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Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I welcome the opportunity to speak about improving mobile phone coverage in West Belfast. I thank the Member for securing the debate. I am aware that her party has done a lot of local campaigning on the issue, and rightly so. I was chatting to David Honeyford — he joins me…
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I am from Fermanagh and South Tyrone, and we all know that west is best. As someone from the west speaking about mobile phone infrastructure, I sympathise wholeheartedly with people who cannot access good mobile phone coverage. I would love to have 4G in my area, never mind…
I thank the Member for West Belfast for securing an Adjournment debate on this important item for discussion. It is important that we discuss it in the Chamber. This issue has plagued a lot of constituents, particularly in West Belfast, for a long time. For years, people, particularly in the Glen Road and Andytown…
Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. My two colleagues have already outlined major difficulties that exist with the mobile phone network in West Belfast. I live just off the Glen Road, and I can attest to the fact that the signal is woeful. On many occasions, I have had calls drop. On one occasion, I…
Gabhaim buíochas le hÓrlaithí as an díospóireacht seo a chur osár gcomhair inniu. While it might seem small to some, this is a huge issue. Poor or next to no phone signal is affecting far too many people in West Belfast. Time and time again, I have experienced daily blackout spots, calls dropping out, or no signal at…
Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I begin by thanking the Minister for being here this afternoon on an issue that is extremely important to the constituents whom we represent in West Belfast. I will give a brief bit of background. We have been getting feedback from residents and workers from across our…
The opening words of the Member's winding-up speech were "illegal immigration": there is no illegal immigration in the United Kingdom until an individual has been determined by a due and legal process to be illegal, at which stage a process takes place to return them to the place that they came from. There are no…
The issue of the £400 million cost has been raised a couple of times. I would like to know where the anger is about the £23 billion still unpaid after the financial crash in 2008 by bankers and financial institutions or the £5·5 billion lost in tax avoidance schemes. Where is the anger, and how could that money be…
Third time is a charm. Does the Member or others worry, especially given the context that we are in, that there is a fine line between migration from legitimate concerns to legitimate targets in the racism that we have had?
I thank the Member for addressing the issue of genuine illegal immigration. Does he agree that it is worrying that, just last month, one of five Iranian refugees who crossed the English Channel was arrested for a terrorist plot in the United Kingdom?
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Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Illegal immigration is one of the hottest topics that people raise with me in political conversations, second only to housing. Our motion today combines those two issues in order to seek restrictions on the scale of the approval of houses of multiple occupancy, which, in some…
FlaggedDecided on a second assessment.Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and TravellersCriteria met: Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging.
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Today's debate has been robust, which it needed to be. It has not always been cool-headed, and the purpose in tabling the motion in the way that it was tabled was, in fact, almost revealed by something that was said by a speaker from the DUP Benches: it was designed to be…
Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will not need 15 minutes, for many of the reasons that have been mentioned. From the outset, I want to explain my perspective on migration. Like that of my colleagues, it has been shaped by republican values and principles that are embedded in equality, economic…