Did you mean column Eastwood?
Colum Eastwood: I am here.
Colum Eastwood: Further to the previous questions, given the fact that some people in local government may think that the partnership panel could become a talking shop, can the Minister give them any reassurances that that will not be the case?
Colum Eastwood: Given its importance in attracting FDI, what involvement did the deputy First Minister or his Department have in the promotion of the enterprise zone in Coleraine?
Colum Eastwood: I thank the Minister for his statement and his answers thus far. What impact will his proposed new arrangements for learner drivers have on insurance costs for young drivers?
Colum Eastwood: I thank the Member for his intervention, and he makes a very good point. We are all saying that we believe very strongly in the institution of marriage. It is an institution that people are not exactly queuing round the block to get involved in or to stay committed to. These are people who want to be married, who want to do all —
Colum Eastwood: I thank the Minister for her answers thus far. She mentioned the £2 million for the Daisyfield development. When is that likely to be allocated, and when are we likely to see work on the ground?
Colum Eastwood: I thank the First Minister for his answers thus far. What engagement has there been with practitioners and experienced stakeholders prior to giving out funding under Delivering Social Change?
Colum Eastwood: I am very glad to have reached this stage of the Bill. I think that everyone in the Chamber is probably glad that we have finally got here. It has been a long process. However, I think that it has been a very useful process, and I would be very surprised if there were any issues left that we have not debated at great length either at Committee or here. I put on record my thanks to the...
Colum Eastwood: We had the good announcement last week of around 10 jobs for a local company. With regard to the opportunities at Fort George, what work is Invest Northern Ireland doing to attract investors to that site and to any other vacant sites in the city?
Colum Eastwood: 3. asked the Minister for Regional Development to outline the anticipated cost of developing the old Waterside station as an integrated transport hub. (AQO 5964/11-15)
Colum Eastwood: I thank the Minister for his statement and for the actions contained in it. I welcome the wide-ranging public inquiry that he mentioned. Has he done any work on how much that will cost?
Chris Lyttle: ...recording and faster payments are to farmers in Northern Ireland. He also talked about how important the rural development programme is to rural communities in general in Northern Ireland. Colum Eastwood said that we needed to see more positive engagement with Europe, that that is what people in Northern Ireland want to see and that that is what businesses in Northern Ireland want to...
Colum Eastwood: Given that Criminal Justice Inspection described the Legal Services Commission as being not fit for purpose, is the Minister confident that this new agency will be?
Colum Eastwood: I thank the Minister for his statement and welcome what he has said today. Does he agree that, although some councils have been very good at creating savings and sharing services, there is no good reason why all councils could not have done that and created more savings around the ICE scheme and things like that? Maybe some of the issues would not have been so stark if that had been done.
Colum Eastwood: For the purposes of the debate on this group, I intend to speak on amendment No 6 and Mr Agnew's amendments. Colleagues will deal with the other amendments. On amendment No 6, I do not disagree that issues such as how we structure the political governance of local councils should be decided by qualified majority. The Minister has already committed — in this House, I believe — to...
Colum Eastwood: Will the Member give way?
Colum Eastwood: 6. asked the Minister of the Environment to outline his position on hydraulic fracturing. (AQO 5908/11-15)
Colum Eastwood: I thank the Member for giving way. On Mr McCrea's point, far be it from me to speak for the Speaker, but I think that the Speaker said that Members are, of course, entitled to put down any amendment in the House and Members are then entitled to vote on it. That does not equate to meaning that this is the best place for that amendment. That is the difference between the Speaker and Mr...
Carál Ní Chuilín: ...tracks and adventure sports. It has provided a lot of detail about the facilities, but I could do a lot more, and Disability Sports NI has advocated that there is much more that we could do. As Colum Eastwood, the last Member to speak said, while we have a huge opportunity, which others mentioned, through RPA, we are still falling short. None of us wants that to happen on our watch....
Colum Eastwood: The Member is right: there is an event going on. That highlights the very fact that we need to talk about these issues. Perhaps these are the issues that we should get excited about rather than spending six hours talking about flags, as we did last week. [Interruption.]