Budget ‘crucial and critical’ to Stormont finances, says minister

Asked when the Executive would set a budget if the Treasury maintained its current position, Mr O’Dowd said: “We have to wait the outcome of today’s announcements by the Chancellor, and to see if there is any Barnett consequentials, and the quantum of those Barnett consequentials, and then the Executive will have to sit down and make decisions on the way forward.

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