All of Mr Conor Murphy’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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Invest NI is already working in that space, with both the MoD and the ADS trade association, to lobby for additional spend and facilitate companies that want to get into that area of work. That work will continue.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ministry of Defence Contracts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ministry of Defence Contracts
The aerospace sector has over 100 companies, employs 8,000 workers and contributes an estimated £1·9 billion to the local economy. Invest NI, supported by the Department, engages with the MoD across several forums. In 2022-23, MoD spend per head was £100 here, compared with £380 in Scotland and England and £250 in…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ministry of Defence Contracts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ministry of Defence Contracts
As, I am sure, the Member will understand, it will lie primarily in the remit of the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to assist people to get land and farms into that area. We will be able to contribute to that, even through some of the areas that were referred to in the previous questions on…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Agri-food Sector: Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Agri-food Sector: Investment
A project for that is under discussion. It has been through various processes, including in my Department, and is now going through a business case process in the Department of Finance. I expect that we will be in a position this year to announce support for the sector.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Agri-food Sector: Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Agri-food Sector: Investment
I recognise the importance of the agri-food processing sector to our economy and the contribution that it will make to delivering my economic strategy. My Department, through Invest NI, provides a wide range of support to the sector in areas including innovation, skills, sustainability and export development. However,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Agri-food Sector: Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Agri-food Sector: Investment
Yes, it will. The Member will know, as I do, from representing rural areas that connection charges can be prohibitive because of the isolated topography. The opportunity to socialise charges will assist people to get support for building their own homes or establishing small businesses or businesses in rural areas. It…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Grid Connection Charges Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Grid Connection Charges
Last summer, when the parties who were going to make up the Executive met, we talked about planning reform, not in the sense of planning policy but in the sense of improving planning systems and getting decisions to be taken quickly. There was broad agreement across all the parties. I have not had an opportunity for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Grid Connection Charges Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Grid Connection Charges
I plan to introduce socialisation of grid connection charges. Socialisation of connection charges is an important step in removing the current high cost barrier to the mass adoption of heat pumps and electric vehicles. It will create opportunities for businesses to decarbonise and is a key enabler in meeting our net…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Grid Connection Charges Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Grid Connection Charges
The matter does not rest with the Executive Office; it rests with the Department for Communities. I would like to see the tendering documents being released. That would give us more certainty about what the cost of the project will be. I recently met the IFA and the GAA. There is a concern that any delays with this…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: UEFA European Football Championship 2028 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: UEFA European Football Championship 2028
I acknowledge what the Member says. At its initiation, Casement Park was a project to provide for Gaelic games in Ulster and further afield and to provide economic regeneration in that part of west Belfast and, I have no doubt, the whole of Belfast through the provision of a fantastic venue. The work is progressing…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: UEFA European Football Championship 2028 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: UEFA European Football Championship 2028
Following a historic and successful joint bid, the five football associations across these islands are set to host the UEFA European Championships in 2028. In February, officials from my Department and the Department for Communities, alongside the Irish FA and the GAA, met a UEFA delegation in Belfast. Since then,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: UEFA European Football Championship 2028 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: UEFA European Football Championship 2028
There are many good social economy projects in rural areas. As I said, we have resourced a three-year strategy for the social economy that, I expect, will not be confined to urban areas. The community wealth building pilot project to which I referred will bring us much good information on how that can be done. At the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Community Wealth Building Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Community Wealth Building
A pilot scheme is already up and running on community wealth building between Larne and Derry. It is for the north-west generally but is focused on Derry. We recognise that, when we talk about regional balance and addressing inequality, imbalance does not exist just outside Belfast and that there are areas in Belfast…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Community Wealth Building Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Community Wealth Building
Community wealth building is an important piece in the delivery of my overall economic strategy and one that I am committed to strengthening. Community wealth building cuts across several areas of government and, in particular, connects with the work of the Department for Communities. I intend to work closely with DFC…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Community Wealth Building Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Community Wealth Building
Did you say "progressive"? OK. Anyway, as I said in answer to Mr Beattie, it is an idea that was developed as a consequence of the Command Paper. It is not fully developed. In that paper, it was agreed by the British Government that it would be housed in Whitehall and would be the responsibility of the Department for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK
The Member has made his own commentary on 10X. We have a three-year mandate. If we were to go back to starting all these strategies from scratch and going out to consult on them, the mandate would be over by the time that that was complete. Therefore, we decided, with the agreement of the Department and of Invest NI,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK
As I have been saying in response to previous questions, there is a real challenge for all Departments with the budgets that are available to us. There was an acknowledgement by the Government, prior to the Executive's coming back, that we had been underfunded. We continue to suffer from the legacy of that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK
As I said, Intertrade UK is a creation of Whitehall. Its ownership stays in Whitehall with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, so we do not have any funding input to it. InterTradeIreland, as you know, is a creation of the Good Friday Agreement and the North/South bodies that flow from that, and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK
The responsibility for establishing Intertrade UK sits with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and is in the planning stage. As part of my plans to grow the economy, we will be engaging with all relevant partners and bodies to ensure that trade moves smoothly and businesses are kept informed of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK
Yes, I do understand that fully, and that is an ongoing challenge. The rates that we collect fund about 10% of the Executive's available resources, and that goes into health, education and all the other priorities that Members in this Chamber stand up and say we need to spend more money on. That is the balance between…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges
I am not. We do not have access to the agenda for the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. I am not sure whether that issue is on it, but I know that, if part of that is to support the arrangements from the Good Friday Agreement, both Governments need to ensure that what they are doing collectively supports the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges
I am a firm believer that policies and strategies must be co-designed with the people who are at the working end of them in those sectors. Clearly, when we are designing a strategy for the tourism and hospitality sector, we want people who are in that sector to be engaged in it. I think that that will lead to the best…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges
In the context of the Budget that we have available to us, that will always be very challenging, but there are things that we can do. As I said, one of the key elements of the increasing cost of doing business is energy costs. Through the path to net zero energy strategy, there are supports for energy, being more…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges
I understand the importance of the hospitality sector for both the tourism industry and the high street economy, with approximately 57,000 jobs in the accommodation and food service sector. Addressing the challenges of rising costs cuts across several areas of government, including the Department for Communities and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hospitality Sector: Challenges
As I said, the meeting that I had with Minister Givan was to discuss, in the first instance, careers advice. We both agreed that the two Departments, because we share responsibility for education, need to work together closely and seamlessly to make sure that all young people experience maximum advantage as they go…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Careers Advice Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Careers Advice
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