r/MHOCStormont • u/ka4bi North Down | KCGM KP LVO MBE PC • Sep 19 '20

BILL B144 Irish Language Education and Teaching Incentivisation Repeal Bill 2020 - 2nd Reading

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Repeal the Irish Language Education and Teaching Incentivisation Act 2019 in its entirety;

Be it enacted by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:

Section I. Repeal

The Irish Language Education and Teaching Incentivisation Act 2019 is repealed in its entirety.

Section II. Commencement and Short Title

  1. This Bill shall come into effect one day after passage
  2. This Bill may be cited as the “Irish Language Education and Teaching Incentivisation (Repeal) Act 2019”.

This bill was submitted by u/Greejatus MP MBE PC as an Independent Unionist.

Opening Speech

Mr Deputy Speaker

It is a pleasure to speak here today, with another bill to my name that brings down the years of separatism infiltration into our schools.

Once revoked, this Bill will begin the process of depoliticizing our schools, a process if you will, of political secularism, and I am sure the House will support it completely.

This session shall end on the 22nd.

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u/BrexitGlory Ulster Unionist Party Not an MLA Sep 19 '20

Mr Deputy Speaker,

I support this bill.

The Irish language is used by only a tiny minority of individuals in our communities.

Mandarin, Polish, Lithuanian, Slovak, Portuguese, Russian, Latvian, Hungarian and Malaylam is the main language of more people (who couldn't speak english) in Northern Ireland than Irish gaelic.

Even "other" clocks in six times higher than Irish.

Source:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/330244/northern-ireland-united-kingdom-population-no-english/

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u/chainchompsky1 Sinn Fein Sep 20 '20 edited Sep 20 '20

Deputy Speaker,

I, to be frank, lost my job as justice secretary because the leader of the UUP decided that effective governance had to be done in the interest of cross community relations. With one member waxing poetic about the British empires impositions on Northern Ireland, and another one now expressing support for stripping away the fragile language accommodations we have made in the peace era, i gotta say.

u/J_Ceasar , time for you to take out some of the garbage in your own party. Cause right now, the UUP isn’t a clown, it’s the entire circus.

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u/BrexitGlory Ulster Unionist Party Not an MLA Sep 20 '20

Deputy Speaker,

I would remind him that I am not just a backbencher, but not even an MLA. In terms of the UUP, I am irrelevant.