Results 1-20 of 172 for speaker:Francie Brolly

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

Francie Brolly: Go raibh maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. I support the motion. As one who has lived in the north-west for a few years — it is recorded that my family has lived in the north-west for over 1,000 years — I have the abiding impression of a great people living in a condition that has ebbed and flowed, particularly since the establishment of this state. But, unlike the tides in the...

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

Francie Brolly: We all understand that Derry city airport is subsidised by the ratepayers of the area. However, if the Member is right, I stand corrected, and I thank him for his intervention. Another devastating ebbing — another great hole in the ground — was created when the American manufacturers, who came here and were paid well for doing so, left when their subsidies ran out. The building...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Education: Irish-medium Schools (2 Nov 2009)

Francie Brolly: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Cheann­Comhairle. What criteria are used for the establishment of new schools?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Finance and Personnel: Rating of Empty Homes (6 Oct 2009)

Francie Brolly: 1. asked the Minister of Finance and Personnel how much revenue will be lost by the postponement of the rating of empty homes.                        (AQO 165/10)

Northern Ireland Assembly: Finance and Personnel: Rating of Empty Homes (6 Oct 2009)

Francie Brolly: Go raibh míle maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. Ceist a haon. Question 1.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Finance and Personnel: Rating of Empty Homes (6 Oct 2009)

Francie Brolly: I thank the Minister. He has probably answered my supplementary question, which was whether the real reason that the rating of empty homes was not implemented was because Land and Property Services has difficulty in delivering it.

Northern Ireland Assembly: environment: PPS 21 (5 Oct 2009)

Francie Brolly: 13. asked the Minister of the Environment when the final version of PPS 21 will be presented. (AQO 162/10)

Northern Ireland Assembly: environment: PPS 21 (5 Oct 2009)

Francie Brolly: Is the Minister aware of the concern among not only rural dwellers but developers about the delay in bringing the final version of PPS 21 to the House?

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

Francie Brolly: Brief advice.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Culture, Arts and Leisure: GAA: Hunger Strike Commemoration (22 Sep 2009)

Francie Brolly: Go raibh míle maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. Does the Minister accept that it would be illegal for his Department to discriminate against any sports club with regard to its funding criteria?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Adjournment: Sectarianism in Coleraine (22 Sep 2009)

Francie Brolly: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. After the murder of Kevin McDaid, go ndéana Dia trócaire air, I spent considerable time in Somerset Drive with his family and the residents, and I attended Kevin’s funeral. Following my first visit to what was, for me, a different and very unhappy world, I drove home feeling a mixture of sadness, depression and anger that...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Adjournment: Sectarianism in Coleraine (22 Sep 2009)

Francie Brolly: Yes, I accept that. I made the point that there is a significant Catholic community in Coleraine and that that has to receive greater acknowledgement. In contrast to the anecdotal evidence from the letter that the Member read, at the time of Kevin McDaid’s murder, and in the days and weeks following it, the unionist version of the Ulster flag that was hanging from a house in Somerset...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Financial Support for Sports Clubs (21 Sep 2009)

Francie Brolly: Will the Member give way?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Language Body Sectoral Format (15 Sep 2009)

Francie Brolly: An cheist atá agam: an bhfuil a fhios ag an Aire cad é an cineál taispeántais a bhí ann ag an Tall Ships agus a bheas ann i gCill Dara an tseachtain seo chugainn? What kind of stall or joint exhibition was at the Tall Ships event, and what kind of stall will there be at the National Ploughing Championships in County Kildare?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial StatementS: North/South Ministerial Council: Aquaculture and Marine Sectoral Format (14 Sep 2009)

Francie Brolly: Go raibh míle maith agat, a LeasCheann Comhairle. Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis an Aire as a ráiteas. Tá ceist amháin agam air. Will the Minister explain what the marine tourism strategy is hoping to achieve?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial statement: Transfer 2010 (30 Jun 2009)

Francie Brolly: Go raibh míle maith agat. In the absence of regulation, are children facing the prospect of sitting more than one selection test for entrance to a grammar school?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Office Of The First Minister And Deputy First Minister: Children’s Action Plan (29 Jun 2009)

Francie Brolly: 2. asked the First Minister and the deputy First Minister what plans they have to bring forward a children’s action plan that reflects each Department’s response to the concluding observations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.       (AQO 3054/09)

Northern Ireland Assembly: Office Of The First Minister And Deputy First Minister: Children’s Action Plan (29 Jun 2009)

Francie Brolly: Go raibh maith agat. I note the junior Minister’s assurance that children and young people will be consulted. Can he give a commitment that that consultation will be on an ongoing basis?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Report on the Northern Ireland Assembly Code of Conduct and the Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members (23 Jun 2009)

Francie Brolly: I wish to make a point about the genesis of the ministerial code and my suspicions of it. It is important to realise that, elsewhere, Ministers generally come from the same party. Our circumstances are different here, and we should consider whether we should take on a code that may have had its genesis in a circling of the wagons by important members of one party in Westminster.

Northern Ireland Assembly: Committee Business: Report on the Northern Ireland Assembly Code of Conduct and the Guide to the Rules Relating to the Conduct of Members (23 Jun 2009)

Francie Brolly: Go raibh maith agat. I want to be associated with Members’ remarks commending the new Committee Clerk, Paul Gill, and the previous Committee Clerk, Dr Kevin Pelan, who spent a long time with the Committee. I hope that he is doing well wherever he is now. I also commend the Committee Chairperson, who did a very good job. There were hairy moments now and again, but the Chairperson did...