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Social Democratic and Labour Party MLA for Belfast South

Entered the Assembly on 11 January 2020 — appointed

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• Northern Ireland Assembly: Adjournment: Integrated Education Provision: South Belfast 14 Jan 2025

  I am really glad that I gave way, because the Member is right. These debates get into the mud so quickly, and we end up looking as though we are virtue-signalling, or we offend people, or we talk around the issues. Holy Rosary Primary School is an amazing maintained primary school near me with lots of kids on free school meals and lots of kids from ethnic minority backgrounds for whom English...

• Northern Ireland Assembly: Adjournment: Integrated Education Provision: South Belfast 14 Jan 2025

  I am pleased that Paula Bradshaw secured the Adjournment debate and hope that we hear from the Minister about what he is doing to support integrated education in South Belfast. Like Paula, I am not going to use the debate as an opportunity to relitigate some of what we robustly debated yesterday and in the days before that. I am sure that we will have the opportunity to do so again in the...

• Northern Ireland Assembly: Opposition Business: Gender-responsive Budgeting 14 Jan 2025

  I thank the Member for giving way. He shares my frustration with this place voting through motions that are not acted on. I certainly intend to hold the Minister to account for the delivery of gender-responsive budgeting. She has indicated her broad support for it. The Member can take my assurance that we will hold the Finance Minister and the rest of the Executive accountable for it through...

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