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  1. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    You are not going to speak to the amendments because you are not going to divide on them, but you do not support the Bill in principle, is that right?

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  3. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    Our position on the Bill is as it was previously. I spoke to the Chair about this earlier, and I can tell the House that we do not intend to divide on the amendments, but I will give voice to our concerns about the Bill in general. As I said earlier, nobody stands for office to see anyone, much less children, go…

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  4. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    I want to take the opportunity to say that I will work with you and the Committee to tidy that up at Further Consideration Stage, if needs be. That is not an issue. That goes for anything that comes out of this stage. Thank you.

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  6. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    I confirm that the Chair is correct, and I thank him for articulating the point for us. I will come to it when I speak later, but we all agree that nobody wants any child to go hungry. It would be silly to try to make out that that was the position of any party or Member in the Chamber. It is, however, proper and…

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  7. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    It is just to have a point of clarity, if you do not mind, because it is a wee bit hard to hear. Will the Member clarify whether he said that Jon Burrows and the DUP members of the Education Committee disagreed with the underlying principles of the Bill but did not vote against it? The underlying principles of the…

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  9. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    Before the Member addresses the amendments, I note that there was a bit of an exchange about affordability. Of course, that is important, because we need to provide certainty to those who may receive the payments if the Bill becomes law, but does the Committee Chair also recognise the cost to this place and the impact…

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  11. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    I thank the Bill sponsor for that intervention. I put on record my thanks to Jonathan Redpath and the rest of the team in the Bill Office for their assistance and support in developing the amendments and throughout the process. It is important to note that not all Committee members supported the Bill in principle. In…

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  12. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    You could ask that question about TransformEd, mobile phone pouches or football pitches. To compare this legislation to parking a car is wrong; they are completely different. We are talking about feeding children, not being facetious and trying to put a political point-score on it. Your party's Committee member never…

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  13. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    The Education Minister is not here. He has not been supportive from the get-go. I say this to Members, however: every Minister has a budget, but you do not sit here and ask that question when it comes to —.

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  14. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    I will give way to the Bill sponsor in one moment. As we progress through the process and the further stages, it will be important to get clarity on how the financial cost will be borne. I will give way to the Bill sponsor.

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  16. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    I thank the Member for his intervention. I will try to deal with both of those points together, as they are connected. I cannot recall the exact text of the response, but I have to say that there was not a very direct response to suggest that other Departments were queueing up to pick up the issue. It would have been…

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  17. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    If my recollection is correct, we wrote to the Executive Office, as I proposed, to ask whether the Executive were prepared to look at the issue in a cross-departmental way. The response was, essentially, that they were not.

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  20. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    I thank the Member for his intervention. No, we have not. Notably, the Minister is not in the Chamber, which is unusual, and I am not sure of the reasons for that.

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  21. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    I appreciate the Chair's giving way. He mentioned some of the implementation difficulties, so I wanted to ask something at this stage. I chair the Finance Committee. That Committee has established that the Bill will cost about £20 million to £25 million per year. My party strongly supports the principles of the Bill,…

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  22. Debate contribution: Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill: Consideration Stage

    Deputy Speaker, on behalf of the Committee for Education, I welcome the opportunity to speak at Consideration Stage of the Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill, which was introduced on 3 March. Before I address the Committee's findings from Committee Stage and move to look at the amendments, I thank the Bill…

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  24. Debate contribution: Tree Protection Bill: Second Stage

    Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I begin by thanking Members for their contributions today. It is fair to say that things have been pretty dicey for a number of Members' Bills at Second Stage, but I genuinely appreciate the tone that has been taken and the constructive feedback that I have received. That is…

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  25. Debate contribution: Tree Protection Bill: Second Stage

    • Ms Liz Kimmins SF
    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    I welcome the opportunity to speak to today's debate. I apologise for not being here at the start. I thank my colleague Aisling Reilly for covering when I was not here. I thank Peter McReynolds for bringing the Bill forward and acknowledge the work that has gone into the proposals. He mentioned his consultation, which…

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