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  1. Debate contribution: Lough Neagh: Algae

    As all Members will be aware, Treasury removed the ring fence around our agri-food and farming funding in 2025-26 as part of the spending review. I was keen to see appropriate funding be provided to farming communities. I therefore recommended that an earmarked allocation of £332·5 million be provided to DAERA for…

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  3. Debate contribution: Lough Neagh: Algae

    I assure the Member that the Executive are alive to the need to balance the interests and to recognise the importance of the faming and agriculture community in dealing with some of the challenges, as well as the really important role that that community plays in supporting action to protect our environment. Farming…

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  4. Debate contribution: Lough Neagh: Algae

    When we talk about Lough Neagh in this place, it is often through an environmental lens. Although that is important, it is often used as a stick with which to beat the rural, farming community. For many years, many farmers in my constituency of Upper Bann have had their land destroyed by flooding that is associated…

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  5. Debate contribution: Lough Neagh: Algae

    I can assure the Member that those engagements are ongoing between individual Ministers and in the Executive as a whole. As for supporting the actions that relate to, for example, NI Water, additional funding has been made available to the Department for Infrastructure. From the perspective of investing in waste water…

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  6. Debate contribution: Lough Neagh: Algae

    Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as a freagra. What collaboration or coordination is going on between the Departments and, indeed, the Executive to help to rectify issues emanating from Department for Infrastructure sewage disposal works? What support has been given to that Department to attempt to address those major…

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  7. Debate contribution: Lough Neagh: Algae

    I have met the AERA Minister on several occasions since becoming Finance Minister to discuss funding for his Department, including in respect of the issues at Lough Neagh. In addition, the Executive have met collectively to discuss Budget challenges, including in November 2024, prior to agreeing the draft 2025-26…

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  8. Debate contribution: Waiting Times/Care Packages: Budget 2025-26 Allocation

    There is no doubt that our health service is under immense pressure. Every single one of us will be aware of the implications of that through our constituency offices. It is important that we all recognise the incredible job that our health workers are doing in the most challenging circumstances. I agree with the…

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  9. Debate contribution: Waiting Times/Care Packages: Budget 2025-26 Allocation

    Despite what others may say, it is very clear that Health has been prioritised at every opportunity. Can the Minister describe how it will be prioritised in this draft Budget, particularly given that that will lead to other Departments not getting what they want?

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  10. Debate contribution: Waiting Times/Care Packages: Budget 2025-26 Allocation

    As an Executive collectively, we have set priorities and objectives, but individual Ministers have responsibilities for delivering on those as well. I am quite sure that every Minister in the Executive, if they were talking about their budget, would say that they are not in a position to deliver everything that they…

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  11. Debate contribution: Waiting Times/Care Packages: Budget 2025-26 Allocation

    This is becoming ridiculous. We are told that to save our health service we have to transform, yet we have a Health Minister who says that he does not have enough money to do his day-to-day business never mind undertake transformation. You are the Finance Minister: what are you going to do about it? Are we going to…

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  12. Debate contribution: Waiting Times/Care Packages: Budget 2025-26 Allocation

    In the January monitoring round, the Department of Health made a bid of £1·5 million in relation to waiting lists. As the Member will very likely be aware, we only had £15 million resource DEL to allocate in the January monitoring round, and some of that had to go to pressures in other Departments. The allocation that…

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  13. Debate contribution: Waiting Times/Care Packages: Budget 2025-26 Allocation

    I thank the Minister for her response. She will be aware, however, that the most recent allocation of £7 million in January monitoring fell short even of the allocation needed to deliver pay parity for our health workers. Does the Minister accept that there is an inconsistency in the Executive's seemingly prioritising…

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  14. Debate contribution: Waiting Times/Care Packages: Budget 2025-26 Allocation

    With the Speaker's permission, I will answer questions 1 and 10 together. The Department of Health was provided with a resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL) budget of £7·7 billion in 2024-25. The Department received a further £479 million during in-year exercises. The 2025-26 draft Budget proposes a resource…

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  16. Debate contribution: The Gaming (Variation of Monetary Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Executive Committee Business
    • As a minister

    I thank all the Members who contributed to the debate for the points that they have raised, and I want to address those. First, it is important to put on record again the fact that this is an overall package of measures that the Assembly agreed in 2021 when the debates first took place. Considerable progress has been…

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  17. Debate contribution: The Gaming (Variation of Monetary Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I do not know whether this is a declaration of interest, but I occasionally engage in gambling responsibly. I also recognise that gambling is a pastime for people but that it has wrecked the lives of people in working-class communities, in particular, and of people in this Building who have spoken about it before. I…

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  18. Debate contribution: The Gaming (Variation of Monetary Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I am shocked that the regulations have been brought to the Assembly. I am equally shocked that the Executive agreed to sign off on them, regardless of when that happened. Since the return of Stormont, a growing number of intelligent voices have questioned whether we have the competence to govern. I am deeply concerned…

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  19. Debate contribution: The Gaming (Variation of Monetary Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I find it difficult to disagree with a lot of what Mr O'Toole said. He talked about people waking up during the night and gambling on their phone and about the protections in legislation that are needed to prevent them from doing so. Unfortunately, many studies have shown that, for many, gaming machines are the…

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  21. Debate contribution: The Gaming (Variation of Monetary Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Executive Committee Business
    • As a minister

    I want to challenge that, because action is being taken. Let us look at what is happening. The code of practice will be brought forward and will be in place shortly, and work is being done around the levy. I absolutely agree with the Member that there are very serious concerns around gambling. However, this…

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  22. Debate contribution: The Gaming (Variation of Monetary Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I am not seeking to attack the Minister on this. That is not what this is about for me. I know that we are the Opposition, but I believe that there is a disjoint in the Chamber. I have made this point consistently, and I made it yesterday when we were debating certain matters: the public want to know what we are doing…

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  23. Debate contribution: The Gaming (Variation of Monetary Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Executive Committee Business
    • As a minister

    I appreciate the Member giving way, and I agree with some of the points that he has made. Does he accept that this was part of a larger package of reforms back in 2021? As a result of that legislation, a code of practice applying to gaming machine operators will come in in a way that it has not before. It will be an…

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  25. Debate contribution: The Gaming (Variation of Monetary Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

    I rise to speak about what is a modest change to the law to increase stakes in bingo halls and other premises where gambling takes place. It is worth saying that I am not opposed to gambling and gaming. In fact, over the Christmas break, I won a few quid on the King George VI Chase, the big race that happens on Boxing…

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