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We are going through the consultation responses at the moment. Those will, in turn, be put into the draft legislation. There will be an opportunity for the Assembly to process, debate and amend the legislation and to put it through the Committee Stage. We will ensure that we continue to hear from those who wish to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Employment Rights Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Employment Rights
Go raibh maith agat, a Aire. Minister, recent research by the Respect at Work campaign and Queen's University suggests that union busting is rampant across the island of Ireland, with 69% of workers surveyed reporting consistent anti-union behaviour from employers. Are you confident that the "good jobs" employment…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Employment Rights Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Employment Rights
One of the four themes of the consultation is "Voice and representation". That is to ensure that people have the rights to organise and to be represented by trade unions and that those rights become enshrined. The British Government have retreated from those rights in many ways over the past 14 years. Thankfully, some…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Employment Rights Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Employment Rights
I agree that we should be given more powers, and if the Member wishes to take more powers from the British Government, I am happy to have his support; that has been an ambition of ours for some time. In this instance, Intertrade UK is not within my responsibilities. My responsibility involves InterTradeIreland and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK
Minister, you previously told me that the budget for InterTradeIreland had ballooned by more than £1·8 million since the introduction of the protocol and that it had taken on three additional staff. Based on your previous response, when will you become a Minister who is in charge of his whole Department, rather than…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK
My understanding is that Intertrade UK will be based in Whitehall. It is a creation of the British Government, and they will have responsibility for it. No responsibility for its creation, its personnel or its staffing costs lies on this side of the Irish Sea. It is entirely a creation of the British Government and it…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Intertrade UK
It does not include a commitment to move investment outside Belfast. It includes a commitment to grow more and at a higher level outside Belfast. It is not about moving anything anywhere but about growing and encouraging more growth. There have been many headlines about foreign direct investment and jobs that have…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Job Creation: Ards and North Down Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Job Creation: Ards and North Down
I thank the Minister for his answer. Figures acquired from his Department show that no new jobs have been created from foreign direct investment in the Ards and North Down Council area since 2020. Does the Minister think that that is acceptable, and will he explain to my constituents why his Department's new…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Job Creation: Ards and North Down Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Job Creation: Ards and North Down
We are content, as I said, to work: we have set targets for outside the greater Belfast area, but we continue to want to see growth inside that area, and we will continue to support economic development there. If he wishes to discuss with Invest, or, indeed, the Department our approach to specific aspects of his…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Job Creation: Ards and North Down Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Job Creation: Ards and North Down
Yes. Some colleges are struggling for people with the teaching capacity for those skills, but we are continuing to work at that and to provide more flexibility for the colleges in how they recruit people in order to try to ensure that we have sufficient trainers for young people. There are huge opportunities for young…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Trade Careers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Trade Careers
I thank the Minister for his response. Does the Minister agree that there is a scarcity of trades personnel and, therefore, a need for young tradespeople to come into the system?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Trade Careers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Trade Careers
We are working on careers advice to make sure that young people have all the advice on the trades that they seek. Careers advice has not been consistent or coherent across the entire school network. We want to ensure that that is the case and that we have more apprenticeship opportunities for young people. However,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Trade Careers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Trade Careers
If we find that the definition of a carer is not being fully understood, yes, I am very happy to ensure that it is revisited. I am sure that that will be reflected in the consultation responses, a significant number of which are being analysed over the autumn. We intend to move to drafting the legislation over the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Carers NI: Paid Carers' Leave Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Carers NI: Paid Carers' Leave
Thank you very much, Minister. I am glad to hear that consultation on the 'good jobs' employment rights Bill includes consideration for paid carers' leave. Will there be any guidance for employers about who a carer is?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Carers NI: Paid Carers' Leave Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Carers NI: Paid Carers' Leave
I am aware that carers continue to press for that right. I have said that quite a lot of our 'good jobs' employment rights Bill, which we are consulting on, relates to carers and their rights. I would like to see a situation where people are entitled to paid carers' leave. That will be a matter for the Executive; it…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Carers NI: Paid Carers' Leave Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Carers NI: Paid Carers' Leave
We have been quite relaxed about how councils and local partners come together for this work. The only thing that we have specified is that there has to be a genuine partnership. You are right that the LMPs have very similar functions to LEPs. If councils wish to have some kind of arrangement between those bodies, to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Local Economic Partnerships Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Local Economic Partnerships
Thank you, Minister. Given the fact that the departmental guidance on memberships of LEPs appears to mirror current labour market partnerships (LMP), does the Minister envisage significant duplication, and will he encourage LMPs to realign their function in order to avoid that?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Local Economic Partnerships Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Local Economic Partnerships
We are in dialogue with councils to ensure that those plans are worked through and understood clearly by everybody, that whatever measures are needed to make sure that they can function are there and that we do so at pace, because we want to see the local economic partnerships up and running by the new financial year.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Local Economic Partnerships Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Local Economic Partnerships
From the challenges that we have in making sure that projects get moving, the impact of 10 or 12 years of austerity Budgets is very clear, particularly the impact on Northern Ireland Water and the work that it needs to do to ensure that land is fit for development. Of course, the Minister for Infrastructure will…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Electricity Connection: New Builds Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Electricity Connection: New Builds
The head of the Construction Employers Federation and the head of the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations have said consistently that we are, unquestionably, in a housing crisis. If that rise is not addressed, we will be putting a handbrake on the building sector, which we so desperately need for our…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Electricity Connection: New Builds Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Electricity Connection: New Builds
The Utility Regulator and anyone else has to make sure that, whatever position they take on costs, it is done in a way that is sustainable and has an evidence base to support it. I look forward to engaging with the Utility Regulator on a range of those matters. As I said, we want to improve connectivity and the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Electricity Connection: New Builds Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Electricity Connection: New Builds
As I said, the full impact will take time to become clear. I have acknowledged the benefits to workers from increases in the national minimum wage and the national living wage, but there are challenges, particularly with the cost of energy. I am aware of particular concerns raised by the hospitality sector about the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Autumn Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Autumn Budget
As the Minister will know, I come from a constituency that relies heavily on the hospitality sector. Can he outline the impact of the British Government's Budget on the hospitality sector?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Autumn Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Autumn Budget
I do not have that information to hand, but I am very happy to correspond with the Member to provide it, if there is up-to-date information and if that information attributes the causation of somebody's insolvency to how the Budget has left them. I support the idea of giving poorly paid workers more wages, but the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Autumn Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Autumn Budget
Labour's disastrous Budget had a severe impact not just on farmers but on business owners, and the increase in employer National Insurance contributions has left many of them feeling that they are being taxed to the point of death. Growth rates have slowed down as a result of the Budget, and there have been record…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Autumn Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Autumn Budget
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