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  1. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    Mr Speaker, I take the opportunity to thank you and wish you well for the future. It looks, however, from what we are hearing in the Chamber today, as though you will not be going anywhere. It is fair to say that the people at home who are watching today, and who have been watching since we returned to the Assembly at…

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  2. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    It is somewhat cynical of parties that, for years, have been complaining that you cannot have majority rule to now call for majority rule. That, essentially, in the speech that we have just heard, is what Mr Muir was seeking in the House. He was railing against the Good Friday Agreement — the very agreement that they…

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  3. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    Since the Member is articulating those issues, maybe he will tell us what the Alliance Party's current view is on the fundamental building block that it holds to in respect of consent. Is consent not a fundamental building block of these institutions, whether one likes it or not, and, therefore, is it not wholly…

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  4. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    I will start by paying tribute to you in your term of office as Speaker. When you were elected as Speaker back in January 2020, I knew that you were a man of good workmanship as you helped to decorate my grandparents' home and did a very good job, and they were delighted with it. You did not fail to impress in your…

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  5. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    • Mrs Naomi Long Alliance
    • Speaker's Business
    • As a minister

    Will the Member accept that, if we are going to talk about truth and transparency, it is not just the balance between unionism and nationalism that has changed, but it is a fact that there are Ministers in office at this point who are desirous of scrutiny, who have jobs to do and who need a functioning Chamber in…

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  6. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    We have just come through an election, and my party has won a mandate. It is difficult for some other Members to respect, but that mandate is to not go into an Executive until we deal with the instability of the protocol and the long shadow that it casts. When it comes to the election of a Speaker, there has been a…

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  7. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Just to clarify, I did indicate, but I appreciate that it was in Irish, so apologies. Thug Alex a shaol don tseirbhís phoiblí agus do ghníomhaíochtaí polaitíochta, agus tá a fhios agam go leanfaidh sin ar aghaidh san am atá romhainn. Ádh mór ort, a chara, agus ar Liz. Go raibh…

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  8. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Tabharfaidh mé faill do na Comhaltaí cluasáin a úsáid más maith leo. Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis labhairt inniu agus muid ag cur ainmneacha chun cinn le Ceann Comhairle agus, le cuidiú Dé, Leas-Chinn Comhairle a roghnú sa Teach inniu. Ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas ó chroí a…

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  9. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    Mr Speaker, I wish you well. I was going to say "in your retirement", but, somehow, I think that you may not be able to retire from this place or politics. I wish you well and thank you for your service. I also thank the good people of West Belfast for returning me to the Assembly. I am proud to take up the baton as…

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  10. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    • Mrs Naomi Long Alliance
    • Speaker's Business
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for giving way. Would he agree that the real leverage is not these institutions? The real leverage that is being exercised here is the pain of the public of Northern Ireland. It is not that the institutions will be harmed — by the way, unionism should think long and hard about upsetting the…

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  11. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    There is no reason in the characteristics or personalities of Mike Nesbitt or Patsy McGlone why either of them would not make a perfectly adequate and good Speaker. However, the circumstances are such that it is not appropriate to proceed to the election of a Speaker, for one simple reason. In politics, when a…

    Flagged Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty Criteria met: Identity framing.

  12. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    First of all, on behalf of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, I welcome all newly elected MLAs to the Chamber. I also thank you, Mr Speaker, for your work over the past two and a half years. I hope that you are able to finish it soon, because you worked hard for all of us over the past two and a half years and…

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  13. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    Thank you, Mr Speaker. Silence. That is the silence that we were subjected to for three years when Sinn Féin walked out and the silence that we will now be subjected to if the DUP does not support a Speaker. People will go cold and hungry in their home, and, from this place, there will be silence. People will die on…

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  14. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    • Mrs Naomi Long Alliance
    • Speaker's Business
    • As a minister

    First of all, I thank you, Mr Speaker, for presiding over the operations of the Chamber for the last number of years. Your fairness and inclusivity as Speaker were reflected both in the changes that were made to our procedures in order to ensure that independent Members and smaller groupings had a full opportunity to…

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  15. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    I thank the Member for giving way. The House will know that the DUP, and unionism, has a very clear mandate to deal with the Irish Sea border. In that respect, does the Member find it quite bizarre that the word "power-sharing" was missing from the lips of the leader of Sinn Féin, Michelle O'Neill, and that many in…

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  16. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    I, too, thank you, Mr Speaker, for your work as Speaker of the Assembly, not only in guiding 90 Members but in advising on private Members' Bills, one of which I had. I wish you well. The class of '98 has been reduced, with, I think, only three Members in the Chamber today who were here all those years ago. In October…

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  17. Debate contribution: Election of Speaker and Deputy Speakers

    First, I congratulate all colleagues across the Chamber on their successful election results, and I welcome everybody to this Assembly. We look forward to working together in the time ahead. It is truly a special honour for any of us who holds elected office to represent the communities from which we come. We carry…

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