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Dr Steve Aiken OBE: Assembly records
All of Dr Steve Aiken OBE’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Finance, in light of comments by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in relation to the £9 billion Treasury Reserve, to detail any Executive Departments that have maximised their savings and may be able to access this funding.
To ask the Minister of Finance, in light of the Chancellors announcement on the £9 billion Treasury Reserve, to detail what additional pressures this places on Departments seeking budget relief through the reserve.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, following the recent announcement of a merger between the universities of Greenwich and Kent, to detail (i) any consideration her Department has made towards savings in the Higher Education Sector; and (ii) what indicative savings could be made by merging the senior management…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, following the work undertaken by DfI Roads on the Doagh, Hillhead and Ballyrobert Road areas, Ballyclare, whether capital released from the A5 Western Transport Corridor scheme can be used to repair the Ballycorr Road in South Antrim.
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. If possible, I would like to put some reason into the debate. Regrettably, the debate so far has just reinforced things that we have all said time and time again. We have had frequent mentions — on these Benches, we consider them to be inaccurate — of genocide, famine,…
Thank you very much indeed. My intervention is about the fact that one of the last things that David Lammy did before he stood down as Foreign Secretary was to identify the fact that the United Kingdom Government have concluded that Israel is not acting with intent and is therefore not conducting genocide. What is the…
I thank the Minister for his reply. One of the issues that we are having to deal with is that the Budget has been put back to the end of November. We have already seen the problems that our friends in Scotland and Wales have had in putting forward a three-year Budget. What contingencies have we put in place to look at…
The stopping of the MV Matthew in Irish territorial waters in 2023 by the LÉ William Butler Yeats, supported by the Irish Army Ranger Wing and aircraft from the Irish Air Corps, is to be commended. The seizure of 2·2 tons of cocaine was a significant drugs haul, but, judging from the changes in illicit drug prices…
It is only a wee short one, Diane. A Member talked about the changes in rates of trade back and forth. Has anybody identified the fact that those changes in trade equate to the diversion? If anybody were to look at the trade back and forth across the Irish Sea rather than just through a particular bit, they would see…
Thank you very much, Peter. There is another concern that should be expressed. I cannot understand how Members on this side of the House have been approached by lots of companies and individuals telling us about the real and significant problems, yet they do not seem to be talking to anybody else in the Chamber. Can…
Thank you very much indeed, Eóin. At the moment, the question over that scheme is the fact that reimbursement takes so long. Will you join us in calling on HMRC to get its finger out and, rather than waiting nine months to pay people, do it within 14 days?
I ask the Assembly to support our amendment to the important motion. There is a subtle difference between what the DUP has proposed and what we are saying. I declare an interest as a Member who supported the Remain campaign and as somebody who was involved in discussions with the then Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, to…
I thank the Member for giving way. It is not just small businesses. The Member will be aware that Marks and Spencer — other supermarkets are available — has made it clear that the issues are not with just small businesses but with even the largest businesses across our nation.
I will follow on from those words, as I, like many of us over the weekend, had the opportunity to thank the Irish Guards for their service. There were two events that, in particular, touched our armed forces community and our veterans. The first one, of course, was the laying-up of the colours in St Mark's Church in…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “End the Forced Starvation in Gaza”
End the Forced Starvation in Gaza - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘suffering from famine;’ and insert: ‘further notes that this crisis is man-made and results from restrictions on humanitarian access, obstruction by Israeli authorities, and diversion of aid by armed groups including Hamas; condemns the use of…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Moving Beyond the Windsor Framework”
Moving Beyond the Windsor Framework - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘ceased trade in Northern Ireland’ and insert: ‘notes that the recent Independent Review of the Windsor Framework is a missed opportunity to recognise the trade, economic and sovereignty challenges to both Northern Ireland and to the integrity of…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to outline how returning vested land along the route of the A5 Western Transport Corridor is conducive to the continuation of the project.