Blog entries posted during 2012
26/01/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Members of the Assembly’s Regional Development Committee got on their bikes at Gilnahirk Primary School, using all their negotiation skills to navigate a cycling proficiency challenge set up to help promote the ‘Bike It’ project. The project...
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25/01/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Do you have a budding Picasso in your midst? If the answer is yes then the Northern Ireland Assembly wants to hear from you. We have just launched an exciting new art competition aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils in primary schools across Northern...
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27/02/2012
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Assembly Round Up
The Northern Ireland Assembly Art Competition aimed at all Key Stage 2 pupils, which was launched earlier this year, is still taking entries. We are pleased to say that since the competition opened in January, Northern Ireland pupils have heeded o...
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04/04/2012
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Assembly Round Up
On Friday 30 March, local East Antrim MLAs travelled to Carrickfergus Town Hall to take part in an event organised to help local voluntary and community groups to work better with the Assembly and its Committees. As well as an overview of how the...
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22/02/2012
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Assembly Round Up
The Assembly’s Agriculture and Rural Development Committee met stakeholders from the rural community recently to hear their views on the Department’s Rural Development Programme (RDP). The RDP supports development, innovation and diversification ...
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06/04/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Back in January the Assembly called on local primary school pupils to get out their paints and brushes, show off their artistic talents and submit a piece of original art work for a new and exciting competition led by the Education Service. Young...
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24/04/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Members visited the Camphill Community, located in Glencraig North Down which provides accommodation as well as work and educational programmes to people with learning difficulties. Residents at the Camphill Community have the opportunity to...
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08/05/2012
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Assembly Round Up
The Assembly passed the Single Use Carrier Bags Act (Northern Ireland) in 2011 following a decision by the Northern Ireland Executive to introduce a charge for single use carrier bags in Northern Ireland. The Department for the Environment (DOE)...
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10/05/2012
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Assembly Round Up
This year’s Balmoral Show at Belfast’s Kings Hall is just around the corner and once again the Northern Ireland Assembly will be there to meet and engage with local people on all things agricultural! With the Agriculture and agri-food sector...
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03/05/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Pudsey the Bear paid a visit to Parliament Buildings recently to help launch the 5 th annual Family Fun Day which will take place on Bank Holiday Monday (4 June 2012). The Family Fun Day is an all-day event for parents and kids taking place on the...
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03/10/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Around 180 representatives from the voluntary and community sector came together in the Stormont Hotel on Tuesday 2 October to talk about how the sector could work together to deliver social change. Chairperson of the Assembly’s Social Development...
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26/03/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Interviews with Committee Chairs, press releases and tweets tell you all about what the Assembly is doing – what Bills the Committees are scrutinising; what’s being debated in the Chamber; how to get involved in an inquiry about a particular issue...
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30/03/2012
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Assembly Round Up
As Chairperson of the Assembly Committee for the Environment I am delighted to see, at last, a Northern Ireland Marine Bill being introduced to the Assembly. This has been a long time coming - leaving us sadly behind the rest of the UK in putting...
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02/07/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Parliament Buildings hosts its fair share of events, from the everyday plenary and Committee business, to the slightly more unusual. The Building has already hosted the Olympic Torch in recent weeks, but today, it was the turn of the Irish Sport...
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14/03/2012
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Assembly Round Up
The artistic talent of local primary school children is certainly not up for an Assembly debate. With over 2,000 entries received, the first ever Northern Ireland Assembly Art Competition has been a great success. The judging panel were overwhelme...
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07/03/2012
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Assembly Round Up
The Welfare Reform Bill and the effect it will have in Northern Ireland was top of the agenda at a special conference attended by the Assembly’s Committee for Social Development and hosted by NICVA and the Law Centre (NI) on Tuesday 6 March....
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07/03/2012
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Assembly Round Up
As a result of concerns with draft proposals in the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), the Assembly Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development met with local stakeholders to discuss the impact the ‘green’ proposals could have. The proposals aim...
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29/10/2012
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Assembly Round Up
The Northern Ireland Assembly's MLA football team donned their kits again this week when they took on a team from 'World United' to promote the Irish Football Association's Football against Racism Europe Campaign. World United players, who come fr...
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12/11/2012
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Assembly Round Up
More than 60 sixth form students from schools in East and West Belfast got together recently to quiz their local MLAs on the issues affecting them, their schools and their communities. The panel was hosted by seasoned BBC Political Correspondent...
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30/11/2012
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Assembly Round Up
Flag flying, economic recovery and the question of an Assembly opposition were all hot topics today when students from North and South Belfast quizzed their local MLAs on the issues that matter to them. The Let’s Talk style discussion was organise...
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