首相安迪·伯恩汉姆敦促斯托蒙特的行政机构各党在决定是否接受额外拨款、以便就本年度预算达成协议时保持“现实”。
The Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called on the executive parties at Stormont to be "realistic" when it comes to deciding whether to accept an offer of extra money to help agree a budget this year.
他说自己已经“仔细听取”了各党的意见，也听到了他们对资金缺口的担忧，但他补充说，自己并没有“无限资金”。
He said he had "listened carefully" to them and heard their concerns about a funding shortfall, but added that he did not have "unlimited funds".
政府已提议在未来三年向行政机构额外拨款15亿英镑，以帮助其稳定财政状况，但各党表示，这笔资金远不足以满足其实现收支平衡所需的金额。
The government has offered the executive £1.5bn over the next three years in extra funding to help stabilise its finances, but parties have said it does not touch the sides of what they need to break even.
教育部长保罗·吉万警告，北爱尔兰事务大臣提出的预算“最后通牒”“不会有利于促成稳定的结果”。
Education Minister Paul Givan warned that a budget "ultimatum" offered by the Northern Ireland Secretary "isn't going to bode well for trying to get a settled outcome".
但伯恩汉姆表示，他认为各党已经获得了一份“公平而优惠的协议”。
But Burnham said he believed the parties had been offered a "fair and good deal".
当有人告知首相，斯托蒙特财政部长约翰·奥多德称行政机构三年内需要接近50亿英镑时，他回应：“我们的资金非常紧张，目前正与白宫各部门进行艰难磋商。”“现在根本不存在我可以随手拿出去花的余钱。这根本不存在。”他补充道。
When it was put to the prime minister that Stormont's Finance Minister John O'Dowd said the executive needs closer to £5bn over three years, he replied: "We are very tight, and I'm having difficult discussions with all parts of Whitehall at this moment in time." "There is not there is not a situation where there is money hanging around where I can just hand it out. It just doesn't exist," he added.
“你不能没完没了地移动球门柱，必须现实一点。”吉万表示，与英国政府的谈判正进入“无法达成协议的领域”。此前，克里斯·布莱恩特爵士周四表示，不会对其150万英镑的报价作出任何改善。克里斯爵士称，没有“更多资金”可供提供，并要求行政机构各党在下周四前作出回应。
"You can't endlessly then move the goalposts, you've just got to be realistic." Givan said negotiations with the UK Government were entering "no-deal territory", after Sir Chris Bryant said on Thursday there would be no improvement on his £1.5m offer Sir Chris said there was "no more money" available and has given executive parties until next Thursday to respond.
吉万表示，即使其他所有部门都拿不到任何资金，当前预算报价也无法为本财年为教育部提供全部所需资金。
Givan said the current budget offer could not provide full funding for the Department of Education for this financial year, even if no other department received any money.
民主统一党（DUP）部长表示，行政机构今年承受的整体压力及超支成本经计算为16亿英镑。据估计，未来两年每年也需要同等数额的资金。
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) minister said the cost of overall pressures and overspends for the executive this year had been calculated at £1.6bn It is estimated the same figure would be required for each of the next two years.
吉文在BBC北爱尔兰广播的《乌尔斯特早安》节目中表示，克里斯爵士目前提出的方案“还差得很远”，并说：“如果国务大臣继续采取他昨天提出的做法，那么局势就会逐渐走向无协议。”
Sir Chris's current offer "doesn't even come close", Givan told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme "If the secretary of state continues to take the approach that he outlined yesterday, then it is moving to a no-deal territory."
他补充道：“现在他又抛出这样的最后通牒。如果这就是他的谈判方式，那么要争取达成妥善的解决方案恐怕不会乐观，而这正是北爱尔兰人民所需要的。”吉文说，问题的根本核心是北爱尔兰、苏格兰和威尔士之间在资金拨付公式上的差异，必须对此加以解决。
He added: "Now he puts down this ultimatum and if that is his style of negotiation, then it isn't going to bode well for trying to get a settled outcome, which is what the people of Northern Ireland need." Givan said the fundamental core of the issue was a funding formula discrepancy between Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, which he said had to be addressed.
