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All of Mr John Blair’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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To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether there is any consideration to retrospectively install swift bricks on departmental buildings which do not have them installed.
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Assessment details for Written question AQW 47234/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 47234/22-27
Banning the Use of Aversive Training Tools for Domestic Animals - Amendment 1 Leave out: ‘with appropriate exemptions for veterinarians, animal rescuers and dog wardens to use necessary tools when required for safe handling and in cases of emergencies’
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Assessment details for Motion or amendment: Banning the Use of Aversive Training Tools for Domestic Animals - Amendment 1 Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: Banning the Use of Aversive Training Tools for Domestic Animals - Amendment 1
I thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker, for chairing the debate, along with your Deputy Speaker colleague and the Speaker. I take this opportunity to respond to the debate and thank all Members for their contributions this afternoon and, indeed, this evening. It has been an important discussion. Whilst some…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Is it in order for a Member to deliberately misrepresent my words? I intervened — I was grateful that Mr Gaston took the intervention — on a query regarding the definition and description of an "enclosed space". I did so to be helpful, and I stand over that. Mr Buckley implied…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker —.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
Again, I thank the Member for giving way. I hope that he knows that I am trying to be helpful here. The term "enclosed space" is a generic but inclusive term. Does the Member understand that it could include all enclosed spaces? It could be a barn, a cave, a hole in the ground or a shed. If one tried to list every…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
This is the second time today that I have been challenged on the same question by Mr Gaston. I thank him for giving way. I am happy to clarify that. If he reads the paragraph that he is talking about to the end, he will see that, after "another activity", it has wording in brackets that talks about scent. It states:…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
On a point of order, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Will you rule — or refer this for a ruling — on whether the Member is misleading the House? The Bill Office was not presented with anything that was poorly drafted. You know, Principal Deputy Speaker — I suspect that the Member also knows this — that the Bill was…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
I am grateful to the Member for giving way. Before he proceeds, I ask him to clarify something for me. I will refer later to the generalisations that have filtered through today's debate. Will he agree that he does not represent every view in the rural area, where views on hunting with dogs, animal cruelty, fox…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
Nor in England.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
I have already answered that.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
I will be brief. The Member may consider that Mr Buckley made a good intervention, but it was an inaccurate one. I will explain why. If he looks at page 4, which sets out new article 23G, he will see, from 2(a) onwards, a number of references to a "pack" of dogs. If we are going to question that, let us at least read…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
Will the Member accept from me — I hope, in the right spirit — that my explanation at the start of the debate of hunting a wild mammal using one or more dogs is really quite self-explanatory? It is using one or more dogs to hunt, catch and kill a wild mammal. That is completely different from using a gun to hunt the…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
May I clarify that for the Member? I am trying to be helpful and courteous. Does the Member accept, in good faith, that, when I gave that answer in Committee, I was not trying to be obstructive? I was trying to be factual. The dictionary definition — the any-Google-search definition — of a "pack" of dogs is "more than…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
I am grateful to Mr Butler for giving way. If it helps, I can point out, in response to the intervention made to Mr Butler, that, where someone is going out and shooting, as referenced by Mr Frew, they are not subject to the Bill, because they are shooting and not using dogs to kill a wild mammal. It is as clear as…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
I beg to move I am grateful for the opportunity to open the Second Stage debate on my Hunting with Dogs Bill. As Members will be aware, the purpose of the Bill is to end the practice of hunting wild mammals with dogs for sport in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom without such a…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hunting with Dogs Bill: Second Stage
The Minister will be aware that, through the special circumstances, known as SORPI, for Northern Ireland Water, the public purse pays a public body to pollute, it pays a government agency to investigate the pollution and then it pays the penalty, if one is issued. Will the Minister provide an update on his efforts to…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Water: Lough Neagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Water: Lough Neagh
Second Stage: Hunting with Dogs Bill (NIA Bill 33/22-27)
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Assessment details for Motion or amendment: Second Stage: Hunting with Dogs Bill (NIA Bill 33/22-27) Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: Second Stage: Hunting with Dogs Bill (NIA Bill 33/22-27)
I thank the Minister for that reply. Will he tell us the likely consequences for our public services if he fails to reach agreement with the Treasury and secure Executive approval for a draft Budget, and will he tell us the timeline and deadline for all that?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2026-29/2030 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2026-29/2030
I thank those who have moved the motion and the amendment. I will address the motion in my capacity as a member of the Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, but I am also mindful of my role as chair of the all-party group on animal welfare in the Assembly. The statistics, some of which are in the…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Bovine Tuberculosis Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Bovine Tuberculosis
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