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Ms Sinéad McLaughlin: Assembly records
All of Ms Sinéad McLaughlin’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I beg to move I am pleased to move the motion as we mark Black History Month 2026. Black History Month has its roots in America in the long struggle for equality, dignity and basic civil rights. It is a struggle that saw people take to the streets demanding an end to racial segregation, discrimination and denial of…
The reform that you have outlined does not give me a great deal of reassurance. The situation is urgent, and we need urgent steps to be taken in order to stop dentists leaving the health service. What urgent steps can you take to stop that immediately? There are dental deserts across all of our communities in Northern…
Obviously, specialist provision in mainstream schools is really important. You mentioned how many schools will be involved in that. I have heard about the classes that will be involved. Can you tell us the number of places that will be provided?
The vacuum is causing severe strain on businesses, colleges and organisations across the economy. They are being asked to plan, invest and create jobs without any certainty of what funding is available for next year. Minister, do you accept that an Executive who cannot agree their own Budget are making it harder for…
Minister, such redundancies do not happen in isolation. In your answers, you said that the absence of a Budget is making the situation even more difficult. While we are supposed to be expanding Magee to 10,000 students, Ulster University is simultaneously being forced to cut jobs. How can those two things possibly be…
Minister, your predecessor recognised that deprivation and regional inequality have a direct impact on health outcomes. With patients in Altnagelvin Area Hospital facing lengthy waits for hip surgery and everything else, what are you doing to ensure that that inequality is not being compounded by unequal access to…
Does the Member not agree that Second Stage is about discussing the principles of a Bill? Everything that we have heard from nearly every Member on his side of the House has gone into the minutiae of the Bill. It is for the Committee to do that, if those Members could release the Bill and let it go to Committee. The…
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank Members across the House for their contributions to what has been a short debate but an important conversation. I make it clear that the motion is not anti-AI or anti-investment. Artificial intelligence has enormous potential. Stewart Dickson outlined, and other…
I want to be absolutely clear that what we are talking about is that, before large-scale development takes place around data centres, we need to entirely understand and be reasonable. What are the consequences, and will there be economic benefits? Today, modern data centres can be built on a green policy and a very…
— are not moving forward. Do you regret taking so long to bring the draft Bill to the Executive, and do you regret the fact that the delays could set workers' rights back years?
Minister, the public spat between you and the business community has been unedifying. A part of political leadership is finding consensus in difficult situations, yet the delayed 'good jobs' Bill did not reach the Executive until April. In the meantime, workers across the North have fallen even further behind their…
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank everyone for their contributions today. On the whole, the debate was widely positive, and I was really encouraged by many of the comments from across the Chamber. I want to address some of the recurring comments made by Members, because there are many issues that we have…
Thank you, Minister, for giving way. I just want to mention the judicial review, which you raised with me earlier. Any public authority exercising any statutory power can potentially be subject to judicial review. The threat of review should not prevent us taking forward legislation. It is about ensuring that we put…
I really like what you are saying about the data. In such tight financial times, how we spend our money is really important, because we need to know what the impact of the spending will be and how it will improve people's lives. At this point, I am not entirely convinced that we spend money to get the best outcomes…
Thank you for giving way, Julie, and for your support for the Bill. I reaffirm that the Bill is structured in such a way that every Department has a duty and a responsibility to feed information in. From the outset, the framework will have objectives, and the Executive must say what they want to achieve. There have to…
Sorry: I do not know where you read that in the Bill. I have not said that at all. The Bill is not about duplicating Belfast and creating multiple Belfasts: we know that different regions have different barriers and require different interventions. It is not about creating a mirror copy of anything. Fivemiletown will…
I will add that, at the moment, rural communities face higher fuel costs, higher transport costs and challenges with accessing services. Those are added expenses when one lives in rural communities, and those drive up poverty. There are lots of stats on rural poverty, and it increases the further one gets from the…
I totally agree with you. In the development of the Bill, I consulted widely, including with economists across the border. I brought one of them to the Committee to give evidence — John Daly, from the Northern and Western Regional Assembly. We worked with the Nevin Economic Research Institute, the Economic and Social…