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All of Mr Gordon Lyons’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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Yes, I do have plans to meet them, but I am not sure whether those dates have been set yet. If the Member has a genuine interest in that, I am happy to let him know when those meetings happen.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
Mr Sheehan says that I am not interested in the matter, but it appears that it is his Ministers who are not interested.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
— but that is what is happening.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
Mr Sheehan, the truth might hurt —
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
So, perhaps he might want to spend his time asking some of his party colleagues where their interest lies in the matter. He can shout —. He likes to do this: when he does not have any arguments left, he likes to shout from those Back Benches. Mr Sheehan —.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
— and I have had no responses from the Department of Finance.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
I have had no responses from the Department for the Economy —
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
He says that my interest is "zilch and zero" on the issue. Let me tell the Member that I have not had responses on the issue yet from some Departments. I have had no responses from the Department for Infrastructure.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
I have not met the commissioner at this stage. Obviously, right now —. The Member is shaking his head, but it is the truth. I have not met the commissioner at this stage. I have not met any of the commissioners yet. Right now, the working group —. He is sighing quite a lot, Mr Speaker. He is not very happy, but I am…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
All Departments are engaged in the development of the Ulster-Scots language, heritage and culture strategy and the Irish language strategy through the work of the programme of the cross-departmental working group. The group is working to ensure that each strategy is coherent, costed and accompanied by a series of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Language Strategy
You are trying to muddy the waters and insert some uncertainty into this. These were all carefully considered. I have to take into consideration all the evidence. That is exactly what we have done.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing
You have to let me answer the question. That is how Question Time works. I engaged with other stakeholders. I have engaged with those who came forward. The response to each of the recommendations was set out by me in the Chamber, and they were informed by a variety of factors. Do not try to muddy the waters in any way…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing
The Member is making that up. She has no idea of what informed my view or the view of this —.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing
I have not rejected the author's recommendations in relation to local producers' licences. We introduced those licences to modernise the regime in 2022. We are under an obligation to undertake a statutory review of the provisions, which I anticipate will be launched early next year. My response to the author's…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing
The Member is just making generalisations. We do not have any evidence for what he has just said. That is why we have said that we are going to look at what the causes are of the licenses being surrendered to off-licences rather than other pubs. You have to look at the picture across the UK and Ireland, where there…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing
The abolition of the surrender principle in its totality would have a detrimental impact on existing hospitality businesses. I do not accept, however, the Member's assertion that I am taking a do-nothing approach. I have already outlined some of the actions that I will take in the near future. There is also further…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing
My published response outlines the actions that I have instructed my officials to take. Actions that can be delivered in the shorter term include approving an industry code of practice from 1 January that will strengthen existing provisions associated with the recommendation for mandatory training on responsible…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Liquor Licensing
The Member is absolutely right to raise the issue. That is why my disability and work strategy is out for consultation right now, as she will know. Its ambition is to lift the disability employment rate from 40% to 50%, which represents an additional 50,000 people in employment. That is the combined total of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Employment: Upper Bann Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Employment: Upper Bann
I am fully committed to helping people into employment as a key route out of poverty. That is why I have championed employment programmes and initiatives to help people across Northern Ireland, including in the Upper Bann constituency. I have provided £685,000 to the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Labour Market…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Employment: Upper Bann Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Employment: Upper Bann
I want to see targets set that are realistic, achievable, sustainable and, most important, based on evidence. The last estimate that we have of the cost of introducing a child payment in Northern Ireland is just short of £300 million a year, and that does not count IT and other delivery costs. However, I have yet to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy
The Member is right to highlight that there are issues that cut across Departments, and that is why it is a cross-departmental and Executive anti-poverty strategy. There have been ongoing discussions at the cross-departmental working group level to look at the actions that we can put in place that will make a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy
I anticipate that, throughout the lifespan of the strategy, as individual Departments develop and deliver actions, they may wish to use the potential of the Children's Services Co-operation Act to ensure a joined-up and sustainable approach to delivery. That will be especially important where actions to be delivered…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy
That is why I am bringing forward the fuel strategy and why it will have targeted measures to help those most in need. The issues that the Member raises are a direct result of the inefficiency of some of our homes, so that will be addressed. We are not considering Awaab's law at the minute because we have other…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Fuel Poverty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Fuel Poverty
I am happy to confirm that I will make significant bids to the Executive for the fuel poverty strategy. I want it to be ambitious and transformational, and it is a good investment. We have been good in recent years at handing people funding to help them with their energy bills, but that helps for only one year. I want…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Fuel Poverty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Fuel Poverty
Yes, because that is one of the most effective ways that we can use our money, whether that is on boilers, insulation or other measures that can have benefit year-on-year, as I outlined in my previous answer. I committed an opening budget of £7·5 million to the affordable warmth scheme this year, covering 5% of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Fuel Poverty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Fuel Poverty
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