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All of Ms Michelle O'Neill’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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We are all committed to good relations and to lifting up everybody in society. Given the complexity of our past, when we look to today and to the future, prosperity should be the thing that unites us all. We need to allow everybody to prosper. That is what I and the deputy First Minister are determined to do: to build…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Legacy Act Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Legacy Act
I assure the Member — we have shown it to date — that, when it came to finding efficiencies in the Department, we did not touch that area and were able to protect that funding. That remains our position. The Member is absolutely right: when the legislation comes into effect on Wednesday of this week, it effectively…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Legacy Act Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Legacy Act
No, I did not say that. To be clear, I agree with you: it cannot be for just the payment itself; it has to be for the services and the wrap-around support. That needs to be absolutely factored into the contributions. I can envisage no situation where, if a payment came forward, it would be given back to the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Redress Scheme: Payments from Institutions Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Redress Scheme: Payments from Institutions
I am satisfied that the framework that is being developed is the fairest way to advance these conversations, so I am satisfied that Paul Sweeney, who heads up the work on our behalf, is challenging, pushing back and thoroughly investigating the contributions of the institutions. However, we are not at the end of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Redress Scheme: Payments from Institutions Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Redress Scheme: Payments from Institutions
The Executive are committed to transformation. We know that we can transform things, and we know that we can do things better. We will always be stronger at doing those things when we work in partnership and provide the leadership that is required. That is the case in health and education and across all of our public…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Block Grant: Fair Funding Model Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Block Grant: Fair Funding Model
I thank the Member for that question. As he knows, that has been the number-one issue for the Executive. We acknowledged from day one that the funding that was on the table was never going to be enough and that we needed to get to a point where we had a sustainable budget situation and were in a much better fiscal…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Block Grant: Fair Funding Model Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Block Grant: Fair Funding Model
Yes. I do not think that we can pick and choose across the institutions. It is really important that we respect all parts of the Good Friday Agreement and all institutions of the Good Friday Agreement, so I recognise the importance of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly. I repeat the point: we are all better…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Political Cooperation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Political Cooperation
Yes, and that builds on the previous question. The North/South Ministerial Council, which I will make a statement to the Assembly about tomorrow and give feedback on, is an important part of the jigsaw of the institutions of the Good Friday Agreement. It is important that all elements of that agreement are up and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Political Cooperation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Political Cooperation
Let me be clear: I have no truck with the hard right, as the Member well knows. I absolutely support a migration policy and system that is fair, efficient, enforceable and compassionate. We must do everything to make sure that anything that is done is human-rights-compliant. That should be the underlying factor in…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Open Border Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Open Border
It is really important that we respect all sets of relationships across our two islands and that we work on the basis of being good neighbours. Obviously, when it comes to the constitutional position, what I want to achieve and what the deputy First Minister wants to achieve are different things, but that is OK. We…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Open Border Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Open Border
With your permission, Mr Speaker, junior Minister Reilly will answer the question.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Urban Villages: North Belfast Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Urban Villages: North Belfast
I have set out the complexities. It is important that we, as a society that has come from conflict, do everything that we can to support victims, survivors and people who have been impacted on by conflict. The category of people that you refer to is not currently under the remit of the scheme, but I take on board what…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme
Thank you. It is something that we are looking at. We are very aware of the issues affecting bereaved victims and survivors. We are very keen to address their needs and to acknowledge the ongoing loss felt by many. Our Department has, for many years, been funding the Victims and Survivors Service (VSS) to provide…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme
Sorry. I did not hear the end of your question.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme
Funding for the victims' payments scheme continues to be an area of significant concern for the Executive. We are aware that the Finance Minister, Dr Caoimhe Archibald, is engaged in a formal dispute process with the Treasury in London. The issue was noted in the Executive's letter to the Prime Minister and discussed…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme
As I said, there are a number of complexities built into the system for gathering information and doing the due diligence work, but each application is unique and brings with it its own set of complexities. For example, another added complication is that one in three applications includes multiple relevant incidents,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme
I acknowledge the importance of the victims' payments scheme to victims and survivors. It recognises the suffering of those who have a permanent disablement as a result of the conflict and provides the financial support that they need to help them move forward with their lives. As of the week commencing 22 April,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme
As a body corporate, the commission continues to be in legal existence in the absence of a commissioner. In the current context, the chief executive officer is responsible for the day-to-day business of the commission. The commission continues to operate on the basis of the work programme that was agreed by the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Commissioner for Victims and Survivors Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Commissioner for Victims and Survivors
As the deputy First Minister has emphasised in the Chamber previously, ensuring that victims and survivors have a strong, independent voice remains a key priority for the Executive. The appointment of a new Commissioner for Victims and Survivors is essential to inform the development of policies and to help ensure…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Commissioner for Victims and Survivors Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Commissioner for Victims and Survivors
It is important that victims and survivors hear directly from the deputy First Minister and me about the policy proposals that we want to take forward. Engagement has happened in a number of ways up to this point. In keeping with the recommendations of the report, TEO officials have worked closely with victims and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’ Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’
The engagement has been going on for quite some time, as many Members have indicated. It is so important to do it in an ongoing way. It is happening across a number of areas. We had the initial engagement with the institutions, and our officials wrote to the relevant institutions and offered a briefing across the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’ Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’
I absolutely agree that, as I said in the previous answer, women who were in mother-and-baby institutions, Magdalene laundries or the workhouses have all waited for far too long for truth, justice and acknowledgement. What many of those women experienced and endured in those institutions is probably beyond the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’ Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’
The deputy First Minister and I have met our officials on this issue. Both of us have made it very clear that our priority is to get the legislation through the Executive and into the Assembly for discussion, debate and voting through. It is important that we continue to work with the victims and survivors to take…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’ Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’
We have been unwavering in our commitment to implement the five key recommendations in the truth recovery design panel's report on 'Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene laundries and Workhouses'. That includes the commitment to an integrated truth investigation and related public inquiry. The first stage of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’ Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ‘Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland’
I cannot put a monetary value on what is being sought from each institution, the reason being that the negotiations in live play. They are ongoing and sensitive. They are each at different stages of what we have been able to establish from the data and the finances, so it is important that we give space to the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board: Compensation Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board: Compensation Scheme
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