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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I am in the process of finalising the housing supply strategy. It remains my intention to bring the strategy to the Executive for their consideration shortly. Publication will be dependent on Executive approval.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Housing Supply Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Housing Supply Strategy
The first part of the Member's question serves to demonstrate how he does not listen. He claims that it was a decision for Stormont, but we do not have the finances to keep the scheme going and make the payment universal. We do not have the means to do that without having access to the DWP system. I do not see how the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment
I do not have the details of the change, first, because it is for a UK Government and the Department for Work and Pensions to issue it. I do not expect any direct cost to the Department. The savings will probably be fairly limited overall. On the additional expense for the system, it may just be about pressing one or…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment
Of course. I am grateful to the Member for raising that issue. It is right that we identify the serious budgetary situation in which we find ourselves. That is why I and, I hope, the Member will continue to press for additional funding for the key schemes and strategies that my Department implements that have an…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment
I will absolutely raise that issue with the Housing Executive at our next meeting. I will encourage it to take all the steps that it can to make sure that we identify and help those who will be most affected by the decision.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment
Absolutely. We are making good progress on finalising the parameters of the fuel poverty strategy, but it will obviously have to change now, because there is a significant difference from what was the case. It is possible that many more older people will fall into fuel poverty, so we need to make sure that we take all…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment
It is absolutely the case that rural homes are affected even more than others by fuel poverty. I addressed that in my response to Deborah Erskine last week. Of course, we will see it reflected not just in the fuel poverty strategy but in the energy strategy that is being brought forward. How do we tackle fuel poverty?…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment
As I said when it was announced, restricting the winter fuel payment will have a detrimental impact on many in our society. For those who are less well off, it creates an additional financial burden and comes amid a range of cost-of-living pressures. I have already made crystal clear to the Secretary of State for Work…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment
It is important that we have that coordination and that we listen, and it will certainly be my intention to make sure that the strategy is viewed and that we have further time for input on the strategy. The Member will forgive me: I do not have the specific date that he asks for, but I am happy to provide it to him.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps
Absolutely. We are doing a number of things that help to minimise the risk of people getting into poverty, limit the impact of poverty and help people escape poverty. The strategy will bring those together, add measures and make sure that we have Executive buy-in so that we can do something concrete. I am determined…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps
Absolutely, but not just because there is a legal duty on me, as there has been on all of my predecessors since 1998, but because this is an issue that we need to tackle. We need to see real progress on this because too many of our people are out of work and too many of our people live in poverty, and we need to do…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps
Just because you do not see the work going on does not mean that work is not taking place. That work has been happening, and I outlined in the answer — perhaps the Member had already prepared his supplementary question before he listened to the answer to the first question — and was clear in saying that I will write…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps
I will be writing to Executive colleagues before the end of September to outline the next steps in developing the anti-poverty strategy. Details of the proposed timetable for the next steps in developing the disability, gender equality and sexual orientation strategies will follow in the coming weeks.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Inclusion Strategies: Next Steps
I wish to make a statement on the future provision of winter fuel payments in Northern Ireland. Although I already provided a written ministerial statement to the Assembly on 30 August, I am making an oral statement to the Assembly today in order to give the House an opportunity to express its views and for Members to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 That the Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 be approved.
Assessment details for Motion or amendment: The Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: The Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 That the Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 be approved.
Assessment details for Motion or amendment: The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I thank everyone who has contributed to the important debates at each stage of the Bill's passage through the Assembly. I have listened carefully and will take the opportunity to respond to a number of the points that have been made. First, I have to take issue with the first thing that Mr McCrossan said. He said:…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Defective Premises Bill: Final Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Defective Premises Bill: Final Stage
I beg to move I begin by thanking the Executive, the Committee for Communities and Members for their cross-party support for this important Bill at all stages of its progress under the accelerated passage procedure. I welcome the final opportunity to explain why I am pleased to have progressed this vital legislation…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Defective Premises Bill: Final Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Defective Premises Bill: Final Stage
I beg to move The regulations are part of the annual uprating package and increase the lump sum compensation payable by the scheme under the Mesothelioma, etc., Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. There is no explicit requirement to review the level of payments under the scheme each year, unlike with the main benefit…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I beg to move The uprating package usually increases the rates of social security pensions, benefits and lump sum payments each year in line with inflation. Uprating occurs around the beginning of the tax year, and these two rules came into operation from April 2024. I seek the Assembly's approval for the two rules,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order (Northern Ireland) 2024
I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Child Support Enforcement Bill presented to the Assembly today provides for the introduction of administrative liability orders to replace the existing court-based liability order process used by the Child Maintenance Service (CMS). The provisions in the Bill will enable…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Child Support Enforcement Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Child Support Enforcement Bill: Second Stage
I welcome the level of consensus that we have across the Chamber on these regulations, and I place on record my thanks to the Chair of the Committee and the Committee more widely for the positive way in which they dealt with the issue. I want to raise a few issues that were brought up during the debate. It is correct…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Local Government (Remote Meetings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Local Government (Remote Meetings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I beg to move I am pleased to bring the statutory rule (SR) to the Assembly for approval today. The draft regulations were laid before the Assembly on 7 June 2024 and are subject to the draft affirmative resolution procedure. The purpose of the draft regulations is to give councils the flexibility to hold meetings by…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Local Government (Remote Meetings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Local Government (Remote Meetings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
I am grateful to the Member for raising that issue. It is not something that I have been made aware of. Unfortunately, from time to time, people find themselves, either through fraud or error, in a position where they have to repay. That is something that we are trying to limit, and a number of questions have been…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Sector Size Criteria Payments: Workaround Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Sector Size Criteria Payments: Workaround
I am grateful to the Member for his question, which highlights a number of issues. First, the need for us to make sure that we are investing in sport in Northern Ireland. We have already highlighted the importance of grassroots sport, and that needs to continue. We also have a responsibility to make sure that the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Larne Swimmers: Olympic Selection Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Larne Swimmers: Olympic Selection
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