Results 1-20 of 258 for speaker:Martina Anderson

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Transport Sectoral Format (17 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: Go raibh maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. I thank the Minister for his statement. Were decisions taken at the North/South Ministerial Council meeting in transport sectoral format on 4 November non-dismissible and robust in terms of their implement­ation by the respective Departments here and in Leinster House? I ask that in the context of the decision that was made about the A5,...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Institutional Format (17 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: Go raibh maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. Will the joint First Minister detail discussions on the plans that are in place to inform teachers about recent changes in pension arrangements for those in the profession who wish to work in the North and the South?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: British-Irish Council Summit Meeting (17 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: Go raibh maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. If BIC is more robust than it has been before, and if, as Mervyn Storey suggested and the junior Minister somewhat confirmed, it now has teeth, the reports that emanate from it are not as easy to dismiss and their implementation will be more robust. In that context, and given the discussion on indigenous, minority and lesser-used languages and the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Regional Development: Flooding: Foyle (16 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: 9. asked the Minister for Regional Development how Roads Service and Northern Ireland Water responded to the recent flooding in the Foyle area.    (AQO 384/10)

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

Martina Anderson: Go raibh maith agat. I support the legislative consent motion. When the Committee for the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister’s child poverty inquiry looked into the issues, it laid bare the scandalous extent of child poverty here. Moreover, it demonstrated the need for a proactive and cross-cutting measure to combat it. The first thing I did as a newly elected MLA...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (10 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: I am sorry. I would like some clarity. I was confused when the Member spoke about what happened in Foyle. He mentioned that the election was run by d’Hondt. Can the Member explain that, please?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (10 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: I did not say that that would not be acceptable to the Sinn Féin electorate. Under its outgoing leader, the SDLP has had six electoral defeats. I said that the republican and nationalist community will not accept a DUP or UUP Minister. If the Member had her finger on the pulse of the community she would know that.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (10 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: Go raibh míle maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. I oppose the first group of amendments — amendment Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4 — and I declare an interest as a member of the Policing Board. The Bill demonstrates that the process of delivering policing and justice powers into the hands of locally elected politicians is moving forward. Key stages in that process have been reached,...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (10 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: Go raibh míle maith agat. I will deal with the issue of the sunset clause. The provision for the British Secretary of State to impose a ministerial model of policing and justice becomes spent once the Assembly passes an Act. That is a fact, and the purpose of the powers as previously stated was to allow the British Secretary of State to intervene to kick-start the transfer of powers....

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (10 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: Do not take it personally.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Clause 1 (The Department of Justice) (10 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: I am confused. Will the Member clarify whether he and his party are against the principle of sunset clauses? The SDLP claims credit for securing a sunset clause in the St Andrews Agreement. I want some clarity on whether the SDLP is against the principle of establishing a sunset clause.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (3 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: Go raibh maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. Tá mé ag labhairt in éadan an rúin agus ar son an leasaithe. I support the motion, but I wish to speak in favour of the amendment. Sorry, I mean that I oppose the motion and wish to speak in favour of the amendment. Got it all wrong there.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (3 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: I know, I know. I was just giving you some hope where there is none. As a former member of the Bill of Rights Forum, I welcomed the handover document from the Human Rights Commission and the advice to the British Secretary of State last December. I want to see the consultation document published as soon as possible. Therefore, I agree with the amendment. After many long years of waiting, the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (3 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: I am sure that the unionists will explain to their electorate why they rejected all the bill of rights protections that were discussed in the Bill of Rights Forum. Go raibh míle maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle.

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

Martina Anderson: Go raibh maith agat. Is the Minister engaging with her Executive colleagues to address the failure to make natural gas available in social housing? I am aware that the heating replacement programme for social housing has ground to a halt. I am also conscious that there is a pipeline outside Altnagelvin Hospital that could be used to serve the hospital and other public buildings. Is the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North-west Region (3 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: On a point of information, the difference between Ilex and the Welsh initiative is that Ilex does not have a budget, but the National Assembly for Wales is looking at the area that it has designated so that it can put a budget towards the plan for implementation.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North-west Region (3 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: Will the Member give way?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North-west Region (3 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: The Member was not present for the early part of the debate; I accept that people are busy. As last week’s figures from DETI show, the north-west has the highest level of income deprivation, one of the highest rates of child poverty and the highest level of unemployment. What we are asking for is not revolutionary. We are asking for the fulfilment of a Programme for Government...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North-west Region (3 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: [Interruption.]

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: North-west Region (3 Nov 2009)

Martina Anderson: I beg to move: That this Assembly recognises the impact that the economic recession has had on the north-west region; and calls on the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment and the Minister for Employment and Learning to declare the north-west an area of special economic need and to take new and innovative measures to mitigate the economic crisis in the region. Go raibh maith agat....