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Mr David Brooks: Assembly records
All of Mr David Brooks’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
The previous Member who spoke did not give way, yet he was talking about the health system and hospitals. He did not make any reference to Hamas or the fact that it uses those places as bases and its own people as human targets. That has an awful lot to do with the number of dead.
Last December, the Sinn Féin Member for West Tyrone Nicola Brogan spoke passionately in the Chamber in favour of the interim climate targets and the draft carbon budgets that the Alliance Environment Minister proposed. Indeed, she stated: "the Climate Change Act is one of the most important Bills that we have passed…
I thank the Minister for her answer. Our party, of course, supports that work and was among the first to push for it. Given her meeting with the Finance Minister, can she provide any insight into which Departments may be asked to provide resource for it?
The Minister will know that some international tests are held not far from where we are today. He will be aware of the upcoming Cricket World Cup. Will he make provision to ensure that Northern Ireland has the opportunity to host some games?
Today is Batten Disease Awareness Day. This is a day that carries great meaning for families around the world, and for around 100 to 150 families in the UK: a community that refuses to give up hope. Batten disease is a rare inherited disorder of the nervous system that typically begins in childhood. It is progressive…
I thank my constituency and party colleague for securing this important Adjournment debate. The acute demand for housing in East Belfast is no surprise to anyone here. We understand, of course, that it is not an isolated issue but a reflection of some of the pressures that are faced across Northern Ireland. Perhaps…
The UK has announced just today that it will invest significantly in defending that neighbourhood. Does he agree that the Irish state needs to step up and do the same for its neighbours?
TikTok, indeed. In the current global context, it always strikes me as curious that we have two nationalist and separatist parties in this place whose primary objective is to achieve full Irish sovereignty over the whole of this island, yet they would enthusiastically see any new state subsumed immediately as part of…
FlaggedDecided on a second assessment.Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereigntyCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.
The rigorous implementers seem to have fallen out, which I regret. Here we are. In recent weeks and months, the constructive Opposition have taken to making rather disingenuous and selective social media jibes about the finishing times of this place and regularly whinging about what is debated on the Floor. Yet, they…
Will the Member accept that those interventions were required because parties such as his sought to thwart the democratic process as expressed through probably the largest democratic exercise that the United Kingdom has ever undertaken?
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline any assessment his Department has made of how the potential disruption to supplies of veterinary medicines from Great Britain, under the Windsor Framework, will impact on the welfare of pets and companion animals in Northern Ireland.
Today of all days, the Minister will be well aware of the needs and asks from around the Chamber and from Departments. In recent weeks, I have engaged with local police, who, it is clear, are stretched, and we are all aware of the pressure on our housing stock. Today, however, particularly in advance of the…
Such is the nature of a pilot scheme. The phone pouch pilot is about building the evidential base and seeing where we go from there. The Minister has explained the logic behind it. Colleagues have rightly noted that, if we are to make a difference, banning phones in schools cannot be a cure-all. Protecting our…
In the context of the Education budget or the Executive Budget, a £250,000 spend is a relatively small sum. As the Minister explained, the pilot is about building an evidential base and building understanding. I think that a Sinn Féin TD in the South referred to it as a drop in the ocean, so we have heard different…
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Although I am making the winding-up speech on my party's amendment, colleagues who have already spoken clearly articulated the rationale behind our amendment and detailed the main points of our party's position, with which I align myself. I thank the Members who tabled the motion,…
There is an increasing plague on communities in east Belfast, as there is across the country, I am sure, and that is the illegal use of scrambler bikes. In recent weeks, I have met police officers who cover the east Belfast and Dundonald areas to discuss the subject. It was clear from our discussions that the police…