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Ms Michelle O'Neill: Assembly records
All of Ms Michelle O'Neill’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
The initial question was about our strategy to end violence against women and girls. All women, all girls and everyone out there deserves to live in a place that is free from gender-based harm. That is the case whether you look backwards or forwards. The strategy is about how we can design a better society and have…
As the Member knows, when we launched the plan last week, we talked about how we will have an oversight board in place. That oversight board has already been established, and it will oversee the full development and implementation of the strategy. That is a mark of the seriousness with which we treat the subject. It…
We are very much focused on that whole-of-society approach, which does start close to home. If areas in the Civil Service require improvement, we should do our own homework there. I do not know what is lacking, but I am certainly happy to pick it up with the Finance Minister to make sure that we have the most…
Thank you. We are going to say a lot more about the change fund in the coming weeks when we have settled on the final application process etc. We will certainly talk to the Committee about that. You are right: £3 million has been earmarked over the first two years of the plan. We intend to target that funding keenly…
One of the four outcomes — the main focus — of the framework is, crucially, about prevention. We are aiming to get to a position where we have created a society that is absolutely free from violence against women and girls, gender-based violence and abuse and harm. Addressing that underlying cause is crucial if we are…
I note that question 1 has been withdrawn. I know that this was mentioned earlier in the House, but the Member who was due to ask that question was stranded last night at an airport in England due to it not having accessible services for him. I am sure that everybody will want to send their best wishes to our…
I thank the Member. I know that you also raised the issue earlier during Members' statements, so thank you for that. I also know that you will get behind the framework. All Executive Ministers signed up to the framework. It is now a collective Executive strategy, so it is down to the collective Executive to make it…
Yes, I am confident about that. Every Department has been involved and engaged in the work that we have done to get us to this point. The fact that the Executive have signed off on this as an Executive-wide strategy shows the commitment across the Executive to this work. I have no doubt that every Member in the…
Today, I am delighted that we are announcing Executive approval for the strategic framework to end violence against women and girls and its first delivery plan. Before I continue, I would like to remember all those women who have been tragically murdered in our community recently. I extend our sincere condolences to…
Thanks to the Member. I know that the Member is passionate about that issue. That is why we are asking you to engage with the draft Programme for Government: help to shape the final version. Everything that is littered across the nine priorities will affect older people; everything that we are trying to do will affect…
I can assure you that this is an Executive document, so it is owned by the four parties of the Executive. I know that you are relatively new to the Chamber, Mr Gaston, but you now have eight weeks to consider the document and you will be able to respond in much more detail than you have the opportunity to today. The…
Thanks for that. Lough Neagh has been given a particular focus, given the scale of the challenge that we face there and rightly so. However, alongside that, there are a number of other actions in the document around climate action. Publishing our first climate action plan will obviously be a welcome development. The…
Thank you for the question. I will build on the previous answer. You can see that regional balance is peppered through the document because the prosperity agenda is for everybody, regardless of where they live. It is really important that we get it right. When we reflect on the economic vision that the Economy…
I thank the Member. Welcome to the Assembly: I look forward to working with you. We share with many in the House the passion for trying to get this one right. Childcare, as the deputy First Minister said, has been our priority from day 1. I am really pleased with the advances that we have been able to make. They are…
I just do not agree. It is as simple as that. I say to the people who are on waiting lists and have been waiting a long time to get treatment that we will do absolutely everything that we can to help them get their treatment. We will work night and day to fix the health service, which has been put on its knees by a…
I can guarantee that it is a priority. It is one of the nine priorities that we have identified. As you said, collectively, we all have constituents who are in dire straits waiting to get into the health service. They are being forced to beg, borrow and steal sometimes to get private healthcare, and that is not…
I apologise to the deputy First Minister; I did not realise that I had answered two questions in a row. We are supposed to alternate, but anyway. I will take Mr Butler's question. We are launching a draft Programme for Government, and it does not get more real than that. That is what we are here to do. We are here to…
I appreciate the ongoing emphasis that the Member, alongside other colleagues, puts on that area. I am very pleased to say that, hopefully, next week, we will be able to announce our strategy to end violence against women and girls. The Executive signed off on that piece of work last week. As the Member rightly points…
Yes. We ask that engagement with the process be as wide as possible. Again, Committees and the Member, in his role as the Chair of a Committee, will have the opportunity to engage with people from across all sectors. We want to hear from the labour movement, civic society, the business community, academia and, of…
I look forward to working with the Committee Chair, the Deputy Chair and the entire Committee as we gather responses to the consultation. We need to send a strong message to wider society that this is a draft document and that we are listening. We are in listening mode. The document is the basis on which, we think, we…
I hope that the leader of the Opposition will continue in his constructive approach and engage with the draft Programme for Government that was published today. I am pleased that we have reached this point, that it is an ambitious and focused programme, that everyone in society will now get a chance to shape it into…
Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I welcome the fact that the Assembly has convened today and that we are very strongly united in standing firmly against the racism, violence and intimidation that we have witnessed over the past few days. I welcome the fact that we have many people in the Public Gallery today…
Opposition to Racism That this Assembly condemns the criminal damage and targeting of businesses in recent days; rejects all forms of Islamophobia, xenophobia and racism; endorses the work of voluntary sector organisations combatting racism and supporting those impacted by it; recognises the work of the Police Service…
Yes, absolutely. It is a source of shame for us as a society that women were so horribly failed. The historical treatment of and discrimination against women and girls is alive for us all to see, but this is our opportunity, as an Assembly and an Executive, to bring some healing to all the women, victims and survivors…
I thank the Member for her question. Absolutely, the protection of all unmarked graves in cemeteries is of the utmost importance. We have seen across the island of Ireland how that has been exposed as being a very real issue, and we are alive to what has happened in our shameful past and how women on this island have…