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  3. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I will keep this short, as I know that some Members are trying to get off to the Northern Ireland match. The team had a great win on Friday, and I bet that the Member for North Belfast is now sorry that he tabled his anti-Irish language motion. I speak today with a deep sense of frustration that is shared by…

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  4. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I wish the First Minister well in her absence. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. It is a new experience for me, not least as some of Bills come from the then Infrastructure Minister O'Dowd's departmental legislative programme in March 2024, which preceded my coming here. The then Minister listed a number of…

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  5. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I thank the Member for giving way. As you know, my party is keen to see large-scale institutional reform of the Assembly and the Executive. Are you saying now that you would be fully supportive of us in changing the way that we do government here so that we cannot have that stop-start approach to government here?

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  6. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I would say that this legislative programme is as weak as water, but that would probably give it too much credit. What happened to "Doing What Matters Most" and making government work? It is almost symbolic that this publication has landed after the deadline, typical of the delay and dysfunction that has become a…

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  9. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I will speak first about a number of pieces of Health legislation that are in the programme and some that are not in the programme but which have previously been outlined to Members, particularly those on the Health Committee, as part of our first-day brief. I echo the sentiments expressed by Members, particularly my…

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  10. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I am pleased to welcome the legislative programme from the Executive Committee. It is an ambitious body of work for the session and one that I am sure that we are all eager to get our teeth into. As a member of the Communities and Infrastructure Committees, I am glad to see several pieces of legislation come our way…

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  11. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    With a reduced mandate, the Assembly and the Executive, right from the restoration in February 2024, were on the back foot with the time available to consider and pass legislation. Nevertheless, I welcome today's publication of the legislative programme. The list is likely to be accompanied by a range of Members'…

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  12. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I will focus my remarks on the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs. It is disappointing that the only legislation in the Executive legislation programme for 2025-26 that the AERA Minister has brought forward is the fisheries and water environment Bill. Although that is important legislation, the…

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  13. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I welcome the motion on the Executive legislation programme, which sets out an ambitious and wide-ranging future legislative agenda. I will take a moment to highlight some of the priorities that are coming forward. As a member of the AERA Committee, I welcome the inclusion of the fisheries and water environment Bill.…

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  14. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    As a member of the Executive Office Committee, I welcome the publication of the Executive's legislation programme. It is right that the Assembly debates it today and that we do so with honesty, because, despite all the talk of ambition, the programme is remarkably light on legislation. Of course, some legislation is…

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  15. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I obviously cannot speak for the Minister in my capacity as Chair, but given the truncated timescales that we have left, it is very unlikely that something of that significance will see the light of day. However, I am sure that all those things are up for discussion in the Chamber. The present Agriculture Act dates…

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  16. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I will be brief. He talked about the Bill that he wanted to see. Lots of us wanted to see a Bill to create an independent environmental protection agency. I think that we had it confirmed today that the opportunity for that has timed out and that it cannot happen in this mandate. Is that his understanding as Chair of…

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  19. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    First, I thank the deputy First Minister for moving the motion. When the Executive present their legislative programme, it is the opportunity for the "constructive" Opposition to tear into the Executive, highlight their failings and set out the Opposition's alternative legislative programme. It will not be lost on the…

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  20. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    To strike a positive note, I welcome the legislative programme that has been outlined and today's debate on it. As legislators, we must grasp every opportunity to improve the lives of the people whom we represent. In the Executive legislation programme for 2025-26, there is very worthwhile legislation from every…

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  23. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I thank the Member for giving way. It was remiss of me not to refer to the fact that the First Minister has a family emergency and asked me to step in and cover this item of business. We were to share it, with one opening the debate and the other winding it up. That is not the case due to her family circumstances.

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  24. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw, on a Friday, 10 days ago, that the legislative programme had arrived in my inbox. If the Executive are, according to their own Programme for Government, "Doing What Matters Most" and, as the deputy First Minister told me from the lectern just a few, short days…

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  25. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    I beg to move Thank you, Mr Speaker. We are pleased to present to the Assembly the Executive Committee's legislation programme for the 2025-26 session. On 3 October, the First Minister and I made a written ministerial statement to advise the Assembly of the legislation that Ministers of the Executive Committee intend…

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