Treasury support is needed to ease 'significant emerging pressures' from rising costs, conormurphysf writes in a joint letter with the Scotland and Wales finance ministers
Stormont's finance minister has written a joint letter with his counterparts in Scotland and Wales, asking the chancellor for extra support to tackle rising costs.
"It's important when the three finance ministers from each of the devolved areas agree on these matters that we communicate jointly to the Treasury to try and maximise the impact of those requests," he added."They have told us they make take some further steps in relation to the cost of living in the autumn statement but that could be in late November.
Mr Murphy and his officials have been holding discussions with the Treasury about how the discount can be applied in Northern Ireland."We need a fair and appropriate response on public sector pay and urge you to give firmer assurances on sensible pay uplifts for our public sector workers," it outlined.
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