Results 1-20 of 214 for speaker:Mary Bradley

Northern Ireland Assembly: Health, Social Services and Public Safety: Altnagelvin Hospital: Radiotherapy (16 Nov 2009)

Mary Bradley: I acknowledge the work that the Minister has done for the unit at Altnagelvin Hospital. I strongly welcome that and thank him for it. Provided that there are no further threats to plans to build the unit at Altnagelvin Hospital, will the Minister confirm that it will operate as a cross-border unit? There are many concerns about that. I ask the Minister to clear that up if he can.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Legislative Consent Motion (16 Nov 2009)

Mary Bradley: I hope that by now, no Members of the House will argue against the motion. I fully support the ethos of the motion and the UK Child Poverty Bill and its contents. Although there are many intricacies, which my colleague and party leader spoke about during the Bill’s progress at Westminster, it is generally to be welcomed. I am hopeful, given the directives and requirements that the Bill...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Child Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (16 Nov 2009)

Mary Bradley: I thank my colleague, the Minister for Social Development, for bringing to the House for its approval improved regulations to deal with child support. During the year that preceded September 2009, more than 16,000 children benefited from the payment of child maintenance who would normally not have done so. That is to be welcomed. It is important that the Assembly looks after resident parents...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Together Towards Entitlement (16 Nov 2009)

Mary Bradley: Will the Minister confirm the level of communication that there has been between the learning communities and the central group to ensure that they are working in tandem?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Environment: Single Waste Disposal Authority (9 Nov 2009)

Mary Bradley: 9. asked the Minister of the Environment what assurances he can provide that, in establishing the single waste authority, local residents will have an opportunity to express their opinions on the location of new waste infrastructure facilities. (AQO 341/10)

Northern Ireland Assembly: Environment: Single Waste Disposal Authority (9 Nov 2009)

Mary Bradley: The Minister will be aware of the PricewaterhouseCoopers economic appraisal of local government service delivery, which found that there is significant support for the concept of a single waste disposal authority. Will the Minister clarify the basis for that statement by informing us where the support comes from? Will he also outline how a single waste disposal authority will support strong...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Enterprise, Trade And Investment: Economy (3 Nov 2009)

Mary Bradley: 1. asked the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for her assessment of whether the Northern Ireland economy is beginning to recover from recession, given that statistics indicate the lowest monthly rises in the rate of job losses for more than a year. (AQO 303/10)

Northern Ireland Assembly: Enterprise, Trade And Investment: Economy (3 Nov 2009)

Mary Bradley: I agree with the Minister that there is no room for complacency. Given the situation, I ask the Minister to ask tax offices to go easy on our businesses until the economy has made a full recovery.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Culture, Arts and Leisure: Windsor Park Football Ground (20 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: Will the Minister reassure Members that the distribution of grants to football clubs will be balanced geographically and will include football clubs that do not play in the Irish League: I mean Derry City Football Club.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Social Development: Warm Homes Scheme (13 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: Can the Minister tell us what contribution the warm homes scheme has made to the alleviation of fuel poverty in Northern Ireland?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Public Expenditure 2009-2010:  September Monitoring (13 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: Seven health trusts are telling us that they will overspend by tens of millions of pounds this year if they do not cut front line services. As no more money has been allocated, is the Minister telling those trusts to cut front line services? Is there any help to address the issues around Civil Service equal pay claims and the relevant back pay, because I do not see any in the statement?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Agriculture And Rural Development: Rural Childcare Strategy (12 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: I welcome the rural childcare strategy. How many extra childcare places will the strategy fund?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Social Housing (6 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: I am disappointed that the Minister of Finance and Personnel will not be in the Chamber to respond to this important debate. This is the second time that the Minister has failed to respond to such a debate, and that is not good enough. It is well known that there is a lack of funding for social housing. Simon Hamilton is right: the Minister for Social Development was given £20 million in...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Social Housing (6 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: No, I will not. Simon Hamilton should ask his party colleague to recast the Budget and the Programme for Government — something that all serious economic commentators are aware is necessary — before criticising the DSD Minister. He also criticised the University of Ulster report ‘Addressing the Economic Downturn: The Case for Increased Investment in Social Housing’...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Social Housing (6 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: No, I am not giving way. The Northern Ireland Housing Council report also states: “It is widely accepted that housing generally makes a major contribution to Health.” Fra McCann referred to that point, so I hope that he and his party remember that when we ask for their support in getting money to give people decent homes. The Minister for Social Development is doing a great deal...

Northern Ireland Assembly: environment: Planning Decisions (5 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: 8. asked the Minister of the Environment what assurance he can give that the reformed planning policy will contain a strong governance framework to ensure that, where one political party dominates a given council, this party will not have undue influence over planning decisions.        (AQO 157/10)

Northern Ireland Assembly: environment: Planning Decisions (5 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: I thank the Minister for his answer. Will he be working with the transition committees to develop those governance standards and safeguards? Does he agree that, by failing to introduce a governance framework, he is leaving the planning system open to abuse?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Grammar School Entrance Tests (5 Oct 2009)

Mary Bradley: As my colleague Dominic Bradley is the party spokesperson for education, I have no intention of reiterating the valid points that he made. However, I feel that it is incumbent on all of us to work together to solve this problem. We should not be put off by the souring of a political romance that was kept buoyant by the political pundits and an insatiable media thirst. Over the past week, I...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Second Stage (22 Sep 2009)

Mary Bradley: I remind Mr Paisley Jnr of the ‘Hearts and Minds’ programme in February 2009, on which he stated: “I do believe that, if the SDLP had more people here, we certainly would not have been able to get away with some of the things that we have been able to get away with.” That means that the nationalists on these Benches did not fail, and I thank him for his words....

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Home Improvement Grants (15 Sep 2009)

Mary Bradley: I support my party’s amendment to the motion. We have before us an impossible situation that has been caused by a £100 million shortfall in the housing budget. That shortfall was brought about by the economic downturn, and everybody should remember that. I am well aware that there are huge pressures on the Finance Minister’s bank balance. However, the simple fact is staring...