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Ms Diane Forsythe: Assembly records
All of Ms Diane Forsythe’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether the Rural Micro Capital Grant Scheme 2026-27 will be opened for a second round.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to outline any action she has taken to promote and support the aerospace, defence, security and space sector in Northern Ireland since she came into office.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the reason why her Department increases costs by filling individual potholes that are very close together, as opposed to larger patching.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps taken (i) to raise awareness of; and (ii) take preventative measures in relation to, ovarian cancer, in the current financial year.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether there has been any assessment made of the cut to almost 8,000 student enrolments in further education colleges, including the longer-term impact of this on the economy.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for a breakdown of the recently announced cuts to further education college enrolments, broken down by (i) college location; and (ii) category of course to show (a) full-time or part-time; (b) apprenticeships; and (c) other relevant classifications.
I thank the Member for that. From having listened to the Bill sponsor's contributions, I think that he is clear on his definitions and on his intentions in his head, but that is not translated into the Bill. There is a lack of definitions. You have just said, regarding two or three things, that you have done this and…
I thank the Member for his intervention. I agree with him about the chilling effect. Many people made light of my colleague Peter Martin's contribution to the debate last week, but it was totally fair and made completely with good intentions to show how much overreach there is. My colleague Mr Givan also talked about…
I absolutely agree, and I thank my colleague for his contribution. I will address some of Mr Delargy's comments. Just before he came in, my colleague Diane Dodds referred to some comments from Stella O'Malley, a highly respected Dublin-based international psychotherapist, about the Bill's major chilling effect.…
I am not contradicting my colleague Peter Martin; I agree with his position. It is the Bill sponsor who has outlined during the debate how much work there would be for the police in investigating and interpreting the potential offences. Would parents be investigated? Would counsellors? How many people would have to be…
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Thank you for handling that with so much professionalism. It gets challenging in here at times, but I have the utmost respect for you in all aspects of your role. I was talking about the clear definition of language in the courts. The Bill sponsor mentioned the role of the courts and the…
The Member has just joined us in the Chamber for, I think, the first time today, and he has obviously got his social media clip. I do not know whether he is trying to make an appeal so that he keeps his seat in Foyle or whose benefit that was for. I will not, however, be lectured on my faith by him.
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I thank the Member for that. To get back to what the Bill sponsor said, I understand that that is the job of the courts: to decide those things based on the law. However, I also understand that, where the law is clear, fewer things are defined by the courts and by case law. My colleague Mr Buckley is quoting cases; if…
Thank you, Minister, for that. I will go back to the point that we were addressing on what should be in the Bill so that it is not left to the court to interpret grey areas and to lawyers to battle it out in the courtroom. I said that I have been through the private Member's Bill consultation process and that I…