Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the Northern Ireland Assembly am 1:45 pm ar 17 Mehefin 2024.

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Photo of Naomi Long Naomi Long Alliance 1:45, 17 Mehefin 2024

One of the great challenges that we have had is being able to determine what burden the new legislative arrangements will place on my Department. While the Government are clear that they believe that the legislation will alleviate some of the pressures that the Department has faced when handling the issues, no allowance has been made for, for example, the funding of some requests that have been made in addition to what we receive through the block grant. I can think of examples in which that is the case. I have, however, made it clear to all the organisations that work with and are funded by the Department of Justice that any work done for the ICRIR is a separate line of accounting and needs to be treated as such and that costs need to be recovered from the UK Government. Treasury rules are clear that whoever owns the policy pays the bill, and that has to apply in this case.