Official Report (Hansard) Tuesday 19 March 2013 Volume 83, No 3 Session 2012-2013 Contents Matter of the Day Security: New Barnsley Police Station Mortar Bomb ........................................................................ 1 Executive Committee Business Budget Bill: Royal Assent………………………………………………………………………………….. 4 Assembly Business Public Petition: Strabane Campaign for Jobs……………………………………………………………. 5 Ministerial Statements Northern Ireland Prison Service Estate Strategy ............................................................................... 6 Transforming Your Care .................................................................................................................... 14 North/South Ministerial Council: Languages ..................................................................................... 25 Oral Answers to Questions Enterprise, Trade and Investment ..................................................................................................... 27 Regional Development ...................................................................................................................... 33 Finance and Personnel ...................................................................................................................... 38 Health, Social Services and Public Safety ........................................................................................ 44 Executive Committee Business Public Bodies (Abolition of British Shipbuilders) Order 2013: Assembly Consent Motion ................ 50 Public Bodies (Abolition of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Arbitration Tribunal) Order 2013: Assembly Consent Motion ....................................................................................................... 51 Private Members' Business Civil Service (Special Advisers) Bill: Consideration Stage ................................................................ 52 EU Regional Aid ................................................................................................................................ 103 Adjournment Post-primary Schools: 'Together Towards Tomorrow' ...................................................................... 104 Written Ministerial Statement Justice: Status of the Compensation Agency……………………………………………………………. 112 Suggested amendments or corrections will be considered by the Editor. 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Assembly Members Agnew, Steven (North Down) McAleer, Declan (West Tyrone) Allister, Jim (North Antrim) McCallister, John (South Down) Anderson, Sydney (Upper Bann) McCann, Fra (West Belfast) Attwood, Alex (West Belfast) McCann, Ms Jennifer (West Belfast) Beggs, Roy (East Antrim) McCarthy, Kieran (Strangford) Bell, Jonathan (Strangford) McCartney, Raymond (Foyle) Boylan, Cathal (Newry and Armagh) McCausland, Nelson (North Belfast) Boyle, Ms Michaela (West Tyrone) McClarty, David (East Londonderry) Bradley, Dominic (Newry and Armagh) McCorley, Ms Rosaleen (West Belfast) Bradley, Ms Paula (North Belfast) McCrea, Basil (Lagan Valley) Brady, Mickey (Newry and Armagh) McCrea, Ian (Mid Ulster) Brown, Ms Pam (South Antrim) McDevitt, Conall (South Belfast) Buchanan, Thomas (West Tyrone) McDonnell, Alasdair (South Belfast) Byrne, Joe (West Tyrone) McElduff, Barry (West Tyrone) Campbell, Gregory (East Londonderry) McGahan, Ms Bronwyn (Fermanagh and South Tyrone) Clarke, Trevor (South Antrim) McGimpsey, Michael (South Belfast) Cochrane, Mrs Judith (East Belfast) McGlone, Patsy (Mid Ulster) Copeland, Michael (East Belfast) McGuinness, Martin (Mid Ulster) Craig, Jonathan (Lagan Valley) McIlveen, David (North Antrim) Cree, Leslie (North Down) McIlveen, Miss Michelle (Strangford) Dallat, John (East Londonderry) McKay, Daithí (North Antrim) Dickson, Stewart (East Antrim) McKevitt, Mrs Karen (South Down) Dobson, Mrs Jo-Anne (Upper Bann) McLaughlin, Ms Maeve (Foyle) Douglas, Sammy (East Belfast) McLaughlin, Mitchel (South Antrim) Dunne, Gordon (North Down) McMullan, Oliver (East Antrim) Durkan, Mark (Foyle) McNarry, David (Strangford) Easton, Alex (North Down) McQuillan, Adrian (East Londonderry) Eastwood, Colum (Foyle) Maginness, Alban (North Belfast) Elliott, Tom (Fermanagh and South Tyrone) Maskey, Alex (South Belfast) Farry, Stephen (North Down) Molloy, Francie (Mid Ulster) Fearon, Ms Megan (Newry and Armagh) Morrow, The Lord (Fermanagh and South Tyrone) Flanagan, Phil (Fermanagh and South Tyrone) Moutray, Stephen (Upper Bann) Ford, David (South Antrim) Nesbitt, Mike (Strangford) Foster, Mrs Arlene (Fermanagh and South Tyrone) Newton, Robin (East Belfast) Frew, Paul (North Antrim) Ní Chuilín, Ms Carál (North Belfast) Gardiner, Samuel (Upper Bann) Ó hOisín, Cathal (East Londonderry) Girvan, Paul (South Antrim) O'Dowd, John (Upper Bann) Givan, Paul (Lagan Valley) O'Neill, Mrs Michelle (Mid Ulster) Hale, Mrs Brenda (Lagan Valley) Overend, Mrs Sandra (Mid Ulster) Hamilton, Simon (Strangford) Poots, Edwin (Lagan Valley) Hay, William (Speaker) Ramsey, Pat (Foyle) Hazzard, Chris (South Down) Ramsey, Ms Sue (West Belfast) Hilditch, David (East Antrim) Robinson, George (East Londonderry) Humphrey, William (North Belfast) Robinson, Peter (East Belfast) Hussey, Ross (West Tyrone) Rogers, Sean (South Down) Irwin, William (Newry and Armagh) Ross, Alastair (East Antrim) Kelly, Mrs Dolores (Upper Bann) Ruane, Ms Caitríona (South Down) Kelly, Gerry (North Belfast) Sheehan, Pat (West Belfast) Kennedy, Danny (Newry and Armagh) Spratt, Jimmy (South Belfast) Kinahan, Danny (South Antrim) Storey, Mervyn (North Antrim) Lo, Ms Anna (South Belfast) Swann, Robin (North Antrim) Lunn, Trevor (Lagan Valley) Weir, Peter (North Down) Lynch, Seán (Fermanagh and South Tyrone) Wells, Jim (South Down) Lyttle, Chris (East Belfast) Wilson, Sammy (East Antrim) Northern Ireland Assembly Tuesday 19 March 2013 The Assembly met at 10.30 am (Mr Speaker in the Chair). Members observed two minutes' silence. of this part of Ireland at the Good Friday Matter of the Day Agreement, and nobody will ever take that away from it. Security: New Barnsley Police Station Mortar Bomb I say in conclusion that, if there are those in our society, in any quarter, who feel that they have Mr Speaker: Mr Conall McDevitt has been something to say and disagree with the way given leave to make a statement on the mortar that those of us who are elected go about bomb found near New Barnsley police station representing them, they should come out of the that fulfils the criteria set out in Standing Order shadows and allow themselves to be 24. Other Members who wish to be called challenged, in private if necessary but in should rise in their place and continue to do so. dialogue. The one thing history teaches us is All Members who are called will have up to that there is no end possible through violence, three minutes in which to speak on the subject that it is futile, that it always fails and that the future of our island and of our little region — matter. this place we call "Northern Ireland" — is utterly dependent on dialogue, democracy and peace. Mr McDevitt: In opening, I extend my best wishes to the House on the St Patrick's festivities. Unfortunately, the weekend Mr Speaker: Members need to continue to rise festivities did not start well in Belfast. At 7.15 in their place if they want to be called. am on Friday, a vigilant police officer leaving duty at New Barnsley police station noticed an Mr Hussey: I too begin by praising the member unusual object in the proximity of the station. It of the Police Service of Northern Ireland who turned out to be a viable mortar bomb launching discovered this object. I pay tribute to the device. That device was intended to kill or Police Service of Northern Ireland and to our maim police officers or anyone else who might army technical officers, who risked their life by have found themselves subject to it, had the attempting to defuse the devices. We had a perpetrators succeeded in their intent. situation where people were intent on murdering either a police officer, a soldier or a An organisation calling itself Óglaigh na member of the public, and nobody has that hÉireann claimed responsibility for planting the right. device. I am always amazed when organisations called Óglaigh na hÉireann claim Mr McDevitt referred to the organisation. I things in Ireland because there is only one cannot pronounce that name, and I do not Óglaigh na hÉireann, and that is the defence intend to attempt to pronounce it. What they forces of the Irish state. They are the only are is terrorists. That is what their intention people who have the right to hold that name. was. They were there to terrorise the people of They are the only people with a mandate to west Belfast and further afield. In recent weeks protect the citizens of the Republic of Ireland in we have also had the attack on Londonderry. that name. They have a proud heritage as The people who do this have no mandate, but peacekeepers and as people who serve that does not worry them, because they are everyone in their state. continually attempting to undermine this House and this state. That is their intention. However, I suspect that everyone in the House rejects we must pay tribute to the bravery of those who those who placed that mortar bomb. The reject are prepared to serve in the Police Service of them because the PSNI was their target,