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I thank the Minister for his answer. Will he outline how the Department is supporting childcare providers through rating?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Affordable Childcare Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Affordable Childcare
That is an area in which the Executive have made huge strides. In the 2024-25 Budget, from a standstill, we invested £25 million in early learning and childcare. The draft Budget that is out for consultation is looking to invest £50 million and add another £5 million as part of the June monitoring round. We have made…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Affordable Childcare Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Affordable Childcare
The "nonsense" that Mr Gaston talks about also refers to support for people with disabilities, deaf people and people with sight impairments. It is nonsense only if you do not agree with it. Is that what we are going to base it on? I am not going to base the equality work in my Department on whether I agree with it.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
More wastage is what the Minister orders. Some of that money was spent on membership fees for the discredited Stonewall's Allies programme, which is used to push gender ideology. Why is taxpayers' money being wasted on that nonsense, years after the Civil Service and even the BBC recognised the need to withdraw from…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
I think that that spend is over six years. I am proud that my Department is leading the way on equality and diversity. There should be more of it across society so that we learn to live with and respect one another. Our differences are many, and they cover many topics, but let us be different, and let us respect our…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
It is my understanding that the issues identified by the NI Audit Office through its disclaimer opinion are not about value-for-money propriety or how the Department manages its budget but relate to the complexity of the consolidation process. I will follow it up with my officials, but, at this time, I have no…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Department for the Economy: Annual Accounts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Department for the Economy: Annual Accounts
Will the Minister commit to the fact that his Department looked at the issue? This covered £1 billion of funding that was allocated by his Department to the Department for the Economy that could not be qualified by the Northern Ireland Audit Office. Given the importance of ensuring that public funding is used…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Department for the Economy: Annual Accounts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Department for the Economy: Annual Accounts
I do not have those details in front of me. I am aware of the media reports in that regard, but I have no further details in front of me.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Department for the Economy: Annual Accounts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Department for the Economy: Annual Accounts
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment
Are you specifically saying that NI Water will have the first call on capital investment going forward? That is the upshot of what you are saying when you say that we will continue to fund it in exactly the same way as we have done through monitoring rounds, dribs and drabs —.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment
Minister, people hearing you say that we will continue the way we have been doing for the last few years in relation to NI Water will be tearing their hair out. Lough Neagh is an open-air cesspool. Your constituency faces on to it. The previous Sinn Féin Communities Minister promised 100,000 homes in the next 15…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment
I cannot hop from being Finance Minister to Infrastructure Minister and go back and forth, but I am more than happy to answer your question as Finance Minister. We will continue to support NI Water in the way that we have been doing over the last number of years. This year, NI Water is receiving half a billion pounds'…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment
The law concerning shared property management is complex. While it is based on land law, it also potentially touches on or concerns areas of law that are the responsibility of other Departments, such as Communities, in respect of housing policy, and Economy, in respect of consumer protection and company law. That…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Property Management Companies: Regulation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Property Management Companies: Regulation
Supporting and working with our staff is vital. Ensuring that there is an environment in which they feel cherished and valued is also important. The Department works closely with the trade union side on how we can continue to broaden that support and offer it to our civil servants. Across society and some businesses…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty
Minister, the number of working days lost in the Civil Service due to sickness went up from 72,000 in July 2024 to 81,600 in December 2024, with an additional estimated cost of £1·8 million. According to the figures, stress, depression and anxiety accounted for the largest proportion of that at 41·5%. As the Minister…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty
Absence management processes in the Civil Service are designed to consider and take account of the specific circumstances of each individual case. As part of the absence management procedure, all stress-related absences, including PTSD, are immediately referred to welfare support services. Alongside that, stress…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty
Minister, how are absences such as PTSD and other psychological illnesses managed under the sickness absence policies and procedures?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty
The Civil Service handbook protects all civil servants, including prison officers. It is there to ensure that there is equity and fair play for all. Every policy can and will be reviewed through time and to learn lessons, but the Civil Service handbook is the best way to support our prison officers and the rest of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty
Minister, thank you for that detailed answer. To be honest with you, I knew most of that. Here is the point: 96 officers were assaulted, while we can count the rest of the assaults on one hand. Surely it makes sense for the Northern Ireland Civil Service handbook to treat the Prison Service as separate from the rest…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty
Assaults on those who are serving the public are an affront to us all. There is no place for violence in the workplace or anywhere in society. Where an assault results in sickness absence, the data that the Department of Finance holds for all civil servants does not always make explicit the cause of the absence. In…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: NICS Staff: Assaults on Duty
It is only right and proper that Departments continually review the cost of their doing business and that, where they provide services, they satisfy themselves that what they charge covers the cost of those services and does not further burden the public purse. That sometimes requires decisions to be made on canteens,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams
Minister, the Budget sustainability plan sets out revenue-generation plans, some of which involve no ministerial direction or decision, are tiny and, frankly, a bit surreal. They include things such as hospital canteen charges and Ordnance Survey map charges — hardly revolutionary stuff. Indeed, in response to a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams
Sustainable Budgets are not just about revenue raising; they are about doing things better, which means, of course, being as efficient as possible and ensuring that we are doing the right things by focusing on the desired outcomes. As part of the Budget sustainability plan forward work programme, my Department is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams
What does the Department of Finance view as the main factors in sustainable Budgets?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams
The Executive have an agreed position on NI Water, which is that it will remain a government-owned company and will be funded through the general grant, as it is now.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams
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