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Mr Danny Baker: Assembly records

All of Mr Danny Baker’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.

538 records match, page 10 of 22.

  2. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    While you are going through that, I have a wee quote from you. You had a dig at the Minister the last time that this was debated: "Will the Minister please tell the UK Government that the children of Northern Ireland who would benefit from a reinstated school holiday food grant scheme are just as valuable as the…

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  4. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    You made an interesting point. I call that a fugazi. What you did there was interesting. Officials come in and do the exact same thing at our Committee. On 10 December, a senior official came in and used that sort of language: "Of the overall budget, it is only 0·4%" or whatever they said — "It is a small proportion".…

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  6. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I suppose that we could make the point that it is 0·6% of the overall Education budget. Working it out quickly, TransformED is 0·36% of the budget in its first year, and, in the year after that, it will be something similar to 0·6%. We can play the game of saying that what you spend on is down to priorities; it is…

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  8. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you. Again, the Bill is only one piece of the puzzle. As I have said many times, it does not go far enough, so it is the least that the Executive could do. When it comes to amendments, I need to remind the House that 11 amendments that were tabled to a piece of legislation that went through the Education…

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  10. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I am very conscious of that issue. I am meeting officials tomorrow. Based on my research and the work that I have done, I do not believe that a disregard would be needed for a wide variety of people. I think that, if that were the case, the Minister would work with us at pace, if that were the will of the House…

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  12. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    It is the right of any Member to introduce legislation. In recent times, your party tabled a motion calling for the payments to be reinstated. As I said earlier, it is easy to say yes to a motion. I introduced the Bill, and I know that it is difficult for everyone to make a decision on it, but that is what we are here…

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  14. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    That is very much the reason why I say that the Bill is only one piece of a wider puzzle. The threshold is a piece of the puzzle. Universal free school meals are a piece of that puzzle. There are pieces of the puzzle in the Department of Health, the Department for Communities and across the board, but my private…

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  16. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you, Nick, for giving way. I suppose that I need to point out that the guidance that we have been given by the Speaker is that, when we bring our Members' Bills forward, our policy intent has to be narrow. I would love to have written much wider legislation, but I am not the Minister and do not sit on the…

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  17. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you for giving way again. I have been very clear from the outset that I think that this is the very least that the Education Department should be doing. I think that other Departments should be doing more, and I would also like to see more private Member's Bills coming forward to deal with child poverty.

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  18. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I was going to make that point. The lowest-income families qualify for free school meals, and the Minister had a wee pop at those families. I did not want the debate to go down that route, but it is clear from his intervention that that is what he is going to do. The Member mentioned…

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  20. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I beg to move Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I start by thanking the Speaker's Office and the Bill Office for all the support that they have given me over the past two years to get the Bill to this stage. I could not have done it without the help of Trevor and Barbara in particular, and Frank…

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  21. Debate contribution: Summer Schemes in Special Schools: Cancellation

    • Private Members' Business

    Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. We are in this position not because of the Executive but because two Ministers could not pick up the goddamn phone to call each other. No excuses, no deflection: that is exactly what it was. Families are here today watching, and they saw what you did to them last week. You knew…

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  25. Motion or amendment: Cancellation of Summer Schemes in Special Schools - Amendment 1

    • Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Cancellation of Summer Schemes in Special Schools”

    Cancellation of Summer Schemes in Special Schools - Amendment 1 Leave out all after “That this Assembly” and insert: ‘notes the decision to reinstate summer schemes in special schools in 2026 following their initial cancellation by the Education Authority; recognises that these schemes provide a lifeline for many…

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