他说，克里斯爵士提出的任何方案都不应“掩盖现行拨付公式的缺陷”，而应“触及挑战的核心……一项不公平的资金拨付公式，正是它造成我们的行政当局陷入财政问题的循环”。
He said any offers from Sir Chris should not "mask the failures in the current formula" and instead should "get to the core of the challenge… an unfair funding formula which has created this cycle of financial problems for our executive".
财政部长约翰·奥多德说，克里斯爵士及其历任前任都“无法反驳我们的论点：与苏格兰和威尔士相比，我们获得的拨款不足”。
Finance Minister John O'Dowd said Sir Chris and his predecessors had been "unable to refute our argument that we are underfunded compared to Scotland and Wales".
新芬党议会议员表示，国务大臣最终提出报价的方式“并未回应这场争议的核心问题”。
The Sinn Féin assembly member said the secretary of state's final offer approach wasn't "a response to the fundamental problem at the centre of this argument".
“这关乎公平和平等，也关乎在税款回报问题上，至少给予当地人一些尊重。”他接受《乌尔斯特早安》采访时说。
The Sinn Féin assembly member said the secretary of state's final offer approach wasn't "a response to the fundamental problem at the centre of this argument".
他补充说：“如果北爱尔兰的资金安排能与威尔士持平，我们就能应对绝大多数财政压力。”
"It's about fairness and equality and about treating people here with a modicum of respect even, in terms of how they get a return on their taxes," he told Good Morning Ulster.
奥多德说，当前“在没有预算的情况下”，最重要的任务是找到一种办法，为公共部门工作人员加薪。
If Northern Ireland's funding arrangement was equal to Wales', "we would be able to meet the vast majority of our pressures", he added.
“我们首先必须找到一种技术性机制……然后必须筹措一笔足够的资金，用来向我们的公共部门工作人员支付薪酬。”同样在《乌尔斯特早安》节目中，公共政策智库Pivotal的安·瓦特表示，到目前为止，北爱尔兰的谈判策略一直十分成功，迫使英国政府两次提高报价。“他们已经作出了很大让步。”她说。
O'Dowd said the biggest priority now, "in the absence of a budget", was to find a way to give public sector workers a pay increase. "First we have to find a technical mechanism… then we have to find a quantum of funding to pay our public sector workers." Also speaking on Good Morning Ulster, Ann Watt, from the public policy think tank Pivotal, said Northern Ireland's negotiating strategy had so far been successful, forcing two increased offers from the British government.
她说，英国政府已经“采取了实质性举措”，如今斯托蒙特需要“制定计划，明确他们打算做什么”。
"They've moved a lot," she said. She said the UK government had "moved significantly", and now Stormont needed to "put together a plan of what are they going to do".
瓦特解释了克里斯爵士所承诺资金的使用方式，并概述称，北爱尔兰最大的开支之一是“公共部门就业规模远高于英国其他地区”。
Watt explained how Sir Chris's offer would be spent, and outlined that one of Northern Ireland's biggest costs was "far higher employment in the public sector than elsewhere in the UK".
“这15亿英镑将在三年内支出，因此每年约为5.25亿英镑……其中大部分用于维持公共服务日常运转。”她说，这意味着要“提供医疗、教育、基础设施、环境保护等服务”。
"That £1.5bn is over three years, so around £525m per year... and that is mostly spent on day-to-day costs of running public services." This, she said, meant "delivering health, education, infrastructure, the environment and so on".
瓦特说，其中约4.5亿英镑将用于这一主要用途，其余资金则用于推动公共服务现代化、建设社会住房以及打击福利欺诈。
Around £450m would be spent for that primary purpose, said Watt, with the remainder used for modernising public services, building social housing, and tackling benefits fraud.
“但与北爱尔兰行政当局所称的资金需求相比，这笔钱仍远远不够。”瓦特说。
"But that money is well, well short of what the executive says it needs," said Watt.