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- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: Will the Member give way?
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: Will the Member give way?
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: I will reply to what Mr McCarthy has just said, since I was the Minister responsible, and I attended almost 60 meetings of the North/South Ministerial Council, some in the company of the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, Sir Reg Empey. I cannot recall a single meeting that we spent arguing with each other. If we argued at all, we argued together against our Southern counterparts.
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: Will the Member give way?
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: I beg to move That this Assembly recognises the increasing significance of North-South co-operation in a range of sectors such as health, agriculture, education, research and development, and on a range of infrastructure projects such as roads and public transport, energy and tourism; and calls for an intensification of such co-operation to maximise the mutual benefit to the people of the...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: Members can define “we” for themselves. However, many Members on Mr Campbell’s side of the Chamber — perhaps not all Members — are willing to react positively to certain proposals and initiatives. Those Members could be included in the “we” to whom I have referred. As I was saying, there is evidence of the intensification of North/South co-operation...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: Will the Member give way?
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: I am not sure that we are having a —
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: The Member has already given way.
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North/South Co-Operation (29 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: If the Member had listened carefully to what I said and to what the Ministers who came to make announcements about the National Development Plan 2007-2013 said, the word “agreement” and the phrase “to mutual benefit” were repeated throughout their remarks on any of the proposed projects. Does the Member accept that it will be up to the restored institutions to enter...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Sudan (16 Jan 2007)
Sean Farren: Almost 60 years ago, just three years after the most genocidal conflict in human history, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by declaring genocide to be a crime under international law that the civilised world must seek to prevent. Today’s motion directs Members’ attention to an instance of ongoing...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (4 Dec 2006)
Sean Farren: Were you there? [Laughter.]
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (4 Dec 2006)
Sean Farren: Is the Member pleased to see me go?
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (4 Dec 2006)
Sean Farren: I suppose that it could have been predicted that, at a time when our thoughts and plans should have been focused on our future, today’s debate — the first full debate in our transitional format — would find us once again back in the blame game. That is what the motion, and its amendment, has invited us to engage in, with unionists attempting to out-unionist unionists, and...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Secretary of State Motion: Report on Institutional Issues (3 Oct 2006)
Sean Farren: Does the Member not agree that the entire agenda of the PFG Committee dealing with institutional matters was structured around the basic framework of the Good Friday Agreement? Page six of the report lists the issues requiring resolution — the deal-breakers — only one of which requires explicit change to the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. Talk about fundamental changes...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Secretary of State Motion: Report on Institutional Issues (3 Oct 2006)
Sean Farren: I would like to express my appreciation, as others have done, to the staff who serviced the PFG Committee throughout its deliberations, and on institutional issues in particular. In a perverse way, I enjoyed many of the encounters in the Committee. I am not suggesting that we should continue in the same vein all the time, but nonetheless there was an element of satisfaction to be gained from...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Report on the Economic Challenges facing Northern Ireland (12 Sep 2006)
Sean Farren: The motion serves two critical and highly significant objectives. First, the subgroup’s report is based on the full support of all the parties that have met over the past weeks. It is also based on the significant input of representatives from a wide range of interest groups, and that alone should commend it not only to Members but to Departments and to the community and business...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Report on the Economic Challenges facing Northern Ireland (12 Sep 2006)
Sean Farren: Does the Member acknowledge that university tuition fees were abolished in Southern universities some years ago, and that that abolition applies as much to students from Northern Ireland as it does to students from the South?
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Report on the Economic Challenges facing Northern Ireland (11 Sep 2006)
Sean Farren: I thank the Member for giving way. Does the Member agree that there are benefits to collaboration, notwithstanding the inevitable competition that exists everywhere, whether within Northern Ireland, between Derry and Belfast, or between Cork and Dublin in the Republic? Does he not note the favourable comments of those who participated in the Irish-Government-led delegation to India some...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Report on the Economic Challenges facing Northern Ireland (11 Sep 2006)
Sean Farren: It was £20 billion.