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Mr Paul Frew: Assembly records

All of Mr Paul Frew’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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  5. Debate contribution: Business Support: North Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Minister for her answer. Ballymena in North Antrim has been in the press for all the wrong reasons due to the violence. Given that footfall is down, some eateries cannot now get chefs and workers have had to flee and go home, what specific support can the Minister give businesses in Ballymena that have…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  6. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Minister for giving way. He raises a valid and important point. Clause 6(4) states: "(a) the Council may consider the likely effect of that policy, or any alternative policies, on the public finances, but (b) must not make any recommendation as to the adoption or rejection of that policy, or as to the…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  7. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    Like my colleague Diane Forsythe, I support the Bill. It is long overdue. As the Chair of the Committee said, it was to be in last year's legislative programme, but, at least, we have it in front of us today. I am one of the MLAs who would say that we should not have more fiscal powers, simply because we do not have…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  8. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. He makes a valid point, with which I agree. Is that not covered, however, in the fiscal sustainability reports that the Fiscal Council must produce?

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  11. Debate contribution: The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

    • Executive Committee Business

    I note all the concerns that have been shared here tonight about this process and the Act. However, all of that does not amount to a hill of beans, because we have already missed the bus on this. In one fell swoop, we have been transformed back into the zombie Assembly zone, and nothing that anyone here, including the…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  12. Debate contribution: Adult Protection Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Minister for giving way. We have seen examples in the past of people who were appointed to be an independent to hold Departments to account, but, because of that budgetary line, did not feel so much that they could complain or argue against the Department that funded them. What about clause 33(1)? It…

    Not flagged

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  13. Debate contribution: Adult Protection Bill: Second Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    As all my colleagues have, I support the Bill. We have been waiting a long time for it. Mahatma Gandhi said: "The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members." Eddie Lynch used that quote in his report on his investigation into Dunmurry Manor care home. I am interested, simply…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  15. Debate contribution: Newcomer Support

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Minister for his answer. I direct him to his Department's Building Successful Communities programme, which had six pilot areas, including one in the Doury Road area of my North Antrim constituency. The programme was able to bring together people from the Protestant, Catholic and Travelling communities. It…

    Not analysed

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  16. Debate contribution: Carbon Budget: Emissions

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    The Minister has raised many times in the Chamber today the issue of climate change targets and his legal obligations under them. Will he urge his party and the Assembly to row back on unachievable climate change targets that are highly damaging to the people of Northern Ireland, as seen in the A5 project?

    Not flagged

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  17. Member's statement: Supreme Court Gender Ruling

    • Members' Statements

    I do not need a court decision to know what a woman is and what is required to keep them safe. In many ways, to us, it is complete common sense. Unfortunately, however, women and girls in this country need that protection from the courts. The recent Supreme Court judgement was a common-sense ruling that reaffirmed the…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  22. Written question AQW 29273/22-27

    • Department for the Economy

    To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the support her Department provides for people over the age of 18 with autism and severe learning disabilities, wishing to attend further education but who need assistance with transport, having availed of an essential taxi service throughout all their school years.

    Not flagged

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  23. Debate contribution: End Israeli Impunity in Gaza

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you, Mr Speaker. Of course, when the SDLP speaks, there is always a "but" with regard to the motions that it brings forward. Let me speak to the UUP amendment. I will put "I" in front of this. I express: "grave concern that the scale and conduct of its military campaign in Gaza has caused levels of destruction…

    Not flagged

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  25. Debate contribution: End Israeli Impunity in Gaza

    • Private Members' Business

    I am absolutely astounded by the position of the SDLP and the Alliance Party. Why have I picked those two parties out from all the rest? It is because I do not believe for one moment that those two parties, the SDLP and Alliance, would produce a motion like this. If I were to see the motion and the amendment side by…

    Flagged Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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