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Mr David Honeyford: Assembly records
All of Mr David Honeyford’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Mr Honeyford asked the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, having already talked about the environment and Lough Neagh, to outline the latest position in respect of ammonia.
To give our skilled workforce opportunity for employment, we need growth in the wider industry. With our grid not being capable of taking about 40% of renewable energy, which is dumped at sea, will the Minister outline any expansion of or investment in our electricity grid that will allow those jobs to come through?
The growth of renewable energy offers several significant benefits for residents and environmental and economic advantages. At the weekend, however, we saw reports that, again, exposed the slow pace of change, which is made worse by renewable energy being continually wasted because it is not able to access our grid.…
That is no problem, thank you. I appreciate that the Minister is not long in office. I recently met officials from his Department to feed back some information from my constituency of Lagan Valley, where constituents have no voice on the matter and some of whom cannot sell houses. If the Minister can give his…
Alliance supports the transition towards renewable energy. We absolutely want to see that happen at a much faster pace, and we want to see the energy security and all the benefits that come with that, not to mention cleaner air and a cleaner environment. Anything that we can do to progress our journey to net zero is…
We hear a lot about dual market access and the advantages that this region has over other parts of the UK and Ireland. New figures released today show that our economic growth is at least resilient, whereas the rest of the UK is contracting. Worryingly, however, business activity is declining. Unfortunately, we do not…
I have spoken on this issue before, and I have raised it a couple of times. The motion lays out the importance of hospitality and the stats on it, so I will not repeat them. As the economy spokesperson for Alliance, I regularly meet the industry. Only a matter of weeks ago, Colin Neill of Hospitality Ulster and I…
I know that the question was about land, but I am more interested in Invest NI developing jobs and economic growth in the area. Minister, surely with dual market access, where we are selling products, we should be focused on expanding the manufacturing industry and providing the land to enable that. You have…
I was going to say half-jokingly that the sixth form at Laurelhill has never been the same since the Minister was there. I agree with him on quite a bit of what he said about pathways, but we are talking about pathways for a child and how the focus should be on the child and what they are going to do. Our teaching…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any engagement his Department has had with the Department for the Economy to seek an increase in the student finance provision for those undertaking allied health professional degree courses.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any plans his Department has to review student finance provision for students undertaking allied health professional degree courses, in light of the 20 per cent increase in other degree course areas.
I also wish the Minister well in his new role. I have been at, I think, every Shared Island event and meeting that has happened in the South. Part of it comes from what reconciliation is and what it looks like in 2025. We are 27 years on from the Good Friday Agreement, so what does reconciliation look like in the next…
I welcome the new Minister and wish her all the best. To follow on from what Philip said, there has been talk of compensation schemes from NIE and the telecommunications companies, but it is vital that the compensation comes out of the profits of the companies, not out of the pockets of the householders affected. Will…
To ask the Minister of Education to outline the impact of changes to the licensing scheme for the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and Gaisce - The President's Award on local schools and youth settings.
I thank the Minister for her detailed answer. I am thinking a little bit ahead. Earlier, the Minister talked about the cost of doing business research that is being carried out by the university. Could that research look at a banded rating system as a potential opportunity to help our small businesses in the long term?
Mr Honeyford asked the Minister of Finance, further to her earlier answers regarding rate relief and business rates, if she has plans for a banded rating system within the 10-year strategic review of rates.
Recently, the Great British Energy Bill was in front of the Economy Committee. We are looking through the outworkings of it. Will the Minister tell us what advantage that Bill will bring us? Will there be an uplift in investment here? What difference will it make to energy security here?
To ask the Minister for Communities to confirm the date on which he wrote to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to ask for an update on the UK Government's view of the Casement Park redevelopment.
That meeting happened in October. Has the Minister met the UK Government since then to discuss the funding that Treasury might make available? If that meeting has happened, will he give us an update on it?
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Protecting Frontline Services From Increase in Employers’ National Insurance”
Protecting Frontline Services From Increase in Employers’ National Insurance - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘public sector,’ and insert: ‘independent providers and community and voluntary sector organisations providing frontline services; and further calls on the Minister to lobby the Chancellor of Exchequer for…