evidence: The South Belfast MLA was speaking after it emerged that the money remains ‘unallocated’ in the January Monitoring Round. [...] "It is absolutely outrageous that Sinn Féin’s Finance Minister has left £100m unallocated when every household in the North is experiencing soaring energy costs, when food banks remain an everyday feature of too many people’s lives, when our hospital waiting lists continue to get longer. We have had 15 years of failure from his party but I can’t think of a clearer example of it than a Minister who would leave £100m unspent rather than allocating it to projects that can change the lives of the people we represent. [...] "The level of unallocated funding is largely a result of the notification from Treasury of £150 million of Covid funding in December combined with the high level of funding returned by Departments late in the financial year.