Stormont departments facing £600m budget shortfall: Murphy

Tracey McClean: These MLAs are only realising this now. We hard-working people could have told you that three years ago while they sat and still claimed their pay cheques. What other normal society would allow that? None.

Andrew Cee: We need to raise revenue. There are hard decisions that need to be taken.

Trevor Heaslip: MLAs will have to start to govern and earn their wages. If difficult decisions have to be made, do it. Stop running cap-in-hand to Downing Street.

Brian Aitken: Get Arlene to get onto her good buddy Boris. Surely, all that grovelling and boot-licking was worth something?

Celia Jelley: Maybe they shouldn’t have paid salaries for no work for three years.

Jim O’Hagan:

It’s time for these politicians to do their jobs and sort it out. If they had a real job, they would all be fired long ago.

Ivan Millen: Local and central government shortfalls must have built up over the years. Why are we in such a mess? Did no one think to tighten belts?

Samuel D Olphert: No doubt those least able to pay will be the first port of call.

Glen Campbell:

Tolls at the border. Cut government-funded expenses. Scrap ILA/Ulster-Scots dialect.

Ronald Galbraith: Incompetent negotiating with the government prior to agreeing the deal. Why would you agree a settlement when you haven’t secured the money? Buffoons.

Bob Parks: If it’s too much for them, perhaps they can go on paid holiday again.

Michelle Harper: Start by taking a cut of MLAs’ wages. After all, they got paid for three years for doing nothing.

Sylvia Lackemacher: increase coming.

Tax

Alfie McCrory: You have to ask why they went into government without negotiating about money.

Peter Montgomery: But, sure, the Celtic Tiger will save us. The South can’t wait to have us.