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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 qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.

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  3. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    Thank you, Minister. I do not know whether I can help with that, but I am curious about this: if the Members opposite believe that agreement to proceed is not agreement, why does the Minister believe that they are holding up the 16-to-18 legislation?

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  5. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I know what the Member means, but we have to be clear about the sanctioning of teachers. What any sanction would be is to be decided, but it would not be out of line with, and would probably be more moderated than, what happens in other professions. It would be imposed in response to one thing only, and that is…

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  7. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    Will the Member accept that our nursing workforce and our care workers face huge pressures as well? They work in systems that are not funded enough, and they are not paid enough. There are huge issues in those systems as well, but we would not stand in this place and argue that one of the solutions to that is to allow…

    Not qualifying

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  9. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    Listen, I have outlined the way in which the Minister is working to address the workload issues, but, in my speech, using the example of Dundonald High School in my constituency, I have also shown how inspections help to get attention for some of the issues that teachers and schools have with the facilities that they…

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  10. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Minister for his intervention. The Member is clearly not happy with what he says is the legacy of the GTC, so I hope that he will vote for the Bill when the Question is put to the House. The Member is making a challenge, but he supports inspections. Again, my problem is that I do not see a match between…

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  11. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    The Member has put his comments on the record. I am sure that he is pleased to do so. I am moving on with the debate. It does not change the fact that, in the decade that we talked about, inspections were repeatedly undermined by industrial tactics that placed institutional interests above the interests of children.…

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  14. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    That would be the consistent thing to do. However, as you have set out, the contradictions from the Benches opposite are legion. Frankly, I do not believe that most parents, school leaders or indeed teachers believe that inspection should be optional or subject to cordial relations with the Department. The Minister,…

    Not qualifying

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  15. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    The Bill would plug an obvious gap in our legislation that leaves children, parents and the public without reliable, independent assurance of the education and safeguarding provided in our schools. School inspections give confidence and assurance to government but also to families that the education that their child…

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  17. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    You have identified a litany of issues in our education system: I suggest that funding is a major factor. Will you go to your Finance Minister and ask him whether he intends to fix the issues with the draft Budget that he produced, which would leave our education system with £600 million of pressures next year?

    Not qualifying

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  19. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I agree. The vast majority of teachers are obviously doing a very good job as educationalists but also in safeguarding children. The issue is that, in any sphere, there can be people who are not doing the job as well as they should be or, in some cases, there is a danger. That is what inspection is for; that is what…

    Not qualifying

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  21. Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I agree with an awful lot of what he has just said, because it seems similar to the arguments that I will make during my speech. The trouble that I have is that we cannot say that inspection is critical to the quality of our schools and to ensuring that our schools are safe and so on…

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  25. Topical question AQT 2396/22-27

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Mr Brooks asked the Minister of Finance, given that the Minister's officials told the Finance Committee that they estimate that bringing up to modern standards Dundonald House on the Stormont estate, which is in his East Belfast constituency, would cost £100 million-plus and that that cannot be afforded, meaning that…

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    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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