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  1. Debate contribution: Housing: Antisocial Behaviour

    My office and others are experiencing a worrying trend whereby unresolved antisocial behaviour drives families to request transfers, displacing families and adding further pressure to the housing waiting list. Families have often been placed in what they describe as their "dream home" —.

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  2. Debate contribution: Housing: Antisocial Behaviour

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Yes. Discussions have been ongoing. There was a joint consultation on that with the Department of Justice, and we will look at all the avenues that are open to us to make sure that we can tackle the scourge of antisocial behaviour, which is causing exceptional difficulties for many people.

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  4. Debate contribution: Housing: Antisocial Behaviour

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Several areas in my Department help to take forward that sort of work. I welcome that. The particular policy proposals that we are talking about right now will have gone to all Ministers for their comment. I look forward to hearing from them, if they have not commented already.

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  5. Debate contribution: Housing: Antisocial Behaviour

    What contact has the Minister had with other Departments — I think specifically about work by the Department of Education, our youth workers, his Department through community development and the Department of Justice — about increasing and improving diversionary activity in the hotspot troubled areas in our estates?

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  6. Debate contribution: Housing: Antisocial Behaviour

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Absolutely. Any public representative who is in touch with their communities will see complaints about a small number of people who make life exceptionally difficult for others. It is time that we used the powers that are available to us and provided for more powers if necessary. I want the Bill to be introduced in…

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  7. Debate contribution: Housing: Antisocial Behaviour

    I thank the Minister for that response. I am sure that, like me, he is frustrated at good people and good tenants being terrorised by bad people and bad tenants. His announcement today is important, but will the Minister indicate when the measures that he refers to will be brought to the House?

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  8. Debate contribution: Housing: Antisocial Behaviour

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    My Department has developed proposals that will ensure that social landlords have appropriate powers to deal with antisocial behaviour. I have brought forward a paper for the Executive’s consideration outlining proposals to amend legislation, specifically injunctions against unacceptable behaviour, grounds for…

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  9. Debate contribution: Communities Delivery: Upper Bann

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Thank you, Principal Deputy Speaker. I am here to deliver on behalf of all communities in Northern Ireland. I have delivered in the Member's constituency, and I look forward to making more announcements shortly about how we are investing. We look at regional balance, of course, and that is taken into consideration in…

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  14. Debate contribution: Communities Delivery: Upper Bann

    Minister, that is a new one for us: you answer the Member for Upper Bann by directing your reply to the SDLP. It is a bit strange, but you are the Minister. How can you ensure regional fairness and balance in investment decisions in your Department? Has the Department for Communities not adopted that policy priority?…

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  15. Debate contribution: Communities Delivery: Upper Bann

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    We can take responsibility only for what is within our gift and what is our responsibility. Decisions were made by the council, and those decisions stand. I am always happy to meet and see what alternative pathways there are, but I have to operate within the law. I am happy to do anything further that we can do,…

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  16. Debate contribution: Communities Delivery: Upper Bann

    That rolled off your tongue wonderfully, Minister; it did not sound as though you prepared it at all. I raise this again: the historic environment division and Knock Iveagh. Are you looking at that, or is it dead in the water? The council needs to move on it.

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  17. Debate contribution: Communities Delivery: Upper Bann

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I look forward to continuing to deliver for Upper Bann and constituencies right across Northern Ireland. SDLP members are laughing, along with some in the Alliance Party. I remember when the leader of the Opposition came to the House to ask me when I would publish my housing supply strategy. I had published it six…

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  23. Debate contribution: Communities Delivery: Upper Bann

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Since February 2024, I have delivered the following for the people of Upper Bann: £1·8 million for the People and Place neighbourhood renewal programme; £3·5 million for the Banbridge public realm scheme; £247,000 for the Empty to Occupied scheme; and £300,000 for the Fit For Future scheme. I have also delivered…

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  24. Debate contribution: Councillors: Industrial Action

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    All that I can say is that that is an issue for the NAC itself. I had a meeting with the NAC on 7 July. I said that I wanted to listen to its concerns. I invited it to provide me with a paper outlining its views and said that I would consider any additional information on other issues that were raised, such as the…

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