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  4. Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    If you would listen, you would understand. There is a duty on the Executive to bring it forward. Executive colleagues have not come back to me. The Economy Minister has not come back to me. The Finance Minister refused to do anything other than to note it. The Infrastructure Minister was not happy. She said that she…

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  6. Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    See, this is the problem with Sinn Féin: when Sinn Féin Members get an answer that they do not like, they seek to blame other people. It is in black and white. The judge said that there is not a duty on me to bring it forward; there is a duty on the —

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  7. Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    "Absolutely not", she says. I encourage her to read the judgement to see who has not responded. The Minister for the Economy did not respond to me. Were the Member to read the judgement, she would understand that there is not a duty on me to —

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  11. Debate contribution: Anti-poverty Strategy

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    The anti-poverty strategy has not been published because further work is being done on it to ensure that there is support around the Chamber and that it has the confidence of those who have been lobbying on the issue. That work has progressed, and I look forward to its being completed so that we can get the strategy…

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  12. Debate contribution: Arts Sector: Concerns

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Clearly, the Member did not listen to what I said about the work that has been done on an arts policy that, subject to Executive agreement, will be delivered. He should sit out the question on the Irish language strategy, because, according to the court judgement, his party has been the biggest blocker of that…

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  13. Debate contribution: Arts Sector: Concerns

    Go raibh maith agat, Minister, for that answer. Given that the Minister has failed to deliver on an arts policy, temporary accommodation, a proper Irish language strategy or a meaningful anti-poverty strategy, what will he deliver for those areas by the end of the mandate?

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  14. Debate contribution: Arts Sector: Concerns

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Yes, I accept the concerns. The outcome of the meeting was that we had a good conversation, and I outlined what I have already said in the House on the increase in funding, the fact that more needs to be done and the fact that an arts policy will be delivered.

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  15. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Yes, it is. If people read the Bill, they will see that it states: "a person provides or carries out conversion therapy if the person provides or carries out any ... coaching or instruction". When I go along to church, coaching and instruction is part of the religious activity. I think that Mr Tennyson would say that…

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  16. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill

    I thank the Minister for his comments thus far on the debate, including everything that he has said in interviews on radio and television. I agree with everything that you have said. Will you go further and agree with me that this is an attack on religious freedoms?

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  17. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    It is not an attack, Kellie. Here we go again: people take language to mean what it does not mean. I am simply highlighting the fallacy of your argument. Let us base this not on emotion but on the text that is in front of us. I do not know whether this is Mr Tennyson's intention, but nowhere in the Bill does it…

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  19. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Yes, I do. It is wrong for others to trivialise or belittle people's views on that when they are based on the very text of a Bill that is before us. I see that Kellie Armstrong is shaking her head. Kellie, I remind you that you said in Committee that you were a bit of a nerd and an expert on some things and then had…

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  20. Debate contribution: Arts Funding: Barnett Consequentials

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    First and foremost, I hope that that will be done through the delivery of an arts policy that ticks all of the boxes that need to be ticked, so that we have continued sustainability, innovation and collaboration. I hope that that will be a significant legacy for the arts. A focus of mine during my time in office has…

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  21. Debate contribution: Arts Funding: Barnett Consequentials

    Thank you, Minister. I suppose that, off the back of the fleadh, you are in a good position to make that call, but I will move on. We have had a shortened mandate. We have had only three years for the Programme for Government. In the conversation with the arts sector representatives earlier there was disappointment…

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  22. Debate contribution: Arts Funding: Barnett Consequentials

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    As the Member will be aware, money is unfortunately not ring-fenced when it comes to us as a Barnett consequential. I would love it if it were, because, in so many areas of my Department, we are one of the biggest losers when it comes to Barnett consequentials, be that in employability programmes, work to tackle fraud…

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  23. Debate contribution: Arts Policy and Funding

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I am grateful to the Member for highlighting the issue again. I will say what I said before, which is that we find ourselves in a constrained environment. I am looking for the best budget settlement for my Department so that I can fund all the areas that are so critical, including the arts. Again, I put it on record…

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  24. Debate contribution: Arts Policy and Funding

    I thank the Minister. Does he recognise that a failure to fund the arts adequately threatens not just tens of thousands of livelihoods and the massive socio-economic benefits that the arts create but the very infrastructure that made the fleadh such a success and has made this small place such a big player on the…

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  25. Debate contribution: Arts Policy and Funding

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    First, that was a slightly better quip than normal. The Member is improving. I said "slightly". Well done to him. I wonder how long it took him to think that up. I say this very clearly: the arts policy is following the timelines and timescales that were originally set out. We have completed the framework. The first…

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