Speeches by Hanna.

“I think very similarly. We know that there are different rules if it is legislation or other types of debate. Sometimes there is a lot of space for the early speakers. I have had exactly that experience, many’s the time, of trying to compress a complex argument, when you might have known in advance that you would be sp…”

“When you say fixed voting time, do you mean the guillotine of the debate ending?”

“I do not think those are two fair proposals. Like Ellie, I would go for a hybrid. We do not have endless debate for almost anything else, so there would be no reason to protect it in this scenario either.”

“I’ll hold you to that.”

“I think there is a lot to commend that, and it is the case that you get slightly tweaked iterations of the same speech, back and forth. People perform for their clip rather than having that idealised form of debate. It is important to say that I think we have all had the experience where something is important enough t…”

“But I suppose—sorry.”

“We’re having a debate here.”

“It was great simply that you knew whether or not you were going to get in. Bear in mind that when covid happened, I had been an MP for two or three months; I was still learning the ropes. It meant that you would definitely prepare, and that was back when I was trying to speak on a number of things. I probably spoke on …”

“Look, it was different because it was just sitting in your back bedroom, speaking. It is just not the same as a debate. Like others, I enjoy and welcome interventions and all of that. It was not like for like, but as I say, it meant that there was a degree of assurance that you were going to get in on a debate. I find …”

“Robin had to remind me that there were call lists in the Assembly. Due to the nature of Northern Ireland politics. I was by CV an MLA for four and a half years, but I had nine months on the ball in the Chamber because of two big shutdowns, on either side. Yes, it is slightly more predictable. It is kind of a D’Hondt fo…”

“Thank you very much to all of you. William, in the Lough Neagh action plan, DAERA estimates that 62% of the phosphorus pollution comes from agricultural sources. Is that your understanding?”

“You would not dispute that intensification of farming over that period—I think they said since 2012, but over the last decade—has reversed some of the water quality improvements.”

“Other factors are at play, but is it fairly indisputable that that intensification without mitigations—and I am going to come on to some of those mitigations and the support that is needed—has contributed to a decline in water quality?”

“I am not trying to be blamey, because I want to talk about Farming with Nature and the supports that are and are not available. I believe that farmers, particularly family farms, are trying to achieve the same balance. I am trying to see where there is agreement that that intensification has been a contribution.”

“I have said this before. There is a lot of money being made, not necessarily by family farms in Northern Ireland, but there is a lot of profit in the chain linked to land use around the lough. There are close to hundreds of millions of pounds of profit being made from that intensification.”

“And many others beside. We are aware of that. I wanted to talk about the supports. I do not dispute that most farmers want to make this work. Are there adequate supports? I know there is a bit of a gap between the likes of the Farming with Nature programme and some of the group schemes that are coming to an end. Are yo…”

“Do you think there is adequate on-farm support and co-design with farmers in some of the available schemes?”

“What do you mean by the Environment Agency “being obstructive”?”

“Does the Secretary of State agree that one of the major deterrents to investment and growth in Northern Ireland is the absence, 20 months after the restoration of Stormont, of a published investment strategy from the Executive with any sort of a road map for investors or businesses on the infrastructure, roads and hous…”

“I thank the Secretary of State and his team for their work on this package, including the hon. Member for Putney (Fleur Anderson), who was so well regarded by everybody who came across her in Northern Ireland. I also thank the officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin for their work, because that partner…”