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I thank Gerry Carroll for tabling the motion, which is really important and offers tangible solutions to the challenges faced by so many unpaid carers. It does not address all the challenges by any stretch, but it is a crucial starting point and highlights an issue of paramount importance. Like Gerry, I will focus…
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I beg to move the following amendment:
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I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I want to make it clear that the motion's call for a carer's allowance supplement scheme or carer's recognition payment is simply a token of society's appreciation of the work that carers do every day. In addition to a carer's recognition payment, what is…
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I declare an interest, because I was talking to Lord Murphy less than two weeks ago in the House of Lords, and that was one of the issues that I raised, so thank you. Lady Ritchie was probably listening in in the background and then decided to push on with that idea as well. It is significant, because it is an area…
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Thank you, Dr Aiken, for giving way. I appreciate it. I am delighted that the Member mentioned article 11 of the protocol. He has obviously been reading the SDLP's policy paper 'Our European Future'. It sounds as though he was agreeing with our suggestion that the Executive and Ministers here should follow up on that.…
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Will the Member give way?
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Thank you very much indeed, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank every Member for the debate and for its tone, which was very productive. It was important, because we recognised the central importance of the hospitality industry in Northern Ireland and the fact that it has the potential to grow considerably and…
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I thank the Minister for giving way. I will make a suggestion. She mentioned one of my favourite subjects: APD. Given that we spend two million or three million quid a year on subsidising non-existent long-haul flights and that the ETA is being forced on the region — we all agree, I think, that the ETA should not…
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Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank the Members who tabled the motion, and I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this important issue. I agree with Mr Brett about the importance of hospitality and tourism to our local economy. The figures have been quoted already this evening.…
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I did some research ahead of the debate and discovered that there is no example of VAT being varied in such a fashion anywhere else in the United Kingdom. Why would a unionist party seek to change that and give us a situation in which, when it comes to hospitality, our VAT rate is no longer decided by anyone in the UK…
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Let us do our job and stop passing motions without doing anything about it.
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I probably speak in too many debates in the Chamber. I am sure that some of my colleagues will agree. I am sure that, privately, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker, you will agree that I open my mouth too often in the Chamber. I was not planning to speak in this debate, but I will do so because, first of all, it is an…
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I thank the Member for giving way. He relates a very important point. Does he agree that this is testimony to the fact that Labour's policy of higher taxation will not deliver growth to the UK economy or for our local businesses? I am sure that the Member understands, as many of our small businesses do, that continued…
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I thank the Members who tabled the motion, because, at least, we are talking about something that is critical. There might be frustration in the Chamber as to what we can do about it. It may well be simply because we are a devolved Assembly and so there will be frustrations. We need the Labour Government to…
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I have spoken on this issue before, and I have raised it a couple of times. The motion lays out the importance of hospitality and the stats on it, so I will not repeat them. As the economy spokesperson for Alliance, I regularly meet the industry. Only a matter of weeks ago, Colin Neill of Hospitality Ulster and I…
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I thank the Members who tabled the motion for giving us the opportunity to discuss what is a really important issue. Representing South Down, a border constituency, I encounter it week in and week out, with a number of businesses coming to me to say that they are seeing the very real effect of customers voting with…
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I thank my constituency colleague for proposing the motion. We are both MLAs for a border constituency, and we know that the tourism and hospitality sector plays a significant role in our local economy. I am therefore acutely aware of the detrimental impact that different VAT rates can have on businesses. Every year,…
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I thank the Member for giving way. The Member makes an important point, because, post lockdown, we have seen a tendency for a lot of our civil servants who work in Belfast city centre to work from home, and, therefore, many such businesses feel that it is unviable for them to open on many days during the week. Does…
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I thank the Member from Fermanagh and South Tyrone for proposing the motion. The reality is that our hospitality sector is the cornerstone of our local economy, accounting for four out of five tourism-related jobs. As a representative from the Foyle constituency, I know at first-hand how essential a strong hospitality…
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Like other Members, I welcome the opportunity to return to this important issue following the debate on 13 May last year. As the motion sets out, hospitality plays a key role in the success of Northern Ireland's tourism industry, with food and drink accounting for a significant portion of visitor spend. With 70% of…
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I thank the Member for giving way. He raises an interesting point. The VAT rate is not the only thing that Northern Ireland businesses face that is uncompetitive; it is also the case with corporation tax. Many hoteliers and businesses pay through the roof in corporation tax compared with their counterparts in the…
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I thank the Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone for proposing the motion. Since the Minister for the Economy took office, less than a week ago, she has responded to two debates on hospitality and tourism. That is because Members from all sides of the House recognise the importance of our tourism sector and of the…
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I welcome the opportunity to speak on this sensible motion, and I thank the Member who proposed it for outlining its rationale. During the COVID pandemic, we heard the phrase that "Ireland is one epidemiological unit" an awful lot. In my mind, Ireland is one unit in every sense, but it is clear that international…
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I beg to move I rise today not just to pay tribute to one of Northern Ireland's best business sectors but to make the case for a fairer playing field for all those men and women who pull the pints, serve our world-class food and make this place the most welcoming in the world. The hospitality and tourism sector is a…
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Thank you for giving way, Minister, and for providing that clarity. Will the test purchasing by councils, which your Department funds, continue beyond the 2009 age group to ensure that people are stopped from buying tobacco?
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