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All of Mr Conor Murphy’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
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Legislative Consent Motion: Great British Energy Bill That this Assembly endorses the principle of the extension of the provisions of the Great British Energy Bill to Northern Ireland.
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Assessment details for Motion or amendment: Legislative Consent Motion: Great British Energy Bill Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: Legislative Consent Motion: Great British Energy Bill
Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I welcome the opportunity to speak to the motion. Although the Department of Education leads on childcare, it is a priority for the Executive as a whole. When setting the Budget for this financial year, the Executive earmarked an additional £25 million for…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Childcare Providers: Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Childcare Providers: Funding
The whole region will benefit. There are something like 17 actions. We brought together a wide range of people from the industry. I have a firm view, which I have always had, that, if you are going to design policies and action plans, you need to co-design those with people in the industry at the coalface who know…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tourism Vision and Action Plan Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tourism Vision and Action Plan
It certainly increases the challenge. The difficulty is that that was introduced with no compensatory measures to support small businesses. It was, basically, introduced as a quick fix in one area without, in our view, any consideration of a region such as this in particular, where small and medium enterprises employ…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Good Jobs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Good Jobs
I do not have an assessment of the proportion of good jobs, but, as I said, we set four priorities across the Department on productivity and promoting good jobs that all of its agencies have also undertaken and that are now part of the draft Programme for Government, which, hopefully, will be finalised in the near…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Good Jobs Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Good Jobs
As I mentioned in answer to one of the questions on skills, there are specific programmes for women in the skills programme. We have had many engagements with people who represent women in employment and other women's interest groups. People with disabilities, young people and women comprise a higher proportion of the…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
The Member's point is a critical one, because we have a situation in which there are very high levels of employment and low levels of unemployment, yet economic inactivity remains at a high level — I think that we said 26·5% — on average across the North. The further north and west that one goes, the percentage goes…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
As I said in response to a previous question, the expansion to 10,000 students for the Magee project was a New Decade, New Approach (NDNA) commitment. All parties that were turning into Executive parties at that stage were committed to it, as were both Governments, who also had a contribution to make in that regard,…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Economy: Budget 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Economy: Budget 2025-26
The short answer is this: very challenging. Like, I have no doubt, most Departments, we got much less than what we bid for. That will present real challenges for us in areas such as skills and higher and further education, as well as for everything else that the Department is committed to supporting in the time ahead.…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Economy: Budget 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Economy: Budget 2025-26
As I stand here today, I cannot. I would need to get some sense of its effectiveness. I am, however, happy to write to the Member in the time ahead. We will consider any schemes that are effective or working well and that we can afford to do. Affordability is a key issue for us. One then has to set that against the…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Energy Strategy: Progress Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Energy Strategy: Progress
We have done an energy efficiency scheme for businesses through Invest NI, and we want to look at what more we can do for domestic customers. The challenge, as ever, for every Department is to have the finances to be able to do those things. Executive targets for reducing carbon emissions will include the need for…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Energy Strategy: Progress Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Energy Strategy: Progress
The Finance Minister will bring rates proposals to the Executive shortly, and I think that she intends to provide as much support as she can to the business community. When I was the Minister of Finance, we reduced the business rate by 18% because we recognised that it was a high burden. The vast bulk of our…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Support for Small Businesses Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Support for Small Businesses
Just last week, we launched the task force report on tourism and hospitality, in which there is an ambition to grow that industry and its income. I hope that, in doing that, we will secure employment for people and businesses in that sector. I have no doubt that these are challenging times. We came out of COVID, with…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Support for Small Businesses Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Support for Small Businesses
Just last week, I engaged with the Labour Relations Agency (LRA) forum, on which a number of business organisations are represented. I did not hear that level of concern, but, if the Member has, we will endeavour to engage on that. The report to the Committee last week was, if you like, a summation report on the…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: ‘Good Jobs’ Employment Rights Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ‘Good Jobs’ Employment Rights Bill
The 'good jobs' employment rights consultation proposed to introduce the right to up to one week of leave pro rata for unpaid eligible carers over a rolling 12-month period, to provide care for a family member or other dependant who has a longer-term or otherwise significant care need. We will continue to engage on…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: ‘Good Jobs’ Employment Rights Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ‘Good Jobs’ Employment Rights Bill
I held my 'good jobs' employment rights public consultation between 1 July and 30 September 2024. My officials and I have engaged constructively with stakeholders throughout. My consultation focused on four key aspects of a 'good job': terms of employment; pay and benefits; voice and representation; and work-life…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: ‘Good Jobs’ Employment Rights Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ‘Good Jobs’ Employment Rights Bill
We engage with industry — with clusters and with individual companies — to ensure that we have the bespoke training, through, for example, skills academies, that is needed for a particular area in order to create a skills pipeline for the people who operate in that area. The skills fund aligns with my economic plans.…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Skills Shortages Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Skills Shortages
I have had a number of meetings with the manufacturing sector in Mid Ulster over the past year or 18 months, most recently last November. It is doing a remarkable job, and its organisation through the board of Manufacturing and Engineering Growth and Advancement (MEGA) adds strength to what it is delivering. We…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Skills Shortages Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Skills Shortages
The latest economic evidence shows that the local labour market continues to remain very challenging, with an annual undersupply of 4,300 workers, unemployment remaining historically low at 1·6%, economic inactivity remaining high at 26·5% and many sectors reporting recruitment challenges. With over 90% of the 2030…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Skills Shortages Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Skills Shortages
I agree with the First Minister in that we are putting significant effort and resources into those plans. We want to ensure that tourism, which the question relates to, has an opportunity, through the priorities that I have set in the Department and that are now included in the Programme for Government, to improve…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tourism Action Plan: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tourism Action Plan: Update
I had a very constructive meeting with several members of the tourism cluster, and the Department and Tourism NI recognise the value of all tourism clusters in the North, which raise the profile of those destinations and enhance the capability of tourism providers. Tourism NI has worked closely with a number of…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tourism Action Plan: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tourism Action Plan: Update
I am pleased to confirm that I launched my tourism vision and action plan on Wednesday 15 January. The final document is available on the Department's website. The vision and action plan sets out how we plan to grow our tourism sector over the next 10 years, and I have set a strategic goal that tourism expenditure…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tourism Action Plan: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tourism Action Plan: Update
I hope that the research that has been done is not borne out. I hope that events such as the Open on the north coast are more successful than previous events there, and all the plans are in place to try to do that. We will support that, because, despite the setback with the approach of the Home Office, we will try to…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tourism: ETA Impact Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tourism: ETA Impact
The scheme is to be implemented by the British Home Office, which has been a bit vague about how it intends to enforce it. It talked about no checks when crossing the border, which would be welcome, and intelligence-led enforcement of the scheme. I am not quite sure what that means, and, despite our many engagements…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tourism: ETA Impact Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tourism: ETA Impact
I am not sure that the Speaker judges the appropriateness of questions. The tourism action plan continues to support the development of hotels outside the Belfast area. It ensures that there is an adequate mix and scale of tourist accommodation across the North that meets visitors' expectations. The Department for the…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tourism: ETA Impact Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tourism: ETA Impact
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