Public Expenditure: Draft Budget 2021-22

Part of Ministerial Statement – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 6:30 pm on 18 January 2021.

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Photo of Conor Murphy Conor Murphy Sinn Féin 6:30, 18 January 2021

I have no reason to believe that that commitment will not be met. It certainly will operate on the basis that it can, should and will be met by the Secretary of State. We got recent correspondence from the Treasury on the Strule campus, which you know is a key shared education project for the Department of Education, with some clarity in moving forward, and that is good news. We wanted and should have been able to include in our Budget the figures for the money that the NIO has authority for. Those did not come through in time to do that, but our intention is to have them cleared and in the final paper.