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That is exactly what we discussed during last week's meeting. We want to ensure that all traditions and types of music are represented. We want to ensure that, on that stage, we get an opportunity to showcase not just Belfast but Northern Ireland and our rich cultural and musical heritage.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026
I thank the Minister for the answer; it is very encouraging. Having spoken to local Comhaltas branches, I know that there is a desire to reach out to all aspects of traditional music in Northern Ireland. What can the Minister and his Department do to further encourage the sharing of musical traditions at such events…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026
I met representatives from Belfast City Council and Comhaltas last week. The delivery of that large-scale event requires commitment from many partnership organisations. I am pleased that the Arts Council — an arm's-length body of my Department — is available and more than willing to assist with advice and input as the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann 2026
The Member will be aware that the Executive brought in welfare mitigations that helped to deal with some of the most egregious of those welfare reforms and the impact that they had on people in Northern Ireland. Mitigations were brought in for the bedroom tax, for example, because we simply did not have the capacity…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Welfare Reform: Implications Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Welfare Reform: Implications
I thank the Minister for his answer. In 2015, the Minister's party — the DUP — along with Sinn Féin and the Alliance Party tripped through the Lobbies together to hand welfare powers over to London. To what extent has that vote impacted on our ability to help the most vulnerable people and mitigate the harshest of…
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A statutory report on the operation of welfare reform, as provided for in the Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015, was laid before the Assembly in December 2018. My Department also published an evaluation of welfare reforms, as detailed in the welfare reform composite evaluation framework.
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As I have outlined to the House, there is a mechanism in place that may have been able to help in the case mentioned by Mr Durkan. That may not have been well known in that instance — I do not know whether they went down that route — but there are a number of options available. Sometimes, those are on a discretionary…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Tenancy Agreements: Support Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Tenancy Agreements: Support
Will the Minister confirm what action he can take to ensure that people with limited capacity, and their carers, are informed about securing the lasting power of attorney, enduring power of attorney, deputyship or a Court of Protection order?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Tenancy Agreements: Support Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Tenancy Agreements: Support
Generally, tenancy agreements cannot be signed by an individual who is deemed to lack capacity. However, there is potential for consideration to be given, through the Office of Care and Protection, to someone being authorised to sign a tenancy agreement on behalf of the individual who lacks capacity. That needs to be…
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I thank the Minister for his answer. Minister, a young lady with autism and a severe learning disability in my constituency is in temporary housing courtesy of the Housing Executive. She was recently offered a bungalow, which came as a great joy to her, only to have that taken away when it was determined that her…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Tenancy Agreements: Support Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Tenancy Agreements: Support
Tenancy agreements are legal contracts. Supported housing is provided for people with housing support needs who cannot live independently. That may include people whose support needs are such that they do not have the capacity to enter into a legal contract.
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Unfortunately, we do not know the costs. That is another of the problems that we have with the way in which the Government have announced the changes. When they were originally announced, we were told that they would save £5 billion across the UK, which, on a pro rata basis, would have been over £150 million for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
I thank the Minister for his answers. Can the Minister indicate how much the changes are likely to cost Northern Ireland?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
Yes. I made my views on this known to the Secretary of State and to UK Government Ministers on a UK-wide call. The call was not specifically about this issue, but I used the opportunity to get my view across. I also feel that this will have increased anxiety, and, perhaps, in many cases, unnecessary anxiety, because…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. Minister, do you accept that there are many people, particularly those whose mental health frailties make them vulnerable, for whom this announcement has exacerbated their anxieties? You mentioned, Minister, that you made your views known to the UK Government. Can you specifically…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
I understand that such concerns have been expressed. We are still trying to figure out all of the outworkings of what that will mean, but I hope that we will be able to provide all the support that we can to people in Northern Ireland who may find themselves affected. What we can do, we certainly will do on that.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
I thank the Minister for his answer. Minister, given the proposed abolition of the work capability assessment, what assurance can you offer people with conditions not captured by PIP, such as those receiving ongoing cancer treatment? Will they still be able to access universal credit support?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
Those are certainly points that I have raised with the UK Government. In addition, I have made clear the need for us to continue the work on the disability strategy and the disability-in-work plan. Many disabled people want to be in work, and that is what I mean when I say that we should break down barriers. It is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
I thank the Minister for his answer. Since the announcement by the Labour Government, the community that has been the most disproportionately affected, maligned and attacked is the disabled community, which will, potentially, be most affected by the changes. Systemic difficulties are faced by many disabled people in…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
As an Executive, we have certainly have made our views clear to the UK Government. I have met the Secretary of State on the issue, and we will continue to make our views known, because there is a better way to reduce the welfare bill: by helping people rather than hurting them by taking money off them in the way that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an fhreagra sin. Does the Minister agree that those cuts are an attack on our most vulnerable and that, as an Assembly and an Executive, we should oppose them?
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As I have said before, our research indicates that a rent cap would actually make things worse for people in Northern Ireland. I am not willing to place that burden on them.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
Minister, hundreds of thousands of people will expect you not to do Labour's bidding by implementing the cuts. I hope that you will say today that you will not. Given the fact that there are no rent caps in the private rented sector, hundreds of millions of pounds from the welfare budget is going on private rented…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
Almost anything is better than the steps that the Government have outlined. I believe that there is a way for us to reduce the welfare bill. We should all want to see that and try to, where possible, help people to get back into work. There are ways in which we can do that. Look at the impact of some of the successful…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Benefit System Changes
Does the Minister feel that there is a better way in which to reform the welfare state? If so, what steps is he going to take to do that?
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