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Mr Keith Buchanan: Assembly records
All of Mr Keith Buchanan’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Minister, I am a wee bit confused. While I appreciate the court's ruling, your party has now created complete doubt, given the previous Member's question on whether anybody should challenge that ruling. The other day, the First Minister said in the House that she will do what she thinks is right. One day, you agree…
First Minister, your actions over the past few week have made your definition of a shared future clear to me and the 1·9 million to two million people living in Northern Ireland. On the Garvaghy Road, you held the hand of Mr Mac Cionnaith, the bomber of Portadown, who called me an "effer": I am an Orangeman, but I am…
Language is important, deputy First Minister. Some people in the House do not understand that. A recent appeal report from the Victims' Payments Board to a lady who had lost her husband stated: "The description of the room in which she saw the surgeon and her husband was vague". Deputy First Minister, a lady in her…
Minister, I appreciate that the relationship between you and the farming community is not good. What can you do to support the community to help it with the Lough Neagh issue? In the past, the finger was pointed at them, but we know that it is not all their fault. They are not completely clean, but it is not all their…
Minister, you can be sure that you have one friend in Mid Ulster. I appreciate that you do not have many others, but you have one friend here. You talked about collaboration in your statement. What level of collaboration was there and with whom, and what plans are there for future collaboration?
Minister, this country does not have a good track record on letting murderers out. It has let them out for years and years, but, obviously, this is a more recent case, so we cannot really be too proud of that. My question relates to handcuffing, and I mentioned this last week during the question for urgent oral…
Following on from the previous question, I would like a bit more clarity. The Prison Service was not happy that that individual be released, but the court overturned its decision. Who made the decision that the individual would be accompanied by a civilian chaperone and not by someone from the Prison Service? Was the…
The word "offended" is referenced. I have listened to the debate — I did not listen on the previous day — but I am offended that the Union flag is not referenced in the Bill. Does that mean that we in Northern Ireland cannot fly the Union flag because of the Bill. Conversation over.
I appreciate the point that you have to spend so much on active travel. I do not disagree with that; I agree. I will not drill into the Cookstown one. It is built now, but the money could have been better spent on active travel schemes that would have done more. However, my point is that we cannot walk on the existing…
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I appreciate that we have a full House here, so I will try to keep my remarks short. I appreciate the opportunity to raise the issue of road conditions in Mid Ulster. Broadly speaking, the debate could cover any area of Northern Ireland. I appreciate that the debate has been delayed from…
Minister, in your answer, you referred to how you are doing all that you can on water quality. In May, in a constituency beside mine, six to 10 sheep, one calf and 20 to 30 lambs were dumped in a river. No farmer dumps animals in a river, so, in my eyes, whoever did that is not a farmer. Those animals are still in…
Deputy First Minister, you referred to the Climate Change Act. A lot of Members are shouting about what needs to be done and what needs to be built, yet they support the Act. What needs to happen to reverse it and move forward to develop and build the roads and big infrastructure that those Members want built but will…
Minister, I will read out the text of my question for oral answer: "To ask the Minister of Justice to outline how her Department can contribute to addressing community concerns regarding criminality associated with illegal immigration." Minister, we watched a gentleman having his head nearly removed on the street.…
Minister, in your answer, you referred to PCSPs and the work that they do on the ground. Is there an opportunity for your Department, through the Policing Board, to provide more funding for PCSPs to enable them to do more of that work?
Minister, I was contacted on Friday by a lady whose brother was in Muckamore — a lady who did not tell her story. Now the report has come out and sparked a degree of need for her to speak. I use the word "need", but that is maybe not the best word. What can that lady do now? What is her avenue at this stage to speak,…
I thank the Minister for that answer. We are starting to see the impact of investment into local communities through funds from the Ulster-Scots Agency and the Arts Council. In the past, Sinn Féin has been critical about your priorities, complaining recently that consistent funding for Ulster Scots and bands was for…
Minister, there seems to be a lot of misinformation on Sunday trading hours. We heard 57% mentioned by Ms Bradshaw: that is a change from 15% in Belfast. Are trade unions for the change? Is the position in Northern Ireland an anomaly?
Minister, what would you say to genuine people — most people are genuine — who have serious concerns that are sometimes not taken on board? We can see from social media that people are organising rallies, although some of that information may not be true. What do you say to genuine people who are fearful? There are…
Thank you, deputy First Minister, for your answer. The burden has been put on the sector to work with groups that deal with people who have suffered dramatically over the lifetime of the Troubles and up to the present time. Groups like Mid Ulster Victims Empowerment (MUVE), which I work with directly every week, do…
Thank you for that non-answer, First Minister. Over the weekend, we watched, in the Dublin Central and Galway West by-elections, the catastrophic failure of your party and its pipe dream down there. Will you now bring your focus back to the six counties of Northern Ireland and let Mary Lou go ahead with whatever she…
I welcome yesterday's High Court ruling that the Police Ombudsman's public statements alleging collusive behaviour by RUC officers must now carry a formal notice warning that the ombudsman exceeded her legal powers. In the eyes of many in the police family, as well as in the wider unionist community, the Office of the…
I thank the Minister for his answer. Will he provide an update on what he and his Department are doing to tackle benefit fraud? I do not want to be labelled as "far right", but there are people out there who are doing benefit fraud. There is no grey area with respect to that.