Chris Heaton-Harris is due to meet the main parties at Hillsborough Castle on Thursday to discuss the budgetary picture
It had been anticipated this would have been deducted from this year’s block grant.
“This will provide some protection to frontline public services in Northern Ireland from having to take the most severe reductions. However, difficult decisions remain in order to live within the funding available. The total non ring-fenced resource budget for day-to-day costs is 14.211 billion, down on the £14.269 billion baseline of 2022/23.
“Everybody wants to get back into Stormont, but has to be on the right foundations. That’s what the DUP wants. I think there’s a pathway to getting back, but it has to be right,” she told RTÉ radio’s News at One.
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