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  2. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    Going by the debate so far, I have no doubt that the regulations that are before the House will be approved, but I welcome the fact that, after I raised questions on 19 March, DUP colleagues joined me in making similar points the following week in Committee. Regardless of the motive, there are good reasons for…

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  3. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I thank the Member for his input. Fiscal appropriation should be the concern of all the Ministries, Departments and Members here. I have no issue with that. In reality, what we have faced over the past couple of weeks — we have all spoken about it and made comment on it — is avoidable. Some Members have said that the…

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  4. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    • Mr John Blair Alliance
    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member, who has been incredibly patient. I want to ask him two things. First — I hope that he does not mind me asking — does he feel that some of what we are hearing today from the DUP is a bit rich, considering that that party thought that it was OK to spend around or over a quarter of a million pounds on…

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  5. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I appreciate that the Member has been generous with his time. Mr Kingston posed the question: who will pay the price? Does the Member agree that communities in the Mournes have had to deal with not only this wildfire but previous incidents in 2004, 2011 and 2021? People are still dealing with the impact of the floods.…

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  6. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I thank the Member for giving way. Is the Member concerned that gorse fires are happening generally but also, seemingly, there is no record kept of how many occur? Leaving aside whether it should happen at all, there is a requirement for farmers to notify the Department before a gorse fire. Beyond two applications for…

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  8. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The Member has put his point on the record. Equally, I have set out why it would be penny wise and pound foolish to suggest such a thing. The Member will understand that that £1 million is set aside for this purpose. It is not something that a Minister can bid for and then allow to be…

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  10. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I thank the Member for giving way. Given the number of interventions, he is certainly very popular, and I appreciate this opportunity to make a couple of points. We have talked about wildfires, but as far as I understand it, those were set deliberately, and there is an investigation into that. On the wider point,…

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  14. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    Will the Member add to that the growing cost of the recent storms and floods and the costs associated with the rising temperatures, which have contributed to the algal bloom in Lough Neagh?

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  16. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I thank the Member for her intervention. The Member did not engage with my point. I talked about using the word "unionist". I suggest that someone looks through Hansard and Twitter to see how many times the word "nationalist" is used to describe either Sinn Féin or the SDLP. It is probably zero. However, she has no…

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  17. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    The problem, when we sit on these Benches and look across, is that there are very few issues on which you vote in a different Lobby from other unionist parties. It is very easy for us to see that you, in many ways, are a block.

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  20. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    That is the honest truth. I am going to speak the truth, and I am going to speak for a unionism that is not in denial. It is a unionism that speaks to reality head-on. I am disappointed with the Chair of the Executive Office Committee for othering unionism. I will put that in context. I asked the Chair to clarify her…

    Uncertain: close call Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty Criteria met: Identity framing, Controversy escalation.

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  21. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I am often asked why I joined the Ulster Unionist Party and not the DUP, particularly when I am interviewed by young people. It is because of moments such as this, and that is the honest truth.

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  23. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    No one in the Assembly doubts the need for us to be good guardians of our natural environment and to recognise where human activity is causing damage to our environment and our planet. At every level of society, we need to play our part in reducing harmful emissions and unnecessary waste and in increasing recycling.…

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  24. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I thank the Member for giving way. He highlighted the fact that others have raised the issue of costs. He rightly points out the global damage to the environment, but, if we look much closer to home, 30 miles down the road, at the gorse fires in County Down and, indeed, in County Antrim, we will see that the cost of…

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  25. Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Climate Commissioner Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

    • Mr John Blair Alliance
    • Executive Committee Business

    Like my Alliance colleague who spoke previously, I am pleased to support these long-awaited regulations, which will represent, if passed, a significant step forward in our ongoing journey to a more environmentally sustainable future for Northern Ireland. The appointment is not merely a legal requirement. The proposed…

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