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Given the conversation that we have just had on violence against women, it is important to put on record the fact that Donald Trump was found liable by a jury in a New York court of sexually assaulting a woman and that there have been numerous other allegations against him. May I ask that, in your and your office's…
I thank the Member for his question. At this stage, the First Minister will not attend the state banquet with President Trump. I engage with people, politicians and leaders from all the different shades of political opinion. As far as I am concerned, it is not about what I feel about them or even about my view of…
I thank the Minister for her answer and her work in that area. There has scarcely been a more important time to engage with the president of the United States. The deputy First Minister had to step up on St Patrick's Day this year when the First Minister decided not to show leadership. What are the plans in that…
I thank the Member for his question. President Trump's unprecedented second state visit to the UK is an opportunity to showcase Northern Ireland's strengths, build relationships with the president and his team and boost trade and investment. Using the visit to build personal ties is particularly important given the…
I thank the Member for her important question. She is absolutely right: justice in Northern Ireland is much too slow. It really affects people, not just those who are waiting to appear before the courts but the victims' families, who have to suffer for many months if not years while they wait for their cases to come…
I thank the deputy First Minister for her reference to the conference that we attended on Friday. One of the issues that is really important to families who have experienced that type of terrible violence is the justice system and, in particular, the length of time that it takes for cases to come before the courts.…
I thank the Member for her question. It is one of the six key outcomes: working better together. That means all parts of our system working together to try to tackle it. Just last week, we had the privilege and honour of attending an ending violence against women and girls conference at Craigavon Integrated College.…
I acknowledge the leadership that the First Minister and deputy First Minister have shown in highlighting ending the scourge of violence against women and girls. Making progress will require a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach. Can the deputy First Minister provide an update on how TEO is working…
I thank the Member for her question. It is incredibly important that all the actions arising from that are fit for purpose. I have said to the House previously that I have had somebody charged and convicted under the online safety legislation. He pleaded guilty and is currently in custody. That is a demonstration,…
I thank the deputy First Minister for her response, and I echo her comments about those awful tragedies. Does the deputy First Minister regard online safety for our children and young people as a priority? If so, is the online safety strategy and action plan that we have at the moment good enough?
Before I begin, with your indulgence, Mr Speaker, I would like to take a moment to reflect on the tragic deaths of Vanessa Whyte and her two children, James and Sara Rutledge. Those were absolutely horrific murders, and I have no doubt that everyone across the House shares in the horror of what happened. It…
Thank you very much: you are always generous in giving way. I recognise that, when the Member was in Downing Street, as he often tells us, he was fulfilling the Tory party's wishes at that time. That may not have been his personal wish, but it is what he was doing. It is interesting, however, to hear nationalism in…
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I thank the Member for giving way. Will he accept that an issue, support for which has deeply divided Northern Ireland and continues to affect Northern Ireland businesses of all sorts, is worthy of debate in the Assembly?
I will be happy to give way in a moment; I just want to outline some of my points. It will come as no surprise to anybody in the Chamber that the SDLP will oppose the motion and the amendment. I will say this: the Murphy review offers practical ideas for smoothing processes in moving goods from Britain into Northern…
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Here we are again. We return after a summer break with, as Mr Tennyson said, public services in crisis, Lough Neagh dying in front of us, race and sectarian hate crime on the rise and a list of other things to debate, and, sure as day follows night, we have a motion on the Windsor framework in which the DUP seeks to…
Thank you very much indeed, Eóin. At the moment, the question over that scheme is the fact that reimbursement takes so long. Will you join us in calling on HMRC to get its finger out and, rather than waiting nine months to pay people, do it within 14 days?
It is telling that the first motion that we are debating in the Chamber on our return from summer recess is not about the crisis that faces children with special educational needs, hospital waiting lists, the ecological crisis that faces Lough Neagh or the cost-of-living crisis bearing down on our constituents;…
It has to be said that, to me, the motion reads as little more than the TUV tail wagging the DUP dog, to be honest. Members, as you are all well aware, next June will mark a decade — 10 years — since the Brexit referendum in which the majority of people in the North voted to remain in the European Union. The majority…
I thank the Member for giving way, unlike the Member for East Belfast. Earlier, you mentioned problems that businesses have faced. The Economy Committee took a presentation from the FSB following the report that it produced, and we were told, as the report outlines, that just over 700 businesses contributed to it out…
I thank the Member for giving way. He raises an interesting point. Surely we are now at the point where, although the UK Government are determined to have a reset of relationships, as they call it, with the EU, that is actually going beyond that point and is now undermining more businesses in Northern Ireland that…