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  2. Debate contribution: Budget Bill: First Stage

    • Mr John O'Dowd SF
    • Executive Committee Business
    • As a minister

    I beg to introduce the Budget Bill [NIA 11/22-27], which is a Bill to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the years ending 31 March 2025 and 2026 (including, for the year ending 31 March 2025, income); to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of certain sums for the service of…

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  5. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    Minister, there was no implication that the spend was in any way underhand. It is just that if we look at the history of how the black box has been used, for me, who has been a member of the Finance Committee for a long time, it raises concern. As I said, it is good that the figure has come down from a billion pounds,…

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  7. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    • Mr John O'Dowd SF
    • Executive Committee Business
    • As a minister

    We can do things better for ourselves. Representatives around the Chamber know their communities better than anyone; they know the challenges and the opportunities that they face. Challenging as the stability of this place may be, having more fiscal powers would make us greater stakeholders in our present and in our…

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  8. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    I appreciate the Minister giving way, and I genuinely welcome the fact that he is up for debate on this. That is to his credit. He talks about coming forward with an alternative: I agree with him. That is why, as an Opposition, we have asked for money to be prioritised. We have tried to come up with alternatives. Does…

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  10. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    • Mr John O'Dowd SF
    • Executive Committee Business
    • As a minister

    Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle . I will leave you in anticipation about whether I will use the 53 minutes. It has been an interesting debate. I thank Members for their kind wishes for my new role. I have sat through many such debates in various positions, as both a member and a non-member of the…

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  11. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    It is concerning that most Committees have not had the time to properly scrutinise the SSEs. As I understand it, only the Finance and Infrastructure Committees have heard evidence from departmental officials on the SSEs, which is pretty telling. For DAERA, it is stated that there is: "£1.5m for the Environmental…

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  12. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    Thank you very much, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Members, I begin by drawing the House's attention to table 1 on the page marked with Roman numeral vii in the book that I have here. You will notice that the heading on the table tells us that the money that we are debating today is not in thousands but in the…

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  13. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    I thank the Member for giving way. I go back to his earlier remarks. On the prioritisation of Health and the state of the health service, we, as the Opposition, have always said that the Executive's priority needs to be to give Health not just a budget but a budget next to a clear plan to get waiting lists down. That…

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  15. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    As the UUP spokesperson on finance, I will speak about the spring Supplementary Estimates and the Vote on Account. Despite the many continuing reservations that I and other Members from our party will speak to, the Ulster Unionist Party will support the motions before us today and the Budget Bill at Second Stage.…

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  16. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    I thank the Minister of Finance for tabling the Supply resolutions for the spring Supplementary Estimates, the Vote on Account and the 2023-24 Excesses. I congratulate him on his new ministerial post and on sitting through what will be one of many boring Budget debates. I thank the Department of Finance and all the…

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  17. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    I speak as a DUP member of the Committee for Communities and the Committee for the Executive Office. I take the opportunity to welcome the Finance Minister to his new post. The three Supply resolution motions before us today relate to the finances for the last financial year, this financial year and the next financial…

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  18. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    Will the Member agree that, when it comes to what are often called "difficult decisions" — cuts, if you prefer — the trade-off for the public and, indeed, the people working in those services is supposed to be that the Minister and the Executive produce a plan that will lead to, as Diane Dodds mentioned, shorter…

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  20. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    I wish the Minister well in his new role in the Department of Finance and with the challenges that he will undoubtedly have in the time ahead. Finances have long been the subject of scrutiny for those who debate the ability or the long-term viability of this place and how we spend our money. If we want this place to…

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  21. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    I welcome the opportunity to speak as a DUP member of the Infrastructure Committee on the important issue of the spring Supplementary Estimates. There is no doubt that infrastructure is a vital economic driver and social enabler across our country. It is the foundation that underpins the economic and social fabric of…

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  22. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    • Ms Connie Egan Alliance
    • Executive Committee Business

    I congratulate the Minister on his new role and wish him well in it. I will make a few short remarks on the Supply resolutions in my capacity as the Alliance Party's spokesperson on justice. From the beginning, this financial year was marked as challenging — a time for tough decisions, stringent, sustainable spending…

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  24. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    I rise as the DUP's health spokesperson to make a few remarks on the 2024-25 budget for Health. The Health budget of 2024-25 saw huge pressures in Health but also significant in-year allocations. That allowed the Minister to meet the pay requirements for HSC staff. We should say that and congratulate the Minister when…

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  25. Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25

    To be very clear: the Committee has asked for a review of the system for allocating minor works capital funding, so that will clearly take in more than one school. I do not underestimate the scale of the challenge facing the Education Minister. He has set out many times the financial pressures that his Department…

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