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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 11 Jun 2025
Spending Review 2025

"The SDLP’s priority continues to be funding Northern Ireland on the basis of need, and I urge the Government to take focused action, so that we can have sustainable public services and, hopefully, stable politics that will start to deliver for health and education and deal with the squeeze in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 04 Jun 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Anyone who saw the six-year-old girl fleeing the flaming shelter where her family were killed by an Israeli air strike will carry those horrific images with them forever. These are very dark days. Gaza is a stain on the soul of humanity, and it is a further shame that there …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 21 May 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"I regularly receive representations from businesses, some of our biggest employers, who are frustrated by the apprenticeship levy. They pay in like businesses in Britain, but cannot access the fund to reinvest in skills and fix our broken skills pipeline. Does the Secretary of State agree that there is merit …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 02 Apr 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q2.   Today, the Trump Administration will announce new tariffs that will hurt working people in the US and around the world. Does the Prime Minister agree that, at a time when big tech has grown fat by corrupting our politics and preying on young people, the wrong approach would be …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 12 Mar 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Lá Fhéile Pádraig shona daoibh agus Seachtain na Gaeilge daoibh. Deis lenár dteanga agus ár gcultúr a cheiliúradh ar fud an domhain. Happy St Patrick’s day, everybody, and happy Irish Language Week. It is an opportunity to use Irish language and celebrate Irish culture across the world.

It is an …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
European Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism

"I thank the right hon. Member for giving way; I know his time is precious. I want to associate myself with the remarks he made about Members of this House who were lost and about the moving visit we had last week with victims in Belfast and Fermanagh in relation …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Mar 2025
Employment Rights Bill

"I congratulate my hon. Friend and his colleagues on advancing the Bill—eight months into their mandate, we are at the remaining stages. In Northern Ireland, 13 months after restoration, the proposed NI “good jobs” Bill has not even been introduced, and doubt is growing as to whether it will pass …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"After all these years, people are bewildered that we are still talking about transitioning paramilitary groups, which have continued to recruit, to grip and to poison communities and current-day politics in Northern Ireland. Will the Minister commit to ensuring that we learn from all the things that have not gone …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 26 Feb 2025
Oral Answers to Questions

"Q15.   People in Northern Ireland are sick to the teeth of paramilitaries, the menace of sectarianism and keeping people stuck in the past. In the light of the announcement yesterday on transition, does the Prime Minister recognise that people will be highly sceptical of the process? There must be real …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Clonoe Inquest

"Throughout the troubles, both state and non-state actors committed unlawful killings that have created harm and scarred families across both our islands. Does the Secretary of State agree that his Government, working with the Northern Irish parties, must find and build bodies that honour the Stormont House obligations of articles …..."
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