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First Minister, the Budget is now beyond six months late. On your watch as First Minister, our public services have crumbled to the worst state that they have been in since devolution. What do you have to say to people who are languishing on waiting lists, suffering and in pain, due to the lack of a Budget? Is it…
A number of pieces of work are happening right now, looking at different scenarios and the situation in which we find ourselves. All of our energy and efforts right now, however, are on trying to secure additional funding. We will continue those conversations later this week; the Secretary of State will be here for…
I fully accept, First Minister, that you are trying to get a Budget across the line. Has she done a detailed assessment of the impact on front-line services if the Executive do not agree a Budget, and will she publish that detailed assessment?
Everything that we are doing right now is to get a Budget over the line. We have continued to make advances, but it is still not enough; it does not cut it. The challenges that we face, particularly in this financial year, are really acute and really stark. We all want to get enough funding on the table to allow us to…
Thank you for that question. You are absolutely right: I think that there is a collective will across the Executive to deliver on public-sector pay. Nurses, other Health and Social Care (HSC) staff, teachers and other public servants keep all our essential services running and should therefore not be left waiting for…
I thank the First Minister for her response. As we know, our public-sector workers, including our nurses, face huge uncertainty over their pay awards while the British Government continue to insist that no further funding is available. Will the First Minister outline her position on public-sector pay, explain why the…
Someone said "Good luck on Thursday": thank you very much to whomever said that. There has been extensive engagement over recent months, including with the Secretary of State, most recently on 16 October. There have also been meetings with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. We have been clear that, although we…
We all know what sort of armed forces Michelle O'Neill has sworn allegiance to. Given this morning's revelation that her Provisional IRA was a factor in the Chief Constable's decision to surrender the Garvaghy Road, does Ms O'Neill believe that she will still be in office come Wednesday to attend the Committee, or…
I say to that student that everything that we are doing has to build on, secure and ensure the peace that has been built over the past 28 years. We have to continue to look to the future and build on the progress, despite moments like this. When there are huge setbacks in community relations, we have to work even…
First Minister, just today a young school student said to me that community tensions as a result of Drumcree are his number-one concern. What actions are you undertaking to improve community relations in Portadown and across Northern Ireland? Who will you be working with to achieve that?
Thank you for that. Yes, I absolutely agree. As I said, I was proud to stand with the residents of the Garvaghy Road. Again, I pay tribute to the people of the Garvaghy Road for the resilience and steadfastness that they have shown through everything that they have gone through and been put through. It has not been of…
First Minister, your decision to stand with the people of the Garvaghy Road in solidarity with a community that is completely opposed to an unwanted and provocative Orange Order march was a hugely important act of leadership. Do you agree that some of the language that has been used by unionist politicians in response…
The issue here is between right and wrong. You may live in the past, and your party may live in the past, but the rest of us are trying to move towards a better and brighter future. When we stood on the Garvaghy Road, we did so to protect those residents' right to live free from fear and intimidation, and we did so to…
First Minister, do you understand that a vast number of people across Northern Ireland think that you have chosen to damage community relations and promote intolerance rather than uphold your ministerial Pledge of Office?
You went back, 30 years, through your promotion of intolerance, refusal to negotiate and total misrepresentation of the nature of a peaceful and legal procession.
First Minister, in my opinion, not only did you breach your ministerial pledge at paragraphs (ce): "to support the rule of law unequivocally in word and deed" through your illegal blocking of a legal parade, but you failed to uphold paragraph (ca): "to promote the interests of the whole community ... towards the goal…