No, I want to make progress.

I have absolutely no doubt that this is a difficult Budget for all Departments. The Health budget accounts for 52% of the total block grant to Northern Ireland and, in the Budget allocation, was awarded over 50% of the additional funding that was made available to Northern Ireland. In the last couple of years, the Health budget has seen a considerable increase in its allocation, yet some in the House have tried to indicate something different by comparing an end-of-year settlement with a beginning-of-year settlement. I warn Members: our constituents are not fooled by that nonsense and are clear that, whatever the problems in health are, that kind of wrangling is of little use to them. They want the issue sorted, and they are tired of the nonsense.

I welcome the additional £122 million from the June monitoring process. As my colleague said, that represents about 57% of the funding that was available. I look forward to the Health Minister giving an update on the impact of the additional funding, just as the previous Health Minister was so keen to give us his letter on the funding gap. I hope that the new Health Minister will work with Executive colleagues to secure more funding from Treasury and not continue the sham fight on the issue.

As colleagues have said, it was my party leader, Gavin Robinson, who started the work on getting a better settlement from His Majesty's Treasury because he recognised that Northern Ireland was not funded on the basis of need. We now have a more generous settlement, but, if we are to rebuild our public services and really make them fit for purpose, it will take all of us in the House working together to secure that objective of additional finance.

That is work in progress, and I know that the MPs from my party will take it up with renewed vigour after the general election.