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  1. Debate contribution: Animals: EU Imports

    Go raibh míle maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Minister, I will pursue your theme, but, to preface this question, I do not expect you to have the full details today. Will you quantify the additional cost of Brexit to your Department and the wider economy associated with it?

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  2. Debate contribution: Animals: EU Imports

    • Mr Andrew Muir Alliance
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Thank you, Principal Deputy Speaker. It is a bit of a trend for Mr Buckley to shout down other people in the Chamber. I am seeking to answer questions on the issue. I look to build relationships with people whom you can trust, and, frankly, Mr Buckley's party has a history of building relationships with people whom…

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  3. Debate contribution: Animals: EU Imports

    • Mr Andrew Muir Alliance
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I believe in the full, faithful and timely implementation of the Windsor framework, because I believe in upholding our legal obligations. That is important, and it is part of the ministerial code. Let us be clear: Brexit, as has been proven by the Office for Budget Responsibility, has been a really bad idea for the UK…

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  4. Debate contribution: Animals: EU Imports

    Minister Muir has been a leading cheerleader for the Northern Ireland protocol, which binds Northern Ireland to the EU single market and customs area, so I suspect that he fully understands its consequences. When the Minister mentions the exclusion of Northern Ireland, does he know whether the protocol that he…

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  5. Debate contribution: Animals: EU Imports

    • Mr Andrew Muir Alliance
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Thank you, Eóin. That is an important issue. I have had significant engagement with the UK Government on the potential for an SPS veterinary agreement. That significant engagement has included speaking with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the DEFRA Secretary of State, DEFRA Ministers and Nick…

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  6. Debate contribution: Animals: EU Imports

    • Mr Andrew Muir Alliance
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I cannot be held responsible for what another Minister says in another place, but I can be held responsible for the actions that I am taking in Northern Ireland, namely engaging on this with the industry, with UK Ministers and with my counterparts in the South. Control zones have been established in Hungary and…

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  7. Debate contribution: Animals: EU Imports

    Why then, on 15 January, did the Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs tell the House of Commons: "In Northern Ireland, the controls will apply to meat and live animals moving from a 3 km protection zone and a 10 km surveillance zone surrounding the affected premises in Germany. Those products cannot be moved…

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  8. Debate contribution: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division

    I welcome the fact that the motion places a focus on the cost of sectarian division. It is, however, unfortunate that its scope has been defined in one-dimensional terms. We need to be honest. The reality is that sectarianism cannot be properly assessed without reference to the partition and division of the island and…

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  9. Debate contribution: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division

    I thank the Member for giving way. I do not disagree with him, but, when we talk about fiscal appropriation, it is really important to note that we have campaigned collectively to say that Northern Ireland has been funded under need. That has been pretty new terminology for most of us in the past three or four years;…

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  10. Debate contribution: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division

    The SDLP welcomes the opportunity to debate this important issue, and we commend the Alliance Party for bringing it to the House. It is timely, given the constraints on our public finances, that we look critically at the cost of division in our society and reflect on how, in 2025, the ambition to create a more shared…

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  11. Debate contribution: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division

    I thank the Member for giving way. There is a bit of duplicity in her positioning and in some of the things that she has said. First, she said that Alliance wants to have police intervention wherever there are paramilitary trappings in communities, for example, yet she has just said that families want to set…

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  12. Debate contribution: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division

    I thank the Member for giving way. She makes an important point about schools. In a briefing paper that I have seen, the controlled sector made the point that the 2016 report to which the Member who opened the debate referred addresses the cost of unoccupied places at schools but does not address the fact that schools…

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  13. Debate contribution: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division

    Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I welcome the opportunity, in advance of tomorrow's statement, to discuss the pressures on our finances in Northern Ireland. The DUP supports a shared future. We are committed to investing in and transforming our public services and ensuring that they are accessible by everyone in…

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  14. Debate contribution: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division

    I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Over the course of my lifetime, Northern Ireland has been on a journey towards becoming a more progressive, inclusive and united place. However, despite the enormous strides forward that we have taken together, young people today still grow up in a community where children…

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  15. Debate contribution: Hydrogen Innovation Strategy

    Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank all the Members who spoke for their contributions. The motion has produced a very positive debate, and I thank my colleague Mr Buckley for moving it. There were quite a number of common themes in each of the contributions. Many Members, including me, want to celebrate…

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  16. Debate contribution: Hydrogen Innovation Strategy

    Thank you for giving way. My point is about the strategy. The South has a manufacturing strategy. The four pillars that you mentioned, including regional balance and achieving net zero, all feed into that. When you look at the South's manufacturing strategy, 85% of the jobs that it generates are naturally located…

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  17. Debate contribution: Hydrogen Innovation Strategy

    I thank the Minister for giving way and, in particular, for talking about some of the local companies that are doing excellent work in the field. It is important, therefore, that we also look at some of the challenges that they have faced. I think particularly of the gas-blending example in Granville. Many businesses…

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  18. Debate contribution: Hydrogen Innovation Strategy

    Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I welcome the motion. I thank the signatories to it for tabling it and for the opportunity to discuss the development of green hydrogen. The North is well placed to be a leader in that space. We have world-class renewable energy resources, a strong and innovative…

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