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  4. Debate contribution: Universal, Affordable Child-centred Childcare

    I thank the Members opposite for tabling this important motion. I do not doubt their sincerity in proposing it. Our amendment reflects the original motion but recognises the significant progress that has been made on the issue since the establishment of the Executive earlier this year. The implementation of the…

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  6. Debate contribution: Universal, Affordable Child-centred Childcare

    I appreciate the Member's giving way. On the childcare subsidy scheme, does the Member agree with me — a parent of a young child in childcare — that it is a positive step forward, as we have acknowledged to the Minister, but we need more than that? We need a comprehensive strategy that is a long-term solution, not…

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  8. Debate contribution: Universal, Affordable Child-centred Childcare

    I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Since the Assembly was restored, childcare has been a key focus of many contributions in the Chamber. When we debated the issue in February, there was cross-party agreement on the need for progress. Childcare now features in the Programme for Government as a stand-alone…

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  9. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    I thank the Member for giving way. The reason that I have to repeat all that is because so much of it has not been dealt with. Does the Member regret the fact that his party's motion on the relationship with the European Union fails even to mention the serious frictions that are faced by businesses that are involved…

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  10. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    Thank you very much, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Maybe I will pledge not to wind people up but to wind up the debate and see how we get on with that. It is great to hear so many people complaining about not having enough time to participate in the debate. Maybe, if we go back to a having a smaller number of…

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  12. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    Does the Member agree that the Alliance Party has implemented fully and faithfully the terms of reference for the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee? If Mr Aiken had bothered to take even a cursory glance at those terms of reference, he would know that but his lack of attention to detail is not…

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  15. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    I will need more than three minutes. I will start by responding to that intervention. Yesterday was my son's fifth birthday. When he opened up his pirate ship, his eyes lit up in much the same way as Jonathan Buckley's eyes lit up when the man from Invest NI talked about dual market access. I keep thinking that the…

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  18. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    I thank the Member for giving way. Does he agree that one of the major issues is the approach taken by many political parties in the Chamber of continually burying their heads in the sand about the total and absolute carnage that continued trade borders between Great Britain and Northern Ireland creates for Northern…

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  19. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    In 1998, the people of Northern Ireland were promised that there would be no change to the constitutional status of Northern Ireland without their consent. Implicit in that was an acknowledgement that we, as citizens of the United Kingdom, had the right to take part in national referendums and that the decisions in…

    Flagged Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty Criteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging.

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  20. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    I thank the Member for giving way. He has always been a strong advocate of local, strong representation. In light of that, why does he support lawmakers 500 miles away in Brussels, rather than in the Assembly and, indeed, in Westminster, where his party takes its seats, making laws for Northern Ireland in over 300…

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  21. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    I support the SDLP Opposition motion as a proud member of the most pro-EU party in the Assembly. Today is about the democratic consent process, which presents us with an opportunity to reflect on where we are, what challenges we face and how we can seize the opportunities that are ahead. The motion is not just a…

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  23. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    I thank the Member for giving way. What you describe is a situation that came to me this morning. A small business owner in our constituency came in great distress to say that she now has to apply additional taxation due to EU tariffs, because her goods arrive from another country via Great Britain. The root cause of…

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  25. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    They say that imitation is the greatest form of flattery, and I suppose that that is what we see today. This debate and vote are very much a dry run for what will come in the coming weeks: the vote on the democratic consent mechanism that was enshrined in article 18 of the original protocol and against which I and…

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