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As the Member will be aware, we recently published the subregional economic plan, which is our approach to promoting regional balance. Just yesterday, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council had the first meeting of its local economic partnership. That enables the local council, along with partners, to develop plans…
I thank the Minister for her response. What steps, Minister, is your Department, alongside Invest NI, taking to attract further new business and investment to Roe valley, particularly in high-value industries?
Tourism has a key role to play in contributing to my objectives of regional balance and decarbonisation. I welcome the recent news that Roe Valley Resort will benefit from substantial investment by its new owners, the Galgorm Collection. Both Tourism NI and Tourism Ireland promote all regions of the North through…
I appreciate the Member's giving way. He will be aware of the budgetary constraints that we are under and the decisions that need to be made. He made the point well that the Government can save money and help people at the same time by ensuring that there is investment. Investment in the job programmes that he…
I extend solidarity on behalf of Sinn Féin to all the people in our communities who live with disabilities. The public backlash to the cuts speaks for itself. There is huge fear and concern about what the cuts will mean for some of the most vulnerable in our society. There is also an element of shock for some people,…
Thank you for giving way. I appreciate your comments about welfare fraud. It is a serious issue and has to be tackled, but do you not agree that it pales into insignificance compared with the problem of tax dodging in the United Kingdom?
Do you not believe that a mitigating circumstance is, for example, the anti-poverty strategy that the Minister has delivered to the Executive? Do you not believe that its content will go part of the way to mitigating poverty and advocating for the poor?
The past two weeks have caused great anxiety for people who receive disability- and health-related benefits. The 'Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper', which was published on 18 March, reduced the number of people who will qualify for personal independence payments from…
I thank the Member for giving way. It would be wise of us to consider not only benefits such as PIP but the passported benefits that disabled people can get as a consequence of their eligibility for the likes of PIP and disability living allowance (DLA) that are under threat. I list in particular carer's allowance,…
Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Since this latest wave of cuts to disability support was announced a couple of weeks ago, I have been inundated daily on the street, in the supermarket and through late-night messages from anxious constituents, all terrified about what is coming next. I am sure that…
I beg to move It is a real honour to propose the motion. I begin the debate with a question that I have been battling with since the publication of the UK Government's Green Paper, 'Pathways to Work': what kind of society do we want to be? If we judge that by how we treat our most vulnerable or how we treat and…
While I understand the Minister's point about geography — I absolutely agree with you on that issue — we can see clearly, as identified in the reconfiguration, that Craigavon will be needed as an acute hospital. Does the Member agree that it is not about where it is but about the need for the hospital to service the…
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. When Members saw in the Order Paper that Alan Robinson, an East Londonderry MLA, was seconding a motion on Craigavon Area Hospital, they may have thought that, given that today is 1 April, it was an April Fool. It is not: I am very pleased to support my colleague from Upper Bann Diane…
Deputy Speaker, thank you very much, and I thank Mrs Dodds for proposing the motion. Buildings, of course, are important for healthcare delivery, but I gently suggest that the workforce is even more important, so I begin by putting on record my eternal admiration for and thanks to the workforce at Craigavon Area…
I speak as a proud parish-pump politician. My parents' generation was raised and survived on buckets of water drawn from the parish pump. The parish pump was at the heart of daily life for families and communities. The parish pump was a lifeline. Craigavon Area Hospital is a lifeline hospital. Daisy Hill Hospital is a…
I thank the Member for giving way. I know full well that, in my constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone, services have been reconfigured and some services have moved to Craigavon. The Member talked about need and the fact that people have to travel. However, people rightly question why services at the South West…
I am grateful to my colleagues for tabling this important motion. The DUP is clear that, when it comes to investing in our hospital network, no part of Northern Ireland should be left behind or disadvantaged. Regional balance is often mentioned in the Chamber, but it is important that that phrase is not just used in…
As everyone else has done, I thank the Members for tabling the motion. The timing of the debate is fortuitous, coming as it does a day after the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, which highlighted the fact that 16% of the imaging equipment used in patient scans in the North is out of date, thus impacting…