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As the Member will be aware, it is up to the Arts Council to determine funding and everything around that on the basis of its policies. It has its equality and good relations policies, and it is only right that they be fully implemented. Where standards have fallen below what is expected, action should be taken. What…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
Minister, can you detail whether your Department has given funding through community arts funding to any organisation that has been publicly singing: "up to our necks in Fenian blood"?
Decided on a second assessment. Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
The Member will be aware that the Arts Council is the primary body responsible for funding the arts in Northern Ireland. It has policies that help it work out where those boundaries and barriers are. For example, it has a good relations policy and an equality policy. As Minister for the arts, I want to make sure that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
Will the Minister outline how funding decisions for cultural and artistic output balance freedom of expression with public accountability?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
I completely agree with the Member; in fact, it is not only right but our responsibility to call out such behaviour. There will always be things that people do in the arts sphere with which we disagree, but Kneecap's comments went far beyond anything that comes anywhere close to being artistic licence. It was the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
Does the Minister agree that the UK Government and the Irish Government need to distance themselves fully from the funding of state sponsorship of racism, antisemitism and sectarianism in view of Kneecap? Some Members in the House have suggested that it is mad to complain about such comments from Kneecap: does the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
The Member will be aware that, although I oversee local government legislation, it is up to individual councils to make such decisions. I hope, however, that councils will take into consideration the good relations issues that have been raised in light of some of the comments made not only by Kneecap but by all those…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
I welcome confirmation from the Minister that no money from his Department has been provided to Kneecap, and I trust that that will continue. As the Minister responsible for local government, what is he doing to stop that pro-IRA rap group from turning Belfast City Council-owned Boucher Road playing fields into its…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
Neither my Department nor any of its arm's-length bodies (ALBs) have provided any funding to Kneecap since 2017.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Kneecap: DFC Funding
I will wrap it up pretty quickly, if I can. I highlight the unprecedented pressures that face our agri-food and rural sectors. Whilst the wider Budget implications extend further than our Finance Department, there is no doubt that the most imminent crisis for the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2025-26
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I will be pursuing the point, particularly because others in the Chamber make great play of the importance of opposition in other Chambers on this island. I intend to do my job in opposition on this part of the island and to have it properly respected. Anyway, I will move on.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2025-26
I beg to move As you know, I am a man of few words. I do not intend to make a very long introductory statement but, if provoked, I am prepared to use my time at the end. I previously made a statement to the House on the Budget but I welcome the opportunity to debate it more fully with Members. The agreement of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget 2025-26
I beg to move
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Standing Orders 10(2) to 10(4): Suspension Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Standing Orders 10(2) to 10(4): Suspension
I thank the Minister for his statement and welcome the almost £10 million funding for primary care. Of course, if the Budget had allowed, the reality could have been quite different. Can the Minister give an assurance that rural constituencies, such as Fermanagh and South Tyrone, will benefit from this assurance for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
Minister, there has been a decades-long failure of your Department to workforce plan in primary care. Demand far outstrips supply, and GPs are under considerable pressures. It is not one or two GP surgeries; it is every surgery across Northern Ireland, which means that it is a systemic issue. How are you increasing…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
Despite your opening comments, Minister, not only have you picked a fight with the BMA but it seems as if you have brought your boxing gloves, head guard and the gumshield. The statement is laden with events and accusations that the BMA may challenge, but I will leave that up to it. You talk a lot about collaboration…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
Minister, numerous concerns have been raised with me regarding access to two surgeries that have been taken over in the past 12 months. What steps can you take to ensure that future contracts will have better patient access requirements built in from the get-go?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
Minister, I know that you are aware that there is huge concern amongst our public about access to GP services. In fact, the Public Accounts Committee is conducting an inquiry on the matter, and it is public knowledge that over 12,000 people who are concerned responded to that inquiry. Do you believe that your…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
Minister, two GP practices in south Armagh are being or are on the cusp of being managed by the trust. With the managing GP having stepped back from Maphoner surgery in Mullaghbawn, locums and the trust are managing that practice. In Rathkeeland House surgery, in Crossmaglen, the managing GPs are scheduled to step…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
How does what you have said many times in the Chamber about the Department of Health's budget equate to your lack of sympathy for the GPs who are trying to run a service?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
Thank you, Minister, for your statement. Minister, I concur with other Members who have spoken about the tone in which you have delivered the statement, and I certainly concur with them about the content of your statement. You have come to the Chamber many times and said that the Department of Health needs more money…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
I thank the Member for her question. Of course, if you want to make becoming a GP attractive, you will put more into GP practices, but the money does not exist. There is a shortfall of half a billion pounds in the current Health and Social Care budget. We are investing, and we are investing in the GP workforce. I say…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
Minister, will the GP contract investment attract more GPs in order to stabilise the service? Our constituents want more access to GPs, and we need you to stabilise it. What are you going to do, if we see more GP hand-backs?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
The Member needs to realise that there is not a limitless pot of money. One million pounds is not fantastic — I accept that — but no money is worse. We have done what we can, avoiding catastrophic cuts elsewhere in health and social care delivery.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
Last year, there were 312 active GP practices. Giving £1 million of new money in funding for all of those practices represents £1,600 each for six months or £3,200 for 12 months. Can the Minister explain exactly what a practice could do with that type of money?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26
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