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All of Mr John O'Dowd’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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As I read out, the repayment schedule for the reserve claim is £80 million in 2026-27, £160 million in 2027-28 and the same in 2028-29. The allocations for the spring forecast are £227 million in 2026-27, £5·6 million in 2027-28 and £144·9 million in 2028-29. The only year when there is credit, for want of a better…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2026-29/2030 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2026-29/2030
With your permission, Deputy Speaker, I will answer questions 3 and 9 together. I published my multi-year Budget proposals on 6 January and launched a public consultation on the same day. The draft Budget does not provide the level of funding that I would wish for public services. Rather, it reflects what is possible…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2026-29/2030 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2026-29/2030
We are undertaking a series of reviews, and I do not want to pre-empt any decisions on any information that may come to me. I have said in the House previously that I want to give a rates holiday to businesses that extend their premises physically and so on, but let us work our way through the processes and see where…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates: Chapels of Rest Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates: Chapels of Rest
Now that the Member has brought that to my attention, I will take it under consideration as we move to the rates review. I am conscious of the very personal and emotive nature of such settings and the services that they offer bereaved families, including, as the Member pointed out, bereaved families who have lost a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates: Chapels of Rest Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates: Chapels of Rest
Over 77% of funeral directors' chapels of rest in the valuation list here currently benefit from small business rate relief, meaning that they get between 20% and 50% off their rates bill. I have recently completed a consultation process on small business rate relief, and I am considering the responses received to it.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates: Chapels of Rest Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates: Chapels of Rest
We currently provide our business sector with around a quarter of a billion pounds' worth of support. Across the whole tax base, 75% of non-domestic properties are currently entitled to some form of rate relief. The current small business rate relief scheme supports almost 30,000 businesses with discounts of between…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reval2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reval2026
The hospitality sector offered to bring evidence to me. I welcome the opportunity to engage with the sector on that evidence when it is presented. The detail of that evidence and the need for discussion around it will dictate how long it will be before I can evaluate it.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reval2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reval2026
I cannot comment on any individual business. However, a significant increase in Reval suggests that there was a significant physical extension to the business, a change in the business model where different services were provided or an increase in income for that business. Those are the usual projections. Furthermore,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reval2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reval2026
It is unlikely that anything will be published in the remainder of this calendar year. We will decide our next move in discussions with all sectors, whether that will be Reval2027 or Reval2028. However, it was right to stop, engage and then decide on a way forward.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reval2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reval2026
With your permission, a LeasCheann Comhairle, I will answer questions 1, 6 and 10 together. On 29 January 2026, I outlined my decision to stop further work on the Reval2026 process. In my meeting with the hospitality sector on 29 January, I advised that I was looking forward to engaging with the hospitality sector and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reval2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reval2026
I beg to move the Marriage and Civil Partnership Bill, which is a Bill to make provision as to the persons who may solemnise marriage; to make provision about the minimum age for marriage and civil partnership; and for connected purposes.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Marriage and Civil Partnership Bill: First Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Marriage and Civil Partnership Bill: First Stage
I thank all Members who expressed their views during today's debate and those who contributed to earlier debates on the Bill and its associated Supply resolutions. To clarify, we are debating the finalisation of the Budget for 2025-26 and the Vote on Account; it is not the multi-year Budget that we are voting on. I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget Bill: Final Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget Bill: Final Stage
I beg to move Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Today's Final Stage debate concludes the financial legislative process for the Budget Bill in the Assembly. The Bill provides the legislative authority for the final expenditure plans of Departments and other bodies, as set out in the spring Supplementary…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget Bill: Final Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget Bill: Final Stage
Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I thank Members for their comments and thank the Committee for its work. As Members have said, the scheme is worth reinstating for those living in isolated rural communities who depend on available ATMs. We all appreciate the difficulties that are encountered in those…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
I beg to move The order extends the rural ATMs rates exemption scheme for the 2026-27 rating year. The scheme is now a mainstay of the non-domestic rating system, with an underlying policy objective of encouraging and sustaining the provision of rateable ATMs in rural areas. When introducing the measures in 2024, my…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle I thank Members for their comments, and, again, I thank the Committee for its work on the scheme. The scheme is a positive contribution to our local economy. It supports many businesses in those first few difficult years, as they get themselves established on the high street or into the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
I beg to move Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Before dealing with the order, I will set out the background to the measure. The purpose of today's legislation is to extend the Back in Business scheme for the 2026-27 year. The scheme is designed to bring long-term vacant high-street properties back into use,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
Thank you, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank the Members who have contributed to this important debate, and I thank members of the Finance Committee for their comments and for facilitating the debate with their timely scrutiny. As always, it has been an interesting debate, if not always an enlightening one,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
I beg to move Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. As Members are aware, legislation to set the regional rates for businesses and households is brought forward around this time each year. To facilitate the billing process, the Executive met on 12 February and agreed the regional rates that are before…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
The Member is right that a straight line can be drawn from Brexit to this problem. It is a straight line the whole way. The prospect of replacing the funding to match what we have received from the SPF or that which we previously received from the European social fund has gone. Its scale is unachievable by the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast
We had no input into the profiling of the money, and the Member is right: the roller coaster nature of how we are funded makes my job more difficult. Earlier today, before the Chancellor spoke, I received a briefing on the funding from the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. The Chancellor then made her address, after…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast
It will be up to the Executive to decide how the funding is spent. I have no doubt that the Education Minister will be making a very strong case in relation to the SEN pressures that he faces. The Health Minister will be making a very strong case. The Economy Minister and others will be making very strong cases as…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast
If one thing has been proven today, it is that the allegation of financial mismanagement that has been thrown at the Executive by Mr O'Toole and some commentators has been blown out of the water. The British Government had to bail out their own councils to the tune of £5 billion because they had been historically…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast
Thank you for the opportunity to update Members on the Chancellor’s spring forecast. The forecast set out that the Executive will receive an additional £390 million over the next three years, £380 million of which is resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL) funding, with £9 million in capital. The majority of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Finance: Chancellor’s Spring Forecast
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