member: instead of coming into the Chamber to play politics, deflect and distract, I advise her to speak to her colleagues about getting on with delivery. The Education Minister and the Communities Minister from my party can do that, so the Member and her colleagues should talk about delivery instead of criticising other people.
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