Debate contribution: USA Travel: Pre-clearance Process

Debate contribution by Mr Robbie Butler on 20 January 2025.

MLA: Mr Robbie Butler
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 20 January 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: USA Travel: Pre-clearance Process
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4744443

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I thank the First Minister for her further confirmation of the Executive Office's ambition on this. The inauguration of President Trump at 12.00 noon today offers a new dispensation with the American Government. We had some great performance from Joe Kennedy as the former Northern Ireland trade envoy. Will the First Minister give a commitment that the Executive Office will work proactively with President Trump to ensure that a special Northern Ireland envoy is in position as soon as possible, not in the last six months of his mandate as previously, and to seek the delivery of transatlantic routes and, indeed, pre-clearance at Belfast International?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 1364/22-27.

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