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I thank the First Minister for her answer. Does she agree that, while housing is the responsibility of the Housing Executive, integration is very much her Department's responsibility? While the work being done in TEO is welcome, there are issues with the governance, and people are falling through the gaps,…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Housing: Refugees Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Housing: Refugees
The provision of housing, including for those granted refugee status, is the responsibility of the Housing Executive. Following the introduction of the Home Office's streamlined asylum process, the pace and volume of asylum decisions has increased significantly. Whilst we welcome work to reduce the backlog and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Housing: Refugees Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Housing: Refugees
To confirm and maybe correct the record for the Member, the Executive have been formed for nine or 10 weeks now. That is how long we have been having the official conversation on the Programme for Government. I am glad to say that work continues apace to develop that Programme for Government. I am more interested in…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities
It is welcome to hear that the Programme for Government on which the Executive parties have been working for over a year will be published in the summer. Given that it is required to be consulted on, will the First Minister give a commitment that it will be published before the summer recess to give people the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities
As I said in the aftermath of the Kenova report and on taking up the office of First Minister, I regret every single loss of life. I regret that people were born into a society in which conflict was all around them. Our job, as political leaders, is to try to help to heal the wounds of the past. Our job, as political…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities
Do victims' issues feature in the strategic priorities? If so, why does the First Minister, although deploying weasel words about regretting all deaths, persistently refuse, thereby insulting IRA victims, to condemn Provisional IRA murders, including those recently highlighted in the Kenova report? Were those murders…
Decided on a second assessment. Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism Criteria met: Identity framing.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities
Absolutely. I am pleased to say that, collectively, the four parties around the Executive table have prioritised the issue of affordable childcare. Whilst we all might have slightly different approaches to policy, work is under way to find an agreed way forward. As the Member reflected, childcare costs are far too…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities
I thank the First Minister for her answer and welcome the clear commitment to improved childcare provision for families in the North. Does the Minister agree that that provision must be affordable for parents and families and that any childcare solution that we look at needs to be bespoke and suit every family? Does…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities
We have spoken previously about our key priorities, including childcare, reducing hospital waiting lists, tackling violence against women and girls, special educational needs, Lough Neagh, housing and developing a globally competitive economy. A considerable amount of other work is also under way. The Executive's most…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Office: Strategic Priorities
We are all aware that, with the Executive restored just over eight weeks ago, we are in a difficult budgetary situation. We know that we are underfunded. As I said, the Executive encountered a challenging Budget position for 2023-24, and difficult decisions had to be made. To inform the decision-making process and how…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund
Does the junior Minister agree that, notwithstanding all the good work and good relations that you mentioned, the Executive's decision not to put back the ring fence for integrated schools, effectively colluding with the UK Government to remove that funding from integrated schools, damages the good relations agenda?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Chomhalta as ucht a cheiste. There has been significant progress in delivery of the Together: Building a United Community strategy since its implementation. Over 30,000 young people have taken part in 870 T:BUC camps, five Urban Villages areas have been established, and the target of building…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund
Can the Minister provide an update on delivery of the Together: Building a United Community strategy?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund
Good relations impacts are measured at a project level by looking at the challenges for those from a different background in participating in good relations projects; such challenges may come in the knowledge of and attitudes and behaviour towards those people. It is also done through funded stakeholder project…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund
I thank the junior Minister for her answer. How will the Department ensure that the good relations fund addresses the specific needs and challenges faced by marginalised communities, particularly women, who often bear the brunt of economic disparities and a lack of resources?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund
The central good relations fund (CGRF) is an annual merit-based programme designed to deliver and support projects in areas where there is good relations need. Funding is awarded, subject to budget, to those groups that score highest in the assessment process. Welcome statements are used to identify particular…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund
With your permission, Mr Speaker, junior Minister Reilly will answer the question.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Central Good Relations Fund
I absolutely concur with the Member about what is happening to the people of Palestine. The genocide must end, and it must end now. Six months on, it is harrowing to watch the scenes. The people in that region need support, an urgent ceasefire, humanitarian aid and a political solution. I, personally, took the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024
With the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, what representations did you make to the powers that be in the United States to call for a ceasefire and for humanitarian aid for the impoverished people of Palestine, who are being slaughtered?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024
Yes. The opportunity that we had six or seven weeks into a re-formed Executive was huge. As I said, the positivity was fantastic, not just from investors. We were there to say that we are open for business. I believe that there will be a lot more to come in the pipeline. The investment did not come just as a result of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024
Will the First Minister list any further investments that were secured as a result of her engagements in the US? We have heard of one. Are there others in the pipeline? Is it a strong pipeline?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024
The Member referenced one of the companies that has chosen to invest here, which is really positive. I can tell the House that the whole four to five days that we were there were hugely beneficial for us. There was huge goodwill. The Chair of the Executive Office Committee was there also, as were the Education…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024
Thank you for the update. I welcome the positive announcement about the huge investment of the in-kind donation from the US computer software company Alteryx. How confident is the First Minister that we can build upon that fantastic, positive news for Northern Ireland?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024
The deputy First Minister and I travelled to Washington DC for a series of St Patrick's Day engagements. We travelled from 13 to 17 March. We represented the four-party coalition of the Executive and their shared objectives as part of that engagement. It was our first international visit and an important opportunity…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: USA Visit, March 2024
I thank the Member for her question. First, we agree with the principles of the recommendations in the report that were brought forward at the time. We firmly believe that high streets must be supported. However, a more detailed consideration of the task force recommendations and how we bring them forward, as well as…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: High Street Task Force: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: High Street Task Force: Update
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