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  2. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    OK. Thank you very much. Thanks for that. We have made it clear from the start that holding the entire Executive to one standard will fail. You will curtail individual Ministers who are delivering real change. Look at what has been achieved in the past three years. Through this Bill, you will potentially curtail…

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  8. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for giving way. I want to come back to the Executive point, because it is the one that I am really concerned about. When you say that you are going to check how the Executive are performing against one standard, you are setting yourself up for failure, because you are holding the fact that there is…

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  10. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    I am proud to speak in support of my brilliant colleague Sinéad McLaughlin's Bill. To say that it is a labour of love would be understating it. It has been a huge labour — a social democratic labour — of love, but it is also based on a deep love for the maiden city — the city of Derry — which Sinéad represents…

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  11. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    Yes, we have seen a few of those too. I think of Shackleton Barracks, which was fast-tracked through the Executive. It was not given the hurdles to jump over and the hoops to jump through that Fort George and Ebrington faced in Derry in order to get approval through the Executive. I think of the Peace Bridge and the…

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  12. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    Thank you very much, Mr Durkan. I would like to point out one thing. Every DUP Member who has spoken in the debate has done so in support of the Bill. I do not know why Mr Delargy is getting on his political high horse. It is bash-the-DUP day. Fortunately, I do not get into, "He said, she said" nonsense, but I can…

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  16. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    Thank you. I suppose that I am talking about the wholescale blockage of any progress. I understand that what you suggest and what is in the Bill is about trying to advance across all Departments, and I am absolutely supportive of that. However, I am realistic as well, and the reality is that that might not be the…

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  17. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    Regional balance has to become embedded in how government operates, but I appreciate the concerns that you raise. I am sure that the Bill sponsor will be happy to discuss those matters and for us to flesh out the least-risk approach. I will give way to Mr Delargy.

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  18. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    Thank you. You have just made the argument for exactly what my colleague said, which is that there is a risk if we give that responsibility and potential veto to the Executive. When it is with an individual Minister, at least that Minister can be held accountable. You know, however — you will have seen it many times…

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  20. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    I will in a wee minute, Mrs Dillon. We cannot afford to start that conversation from scratch every five years depending on who the Minister is and what party they are from. We cannot keep waiting for the political stars to align. I hear Sinn Féin's concerns that progress could meet with resistance in the Executive. We…

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  22. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    It is and will remain a cross-cutting issue. It applies to every Department, so, by extension of your logic, whichever Minister, from whatever party, who takes up whichever office, they, rather than the Executive, could put a stop to it. It would then be called in to the Executive anyway because it was cross-cutting,…

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  23. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for giving way. I agree with a lot of what he has said. On your point about the Executive, I will raise a constructive concern. I have a worry, which I hope that others across the Chamber, including yourself, will have picked up on, about the fact that this potentially gives the DUP a break and…

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  24. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    I begin by paying tribute to my colleague Sinéad McLaughlin for the enormous amount of work that she has put into bringing the Bill before the Assembly. As a member of the north-west SDLP team and the north-west MLA team — we work pretty well with our neighbouring constituencies — I know exactly where her…

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  25. Debate contribution: Regional Balance Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Bill sponsor, Sinéad, for all the hard work that she has put into bringing the Bill this far. I give it tacit support at this stage and wish her well for its passage to Committee Stage. Regional balance must be more than a phrase in a departmental strategy. It must mean that where someone lives does not…

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