Emma Little-Pengelly: People shouldn't pay more for poor services

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly says revenue-raising proposals will but pressure on "hard-pressed" families

The Democratic Unionist Party member said she has serious concerns about how revenue-raising measures may place pressure on struggling families.More than £1bn is to be used for "stabilisation" of public services. "Many of those families are the very same families who are trying to bring up children, stay in work, get childcare. We know how much financial pressure these families are under," she added.

She said the executive needed to be "looking at additional support such as childcare to support those families"."The quality of our public services is not up to scratch and asking people right now to pay more for poor public services, I don't think is a sustainable decision," she added.Meanwhile, Economy Minister Conor Murphy said that he is opposed to increasing tuition fees for university students in Northern Ireland.

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