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Mr Pádraig Delargy: Assembly records
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I thank the Member for giving way. I want to come back to the Executive point, because it is the one that I am really concerned about. When you say that you are going to check how the Executive are performing against one standard, you are setting yourself up for failure, because you are holding the fact that there is…
Thank you. I suppose that I am talking about the wholescale blockage of any progress. I understand that what you suggest and what is in the Bill is about trying to advance across all Departments, and I am absolutely supportive of that. However, I am realistic as well, and the reality is that that might not be the…
I thank the Member for giving way. I agree with a lot of what he has said. On your point about the Executive, I will raise a constructive concern. I have a worry, which I hope that others across the Chamber, including yourself, will have picked up on, about the fact that this potentially gives the DUP a break and…
I thank the Member for giving way. This is a brilliant Bill. It is about enhancement; I share in your comments on that. One of the things that can be enhanced — hopefully, we can do this at Committee Stage — is data sharing to ensure that we do not do something independently that has a potentially negative impact on…
I thank the Member for giving way. I have two points to make. First, we are talking about Belfast in a very generic sense. I very much recognise that there are areas in Belfast that do not get the investment that they need and that have historically not got the investment that they need, particularly North Belfast,…
I thank the Member, and I welcome that. I have noted both of those points. It is about how we strengthen that to ensure that there is an impetus on the South to do that as well. I agree with what is there, but we can enhance that and create a stronger framework. My worry is that border communities such as ours may not…
Totally. I thank the Member for the intervention. The biggest evidence base for that is the fact that people in Derry and other regions across the North are seeing the change, talking about it and feeling it. The fact that the biggest R&D development last year was in Derry, at Seagate, shows that change. The change is…
I thank the Member for her intervention. As she said, we are on a trajectory and moving in the right direction. There is more change to come, but, as we have all agreed, huge change in Invest was needed. That change has started to happen. I recently met the new regional manager of Invest in Derry, whose vision I am…
Thank you. It is not just the Department for the Economy but all Departments — AERA, Infrastructure, Communities and all the others — that should be involved in it. Sinn Féin specifically took on the Department for the Economy to bring tangible and real change to people's lives and undo the economic legacy of 100…
I thank the Member for bringing the Bill to the House, because it targets a lot of the regional balance commitments on which my party and her party agree and that other parties in the House have brought forward as well. I agree with the overarching argument that regional balance needs to be central, not an…
I welcome the Bill and the progress that it represents. Often, when we talk in the House about energy production, generation and storage, the conversation becomes technical, but at the heart of the Bill is ensuring that ordinary people can feel the benefits of it and see that money in their pockets. Particularly this…
Go raibh maith agat. I thank the deputy First Minister for her response. She knows that there are many conflicting accounts of how AI is used. People in the public sector in particular want reassurance that their data will be protected. What is the Executive Office doing to ensure that, particularly in public-sector…
I echo what other Members have said. Compassion is at the heart of the regulations, which are about understanding and ensuring that parents and families who have suffered the most heartbreaking and unimaginable grief are supported through one of the most difficult times in their lives. As a member of the Committee for…
To ask the Minister of Education whether any assessment has been made of the criteria used to propose the closure of St Columba’s Primary School, New Buildings.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any appeals process available to St Columba’s Primary School, New Buildings, given the proposal for closure.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any steps his Department plans to take in the (i) short; and (ii) medium, term to support St Columba’s Primary School, New Buildings.
To ask the Minister of Education whether any assessment has been made of the potential impact the closure of St Columba’s Primary School, New Buildings, will have on access to Catholic Maintained education for families in the area.