Sinn Féin MLA for East Londonderry
I beg to introduce the Renewable Electricity Generation Bill [NIA Bill 42/22-27], which is a Bill to confer powers to provide financial assistance for the purposes of encouraging low-carbon electricity generation. Bill passed First Stage and ordered to be printed.
I seek the Assembly's approval for the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Employment and Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026. The statutory rule was made on 1 April and came into operation on 6 April. It is before the Assembly today under the confirmatory procedure. Again, I am grateful to the Economy Committee and the Examiner of Statutory Rules for their scrutiny of...
I beg to move That the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 be approved.
Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. [Translation: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker.] I seek the Assembly's approval for the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026. The rule was made on 19 March and came into operation on 20 March. It is before the Assembly today under the confirmatory procedure, and I am grateful to the Committee for...
I thank all the Members who spoke in support of the regulations. I reiterate my thanks to the Committee for the Economy for its scrutiny of the legislation. I am happy to commend the regulations to the Assembly. Question put and agreed to. Resolved: That the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 be approved.
I beg to move That the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Employment and Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 be approved.
I can assure the Member that they are certainly not overlooked or forgotten by me, as someone who represents those areas. I do not accept the Member's assertion that the north-west means Derry and Strabane. It is much wider than Derry and Strabane. We should be looking at the significant potential of the whole economy of the north-west, because we have really significant institutions there...
In establishing the £45 million regional balance fund, I have empowered councils, working with businesses and community partners in local economic partnerships (LEPs) to identify their own priorities and bring forward locally led projects to increase productivity. Decisions on what to deliver and where to deliver it are taken by the Belfast local economic partnership. I am pleased to report...
