Debate contribution: US/NI Cultural Working Group

Debate contribution by Mr Tom Buchanan on 14 January 2025.

MLA: Mr Tom Buchanan
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 14 January 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: US/NI Cultural Working Group
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4736575

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Thank you, Minister. Do you agree that the 250th anniversary of the United States is an excellent opportunity for Northern Ireland to showcase our rich historical links? Being parochial, I am thinking of the Ulster American Folk Park in my constituency, which you visited last year. The centenary of the Ferguson system master patent, which revolutionised the world's agriculture sector, will be marked on 12 February. Has any consideration been given to commemorating that historic event and to the possibility of having a Harry Ferguson museum, given that the Ferguson Belfast black prototype tractor, which was built in 1933, is now back in Belfast?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 893/22-27.

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