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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.

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  7. Debate contribution: Election of the President of Ireland: Voting Rights

    • Private Members' Business

    Does the Member agree that, if we are going to respect all Irish citizens, those Irish citizens in Northern Ireland should not be treated any differently? They are not more Irish, for instance, than those Irish-born citizens in New York, Sydney or London. Northern Ireland should not be treated as a special case in…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  9. Debate contribution: Election of the President of Ireland: Voting Rights

    • Private Members' Business

    There has been talk of a democratic deficit. Does the Member agree that, if voting rights were extended to the Irish diaspora worldwide, which numbers tens if not hundreds of millions, the democratic deficit would fall on the people of the Irish Republic, who would be outnumbered by those living internationally?

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  11. Motion or amendment: Creating a Level Playing Field in Pre-School Admissions

    • Motion · Private Members' Motion

    Creating a Level Playing Field in Pre-School Admissions That this Assembly expresses alarm that working families are disadvantaged by the current admissions criteria for pre-school education; is concerned that the requirement for providers to give priority to children from socially disadvantaged circumstances…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  13. Debate contribution: Reducing Barriers to All-Ireland Student Mobility

    • Private Members' Business

    I was just outlining a point of difference. I do not plan to get into that particular debate. I am going to address the issue, but I was outlining how we come from a different angle in that regard. There is a degree of uncertainty when those big choices have to be made. If more clarity can be provided for students…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  15. Debate contribution: Reducing Barriers to All-Ireland Student Mobility

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you; I do not plan to use it. This party believes that it is sensible to have cross-border cooperation. We are not against that; we have seen it in health and other areas. I was not looking to get into a back and forward. From your party's point of view, there is a plan to project the idea of moving in a…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  17. Debate contribution: Reducing Barriers to All-Ireland Student Mobility

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I will probably speak along similar lines. There is some commonality, although I would dissent from some of the more ideological comments that were made by my colleague on the opposite Benches around the all-island elements in terms of the economy and so on, but we will not…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  20. Debate contribution: PEG Tube Surgery: Access

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Minister for his answer. The campaign group Parents 4 Pegs NI will be holding a drop-in session upstairs and would welcome the engagement, if you are free later, Minister. They would welcome further clarity — you have given some — on whether the current strategy, as they understand it, of having two…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  21. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Extension of Committee Stage

    • Committee Business

    Yes. I will return to my comments on the amendment, Mr Speaker. I appreciate that. The main point that I would draw from what I was talking about is that, with the considerable evidence gathering undertaken and the significant amount of Committee time given to it, I am not sure that many members ended up with a very…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  22. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Extension of Committee Stage

    • Committee Business

    I thank the Member for his intervention. I think that he would recognise that I did give credit to the Chair. We might not all agree on what we would change, but I think that most members would say that there were probably aspects of what we undertook that we would relook at if we were put in the same position.

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  23. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Extension of Committee Stage

    • Committee Business

    In making the winding-up speech on our amendment, I do not need to rehearse the arguments for the entire Bill. As has been said before, the Bill has been well discussed in this place, and, in fairness, all parties will acknowledge that their general aims and wishes are not that far removed from one another's. There is…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  24. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Extension of Committee Stage

    • Committee Business

    While the Member is on the subject, does he accept that, whilst we chose not to divide the Committee, we made our concerns known in Committee, on our part at least?

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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