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A selection of Conor Murphy's votes

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• Has never voted on removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords
• Has never voted on reducing central government funding of local government
• Has never voted on a more proportional system for electing MPs
• Has never voted on a reduction in spending on welfare benefits
• Has never voted on reducing housing benefit for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour describe as the "bedroom tax")
• Has never voted on paying higher benefits over longer periods for those unable to work due to illness or disability

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Recent appearances

• Northern Ireland Assembly: Ministerial Statement: Public Inquiry on the Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme 24 Jan 2017

  Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. It appears, Minister, that everyone here was clamouring for a public independent inquiry but now wants to stamp their conditions on such an inquiry. The Minister clearly identifies that public confidence in this institution has been shattered as a result of the behaviour of successive DUP Ministers in relation to the issue. Is he certain that the inquiry...

• Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 23 Jan 2017

  The Member may well be correct in that assertion, but the reality is that, in January 2016, the Committee was first advised of it, and the deputy First Minister was advised by the senior civil servant, the head of the Civil Service at that time, that the scheme had run out of control and that the advice of the officials in July was to close it down. Quite clearly, nobody in the Department of...

• Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017 23 Jan 2017

  I can assure you that I am as much across this part of my brief as anybody who has been at the Committee. I notice that the Committee failed to take any position with regard to this proposition when it was put to them.

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Sinn Féin MLA for Newry and Armagh, Former Sinn Féin MP for Newry and Armagh

Entered the House of Commons on 5 May 2005 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 30 March 2015 — General election

Entered the Assembly on 25 June 1998 — General election

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• Expenses from 2010 onwards

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Seamus Mallon
• Jim Nicholson

Future MPs in this constituency

• Mickey Brady

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