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When does the deputy First Minister expect all those processes to be completed, and will there be an opportunity for her Department to bring that information to the Executive Office Committee?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022
I thank the Member for his question. He will be aware that these are new appointment processes and that there are a number of posts: not just the two commissioners but the staff in the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression, which will go out to public appointment. Departmental officials have therefore carried out…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht a freagra. Will the Minister outline specifically what the Executive Office has been doing to progress the establishment of the bodies and the appointment of the commissioners, and within what time frame?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022
The appointments of the language commissioners and the director and members of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression are essential to the implementation of the provisions of the Identity and Language Act, for which TEO is responsible. We are committed to establishing the three bodies, and preparations are now…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022
I thank the Member for her question. We are all aware that the way in which we communicate has changed. It is no longer through just radio, TV programmes and news channels; a huge number of people now get their information from social media. People choose more and more to get their news and information from those…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication
How important does the deputy First Minister think that the role of social media was in recent communications about storm Éowyn?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication
I thank the Member for her question. The Member is aware that the Department is under the equality duty set out in section 75, as all Departments and public bodies are. We take that duty seriously. It is important to us that we are able to communicate our strategies and other information, including on the things that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication
Will the deputy First Minister further detail how the Executive Office ensures equality of opportunity for all?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication
Indeed. That is why the Department has led the way in doing that and has done so for a considerable time. We try to focus on the accessibility aspect of all our social media posts. As I indicated, that includes that, where we use videos, we try to subtitle them. We also make things as clear as possible and use the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication
I thank the deputy First Minister for that answer. Does the deputy First Minister agree that it is important to make social media content accessible to people with visual impairments and that functions such as alt text image descriptions aid understanding and make social media more inclusive?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication
The Executive Office is committed to ensuring that the information and services that it provides are fully accessible to all parts of the community. That includes its communication on social media. The Executive information service (EIS) has provided accessibility training for its communications staff to enable them…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Social Media: TEO Communication
I am sure that, as Chair of the Finance Committee and leader of the Opposition, the Member is aware that the Executive cannot set a multi-year Budget in the absence of a multi-year spending review by Westminster.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I have 10 minutes, although I may not use them all. Thank you for taking my point of order on the anomaly that relates to my two roles. It is important that it be resolved. Today and tomorrow, we will have a significant opportunity to debate the Budget process in the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25
Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. As you have set out, the debate covers the three Supply resolutions for the spring Supplementary Estimates (SSEs) 2024-25, which cover the current financial year, the Vote on Account for 2025-26 and a Statement of Excesses for 2023-24, all of which are associated…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25
I beg to move
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25
On a point of order. I appreciate your granting me the opportunity to raise a point of order, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I ask the Speaker's Office again to look at the anomaly of the situation that the Opposition and I are in for timed debates in particular, but which will also arise tomorrow. I, as Chair of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Supply Resolution for the Northern Ireland Spring Supplementary Estimates 2024-25
No.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Standing Orders 10(2) to 10(4): Suspension Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Standing Orders 10(2) to 10(4): Suspension
Has there been any discussion in the Commission about who should be on the board? Have any names been proposed or suggested?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage
Go raibh míle maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank all the Members who contributed to the debate. It is some nine years since the members of the IFRP left office. Since then, during a time when the Assembly has faced a range of significant challenges, the Assembly Commission has worked through the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage
Two weeks ago, I voted against a motion that noted a 2020 resolution about an independent body for MLA pay. At the time, I said that that was the first step towards establishing an independent remuneration board. I also said that it was laying the groundwork for a potential £20,000 pay increase for MLAs. I was told by…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage
Legislatively, this Bill is long overdue. It has been the settled will of the Assembly since 2020 that salaries and pensions should be determined independently — a word that I will return to shortly — and free from political interference. That the Assembly Commission has delayed its progression, first due to the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage
I begin by commenting on how the Bill got to this stage. It is right and necessary to do so, because the process that it went through before appearing in the Order Paper was most irregular. Executive Office guidance on consultation is clear. It sets the standard for consultation at 12 weeks. Paragraphs 8 to 10 of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage
I support the Bill. It is effectively an amending Bill that ties in with two motions passed by the Assembly: one in June 2024 and the other two weeks ago. As Trevor Clarke has outlined, those motions made a technical addition to the Assembly Commission's functions in line with decisions previously agreed by the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Assembly Members (Remuneration Board) Bill: Second Stage
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