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It is easy to go down the dark tunnel to nowhere. However, over the last year or two, we have seen the public-sector transformation board established with £235 million; public sector pay given £688 million; and a Budget sustainability plan achieved with savings of £113 million. Also, there is a fiscal framework, as…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
Will you take a point, Minister?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
It is.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
We will move on to the real world, where people have to make decisions, do things and be held to account for what they do. Let us see what we have done, despite the financial challenges that the Executive face. More than 27,000 children are in childcare who were not previously, and 20,000 households have benefited…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
Well, —
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
There is no Budget. We have been writing Sinn Féin manifestoes for years.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
Where are all these costings? How much would you spend on the health service? How much would you spend on waste water infrastructure? How much would you spend on housing? How much would you spend on economic development? All those things should be laid out rather than your standing up and saying, "I would do this; I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
Alternative to what?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
You say, "I would do this; I would do that; and I would do the other", but you have not done any of it. That is the point that I am making. Where is your alternative Budget?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
I appreciate the Minister's giving way. He exchanges blows in good part. I will tell you what I would have done first of all. If you had agreed up front a plan that involved decisions, trade-offs and clarity with the public on how much you wanted to spend on the health service and on the decisions that you were going…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
Are you waiting for us to write the Budget for you, Minister?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
The Member is confusing himself and probably others. The Member is the Chair of the Finance Committee: you have access to every document and paper that is required to produce a Budget. The costings for Budgets that my colleagues in the South require are to do with taxation matters. We do not collect taxation here,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
I appreciate the Minister's giving way. Of course, I did not say that I was 10 out of 10 confident that the Budget would be agreed. That was you, Minister. I do not know where you got that from, but I am not going to take your tips. Listowel Races is coming up next week — no, thank you for your tips. However, I will…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
Will the Minister give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I welcome the opportunity to respond to the debate on the motion. Public services continue to face significant pressures; Departments continue to operate without the certainty that an agreed Budget would provide; and the Executive continue to face the challenges of securing a funding…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Budget Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Budget
What I say to the Member and to other Members who seem to be a little bit sceptical, is this: rejoice, rejoice. We are on the same page. You got what you wanted, so why are Members saying that they are disappointed? You have a Minister who listened. The arguments were convincing. The pupils raised their concerns, and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms: Right to Wear Trousers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms: Right to Wear Trousers
It is really disappointing and unfortunate, Minister, that that happened after public money was spent on the drafting of the Committee Bill, given that we talk about affordability. With regard to the choices, has your Department received any data on affordability and the school uniforms change, because we are hearing…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms: Right to Wear Trousers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms: Right to Wear Trousers
I outlined the direction of travel on that issue right from when we first debated it, which was to allow schools to take decisions based on respecting their autonomy but also to enable a much greater level of pupil participation. That requires schools to consult on their policy with pupils and parents and to reflect…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms: Right to Wear Trousers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms: Right to Wear Trousers
I thank the Member for the question. That has been very much informed by the legislation and by two recent court judgements, both of which the Department was successfully able to defend. That is because we want to ensure that the integrated sector is exactly what it proclaims to be — integrated. If an integrated…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Reasonable Numbers Criterion Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Reasonable Numbers Criterion
I thank the Minister for his answer and those stark statistics. Will the Minister set out his approach to what would constitute "reasonable numbers" in a new school rather than in a transforming school?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Reasonable Numbers Criterion Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Reasonable Numbers Criterion
I thank the Member for his question. Obviously, that issue is one that has been discussed in relation to "reasonable numbers", primarily within the integrated sector. It is clear that many schools that have already transformed and are now controlled integrated schools do not satisfy the "reasonable numbers" criterion…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Reasonable Numbers Criterion Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Integrated Schools: Reasonable Numbers Criterion
One can only speculate as to why Sinn Féin does not want to have a managing authority for controlled schools — a sector that caters predominantly for the Protestant community, albeit its schools' enrolments are becoming increasingly diverse. One can only speculate on why it wants to make provision for the continuation…
Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations Criteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education: Legislative Agenda Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education: Legislative Agenda
I thank the Minister for his response. Minister, will you inform the House why the controlled schools paper has not yet received Executive approval?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education: Legislative Agenda Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education: Legislative Agenda
There are a number of pieces of legislation that I wish to take through. I secured Executive approval for the council for controlled schools Bill by way of a policy to be publicly consulted upon. That was presented as a draft Bill to the Executive in June and is waiting for the First Minister to allow it to come onto…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education: Legislative Agenda Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education: Legislative Agenda
We are reviewing how the current process was managed. My officials are engaged in that process with the EA, but there should not be a repeat of what has happened with transport provision in the next academic year. My focus at the moment is to make sure that every single child has that provision put in place. There is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Transport Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Special Educational Needs: Transport
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