I know that things can be said, and there is a range of views, but I think I r for everybody on the DUP Benches when I say that over the last number of years, our civil servants in Northern Ireland and across have been working incredibly hard in
very difficult circumstances. I can say that because I see it on a week-to-week basis—I wish it was a day-to-day basis, but I am stuck over here most of the time—because my husband is a senior civil servant. I think I speak for all of us when I say that we recognise the incredible hard work that they have done under difficult circumstances, and we applaud them for that.