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All of Dr Caoimhe Archibald’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
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Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank all the Members and Committee Chairs for their participation in the debate. I thank the Members who were supportive of the Budget proposals for their input, and I have listened with interest to Members who have spoken against the Budget. I intend to use most of my time to respond…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2024-25
I beg to move The restoration of the Executive on 3 February meant that there was an exceptionally tight time frame in which to develop the Budget. Despite the financial package that accompanied restoration, it was always clear that this was going to be an incredibly challenging Budget. The time frame for this Budget…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2024-25
Budget 2024-25 That this Assembly approves the programme of expenditure proposals for 2024-25 as announced by the Minister of Finance on 25 April 2024 and set out in the Budget document laid before the Assembly on 20 May 2024.
Assessment details for Motion or amendment: Budget 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: Budget 2024-25
Thank you. I thank the sponsors of the motion for bringing it to the Floor. This is an issue that deserves further consideration by us, as policymakers. The substantive law on divorce, for which my Department holds responsibility, in the context of private family law, has remained untouched since the matrimonial…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: No-fault Divorce Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: No-fault Divorce
I thank Members for their useful comments on the order and on the wider issues relating to the extension of the exemption in rural areas. The scheme is, as things stand, worth continuing for those who live in isolated rural communities and who still depend on the availability of cash from ATMs. We all appreciate the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
I beg to move The order reintroduces the rural ATM rates exemption scheme for the 2024-25 rating year. The exemption lapsed in the absence of an Executive and an Assembly in 2023, when affirmative resolution legislation could not be passed. Today's order addresses that by restoring the scheme to operation and ensuring…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
I thank the Chair of the Finance Committee and the Members who contributed to the debate. This scheme is worth reintroducing because it can breathe new life into our high streets, after what has been a difficult time for many businesses, while, at the same time, helping traders old and new deal with the cost of doing…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
I beg to move Before I deal with the statutory rule (SR), I will set out some background to the measure. The scheme was designed by my Department as an amendment to the Rates (Amendment) Act 2012, following a proposal by Belfast Chamber of Commerce. At that time, the economy was coming out of the global downturn, and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
I welcome the opportunity to speak about this important issue. Tourism provides jobs for 75,000 people in the North, and 70% of those are outside Belfast. Therefore, that sector is key to delivering regionally balanced economic development, which is one of the key priorities for the Economy Minister, and supports jobs…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: VAT for Hospitality Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: VAT for Hospitality
Given the positive impact of the back in business scheme, I am glad to advise that legislation to restore it was made by my Department at the end of March. That has been cleared by the Finance Committee, and the Assembly will debate it, I believe, next week. I hope that the Chamber will support the reinstatement of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Towns and High Streets: Business Incentives Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Towns and High Streets: Business Incentives
I am certainly keen to look at that, but you will be aware of some of the restrictions around the use of financial transactions capital. Therefore, we are dependent on Departments coming forward with their ideas for what they would like to spend it on and working with other organisations on being able to do that. I am…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Financial Transactions Capital 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Financial Transactions Capital 2024-25
Obviously, Departments will have an opportunity to bid in year for additional money, including financial transactions capital, and I encourage Departments to come forward with bids for financial transactions capital. It is an area where we sometimes face challenges in spending, and obviously we want to see full…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Financial Transactions Capital 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Financial Transactions Capital 2024-25
People who often encounter barriers to employment, people with learning disabilities and people without educational qualifications who have faced barriers in their education journey can benefit from the employment and training opportunities that are provided by social value in public contracts. The impact on those…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Public Procurement: Social Value Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Public Procurement: Social Value
Social value in public contracts can make a real difference, particularly to the lives of some of the most disadvantaged people in society. Embedding social value in public procurement provides a significant opportunity to meaningfully contribute to economic, environmental and social outcomes. To date, some of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Public Procurement: Social Value Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Public Procurement: Social Value
Again, I do not have that information in front of me and I do not know the figure off the top of my head, but I will be happy to share it with the Member.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Climate Change: Budget Bids/Allocations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Climate Change: Budget Bids/Allocations
I am not sure that I have the information in front of me on the bids that were made for the Budget, but I am happy to write to the Member on that point.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Climate Change: Budget Bids/Allocations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Climate Change: Budget Bids/Allocations
The Civil Service is committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer. It is important that the Civil Service is an example. It has a range of supports and family-friendly policies in place, including alternative working, which allows for alternative or flexible working patterns in the Civil Service. That includes…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Childcare: Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Childcare: Budget
It is important to say that we need to get childcare right. It plays a vital role in the economy. We need to support childcare providers, workers and families. Affordable childcare is particularly important in facilitating women's access to the labour market. I am keen to see work on the new childcare strategy…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Childcare: Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Childcare: Budget
I will raise the huge challenges that face the Budget when I meet Treasury. I have impressed upon Treasury and the shadow Secretary of State the need for the Executive to be in a position to set a multi-year Budget. Obviously, that is dependent on the spending review period that the Westminster Government choose. We…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Junior Doctors’ Pay Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Junior Doctors’ Pay
I have engaged with the Health Minister, as I have with all Ministers, in the Budget process. Obviously, the Health Minister raised the issue of pay, the challenges that would be faced in year and the ongoing challenges that would be faced in respect of junior doctors, who, clearly, need to have their demands looked…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Junior Doctors’ Pay Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Junior Doctors’ Pay
I have undertaken detailed engagement with the manufacturing sector since taking up post. I have met sectoral representatives at round-table meetings on business rates generally and in meetings that have focused on the sector. Over the past two weeks, I have visited manufacturers in the factory environment in order to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Manufacturing Sector: Support Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Manufacturing Sector: Support
The Executive are providing £71·5 million of support in 2024-25 through industrial derating for over 4,400 local manufacturing properties. That measure is not provided in England, Scotland or Wales. The recipients are by no means all large companies; in fact, over 2,500 recipients of industrial derating fall under the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Manufacturing Sector: Support Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Manufacturing Sector: Support
My Department developed new guidance for the Civil Service in June 2022 for official information that is held in non-corporate communication channels. That guidance sets out when non-corporate devices or communication channels may be used for official business and how any official information, including WhatsApp…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: RHI Inquiry: Implementation of Recommendations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: RHI Inquiry: Implementation of Recommendations
The COVID inquiry is ongoing and taking evidence. Clearly, while that inquiry's important work continues, I do not want to get into a running commentary about specific evidence. That was, obviously, a very challenging time for everyone, but it was particularly traumatic for those people who lost loved ones. I fully…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: RHI Inquiry: Implementation of Recommendations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: RHI Inquiry: Implementation of Recommendations
That is not information that I have in front of me. I am happy to write to the Member if we are able to provide that information. I am not sure that it is something that we would have, but I am happy to clarify that with him.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rate Collection: High Street Businesses Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rate Collection: High Street Businesses
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