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  2. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    This may be the first time in quite a while that I will have spoken for five minutes without saying something controversial, but I will try. Thank you for the warm words of welcome that all Members have given me. If I looked somewhat surprised when some Members walked over, shook my hand and said, "Welcome. You are a…

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  4. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    The Member mentioned the cost of the delivery plan. It is not broken down into clear cost lines for all the actions. Does the Member not think that having a more detailed cost analysis would help us to decide what we really need to deliver from the plan and should prioritise?

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  6. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    I commend the Member opposite for making a very passionate speech about special educational needs and not making it political. I mean that genuinely, Danny. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the issue today. I start by recognising its sensitivity for many parents in Northern Ireland. I also recognise the amazing…

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  7. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    It is really sad that we are here again today to talk about the failures in special educational needs that our children face daily. I cannot describe how angry and frustrated I was before recess that we could not get the Minister to come to the Chamber to talk about the plans for families who had not been placed at…

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  8. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    I was just pointing out that I literally prefaced my remarks by saying that I acknowledged the excellent work that classroom assistants do. You are misrepresenting what I said. That is clearly not what I said.

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  9. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    This is a genuine question. Does the Member have any evidence that one-to-one support is the best route? I respect the jobs that all of those workers do, but, surely, when it comes to education policy, we all want to be informed by what is the best route for our children, rather than other concerns. If there is…

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  11. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I commend the Members of the Alliance Party who tabled the motion. I disagree with nothing in it, but it needs to be strengthened, hence the amendment in my name. I am happy to support the amendment in Mr Gaston's name. I am at a loss as to why the amendments are mutually exclusive, but…

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  13. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker. The Assembly has before it a motion highlighting the ongoing crisis in special educational needs provision, and I commend the Alliance Party for bringing it to the House. It is timely, given that it is the start of another school year. The issue has received quite a bit of focus in…

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  15. Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Crisis in Provision

    I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am proud that our first motion after recess focuses on children with special educational needs. That group of children and their families feel largely invisible and forgotten until the annual SEND crisis placement comes around. Placements are an acute issue that is worthy…

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  16. Debate contribution: Assembly Business

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. During Question Time, I asked the deputy First Minister for an update on the international relations strategy. She responded by saying that international engagement as a priority area is a non-devolved area. There is a full directorate on intergovernmental international relations, and…

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  17. Debate contribution: Windsor Framework

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    He must have been told off when he made that statement. The Member is right to point out the demeaning attitude of the parties across the way to the debate and the issues that businesses and consumers face, but would they dare to tell businesses and consumers to grow up?

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  19. Debate contribution: Windsor Framework

    Thank you, Mr Speaker. For the first day back, it has been a spirited debate, but it did not take long for some of the typical accusations and slanging to come from across the Chamber. First, there was a tantrum from the leader of the Opposition, Mr O'Toole, who told us to "grow up". Does that not summarise the SDLP's…

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  20. Debate contribution: Windsor Framework

    That is a debate for another day. The Windsor framework was heralded by some as a solution, but, really, it was a deal that sold the people of Northern Ireland the false promise of delivering on the promises that were made by Brexit. In reality, what it did was entrench the Irish Sea border, which tethers us to rules…

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  22. Debate contribution: Windsor Framework

    Mr Speaker, it is not the first time that people have made that mistake. Mr Buckley is about 20 years younger than I am, but I will take the compliment — and on the posters in Lagan Valley, if a few more had made that mistake and voted for me, I might have been in Westminster, but anyway —.

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  24. Debate contribution: Windsor Framework

    I thank the Member for giving way. Whilst I agree that the motion lays bare the situation that faces small business under the Windsor framework, would the Member accept that, in not having this place and his right to articulate that view, he would, essentially, be surrendering it to a UK and Labour Government, who are…

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  25. Debate contribution: Windsor Framework

    Well, it did not take long. On our first day back, we have already seen the sneering of the nationalist and republican alliance in the House. It has re-emerged after the summer break, all to hide their embarrassment at the decision and the call that they made for the rigorous implementation of the protocol. That is…

    Flagged Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty Criteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging.

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