Debate contribution: Defective Premises Bill: Accelerated Passage
Debate contribution by Mr Brian Kingston on .
- MLA
- Mr Brian Kingston
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 3 June 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Executive Committee Business
- Heading
- Defective Premises Bill: Accelerated Passage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4493563
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As a DUP member of the Committee for Communities, along with my colleague Maurice Bradley MLA, I express our sincere condolences to the Committee Chairman, Colm Gildernew MLA, and his family circle on the tragic death of his nephew Fiachra at the weekend. We express our deepest sympathy to the Chairman and his family on the sudden loss of that young man's life. On the legislative matter that is before us, we welcome the proposal to progress this short Bill by accelerated passage. Hopefully, we will now do so. Members will be aware of the joint statement issued on 19 March 2024 by three Ministers — the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Andrew Muir; the Minister of Finance, Caoimhe Archibald; and the Minister for Communities, Gordon Lyons — between them representing three political parties in the Executive.
In that joint statement, the Ministers recognised the need to address the disparity between the legislative position in Northern Ireland on defective premises compared with that in the rest of the United Kingdom, and to do so at the earliest possible opportunity, subject to Executive and Assembly approval.
On 25 April, the full Executive Committee agreed to the introduction of the Defective Premises Bill and to the proposal to use the accelerated passage process to ensure that the Bill clears the Assembly as quickly as possible. The DUP stands by that position, which is that the Bill should progress under accelerated passage. I will say a little more about the matter in the Second Stage debate to follow.
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