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I thank the Minister for that information, which will be a comfort to many businesses in Downpatrick. Can she provide a further timeline for the actual implementation of flood mitigation measures for Downpatrick?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Flooding in Downpatrick: Mitigations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Flooding in Downpatrick: Mitigations
Following the flooding in 2023, my Department commissioned a consultant to undertake a feasibility study to determine whether there were viable options to alleviate the threat of flooding in Downpatrick. The study is using information not only from the 2023 flooding incident but from additional historical records. A…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Flooding in Downpatrick: Mitigations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Flooding in Downpatrick: Mitigations
Our rates bills go towards all our public services, which further strengthens my argument about why we should not impose further bills and costs on households and families at a time when the cost of everything else is going up. We have to improve what we have, but there are ways in which to do that within the remit…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
Minister, it is clear that the funding model simply is not working and that, as a result, Northern Ireland Water is currently not fit for purpose. Do you accept that people are paying for water through the rates process? To that end, would you support there being a line in the rates bill to highlight what is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
I have made it clear what I am doing. I have pointed out the three things that we are doing specifically, which are working with Executive colleagues, undertaking the developer contributions consultation, which is out at the minute, and introducing legislation. Those three things are very clear. I am, however, glad…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
Minister, I am afraid that you are pursuing a straw man argument. You have said that you do not want water charges rather than explain what you will do about water infrastructure in the North. I do not want water charges and nor does my party, but Lough Neagh is turning into an open-air cesspool, we cannot build…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
We have seen what mutualisation has done, and the Member alluded to what has happened in Wales. Mutualisation does not necessarily deliver the immediate benefits that others may have perceived that it would. We have seen that significant issues remain in the waste water system. Companies are burdened by excessive debt…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
Does the Minister agree that the experience of privatisation and mutualisation in England and Wales has been a disaster?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
Yes, the accountant is in place, and the work has commenced. As it stands, the work is running on time. I will consider the report when it comes back to me and will share it with the Committee and the Assembly in due course.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
Last month, the Minister announced that a forensic accountant would look at NI Water's finances for 2024-25. It was reported that it would take about six weeks for the forensic accountant to do that work. I note that the terms of reference state that there will be a: "Presentation to management: w/c 2 June 2025". Can…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
As I said, I am considering a review that officials have undertaken. We have done numerous reviews to date and looked at all options, but no one has brought forward an alternative that will not lead to water charges, which I am not prepared to implement. If others want to do so, they should make that clear. My point…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
I thank the Minister for her answer. The context is human waste on our roads and in Belfast lough, the Lough Neagh situation, the stalled living with water programme in Belfast and the calling in of forensic accountants, and, in managing our water, we are not in a good place. Does the Minister accept that a review…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
I have previously provided the Assembly with my position on the matter. My Department has already extensively reviewed NI Water's funding model and analysed the opportunities for NI Water in raising additional revenue, operating more efficiently and using financial transactions capital (FTC) and additional borrowing…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NI Water: Alternative Funding Arrangements
I welcome the fact that legacy was on the agenda of last week's meeting of the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (BIIC). It is very much for the two Governments to work together on that area. I welcome their joint commitment to establishing legacy institutions that are fully human-rights compliant and within…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sean Brown: Public Inquiry Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sean Brown: Public Inquiry
What is the First Minister's view on recent engagements between the Irish and British Governments on the issue of legacy?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sean Brown: Public Inquiry Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sean Brown: Public Inquiry
Thank you for that. I have been at Bridie's side and will continue to be at the family's side. Bridie Brown is such a strong woman and has held herself with grace, courage and dignity. She stood outside the court earlier this month and made a direct plea to the British Government not to have her travel to London. No…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sean Brown: Public Inquiry Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sean Brown: Public Inquiry
I want to see the legislation progressed as quickly as possible. As I said, I look forward to the debate in the Assembly, but it is a game-changing possibility. That is how I embrace it. The possibility that the proposals could begin to be rolled out is game-changing. I am sure that there will be differences of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
Thanks very much, Mr Speaker. Will the First Minister commit to working with all Ministers and with the Executive to try to progress that legislation as quickly as possible?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
The Minister will initiate lots of discussion in the Chamber over the next number of years, particularly in relation to her 'good jobs' employment rights Bill. I look forward to the debate on that Bill. There is no doubt that it is one of the most significant pieces of workers' rights legislation ever to be introduced…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: 'Good Jobs' Employment Rights Bill
Yes. My personal view is that it is time to prepare, plan, engage and have the conversations. It is work that clearly both Governments, as co-guarantors of the agreement, need to put their minds to. I would like to have a more formal process where we can all engage around what the potential is, and I believe that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Unity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Unity
Lena chois sin, a Chéad-Aire, I am very sensitive to the fact that there is a divergence in thinking within your office around issues on the constitutional future of the island. Nevertheless, do you agree that it is now time for the British Secretary of State to set definitive criteria for the calling of a unity…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Unity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Unity
In the vein of the conversation that we had earlier, there is no joint office opinion on the issue. I very much welcome his intervention, however; it is a very helpful intervention. I wish that more people had the maturity and ability to enter into the conversation and embrace it in a way where we could have one…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Irish Unity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Irish Unity
I concur with the Member in calling out those people who are responsible for intimidating communities and trying to claim space within communities by erecting flags, symbols and emblems. That is not acceptable. I am determined to build a better future for everybody, and that includes tackling some of those issues that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Promoting Good Relations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Promoting Good Relations
I thank the First Minister for her answer. We have seen a recent example in Lisburn, as well as examples in the past few years outside new housing developments in places as far afield as Antrim and Dungannon, of flags and symbols being intentionally used to intimidate local residents. What steps are being taken to end…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Promoting Good Relations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Promoting Good Relations
They are two elements of the same thing for sure, given the conversation that we have just had about how unacceptable it is that paramilitaries still exist. Everybody should use their elected office to call it out for what it is and tell them to desist. If we are going to build a more inclusive society, we have to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Promoting Good Relations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Promoting Good Relations
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