Conall McDevitt of the SDLP questioned the tactics of unionists in opposing the motion.
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South Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell and South Belfast MLA Conall McDevitt are running for the position.
Winding for the SDLP amendment, Conall McDevitt said "what is going on here is a political deal".
Conall McDevitt of the SDLP and the DUP's Alex Easton joined in criticising health services for mothers.
Recent threats to Martin McGuinness, Conall McDevitt and many other politicians demonstrate local politics remains a risky business.
Winding on the amendment the SDLP's Conall McDevitt appealed to members to debate the economy on merit rather than politics.
Speaking in the assembly on Monday, Mr Givan was responding to an urgent question asked by the SDLP's Conall McDevitt.
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Former Northern Ireland Under-21 midfielder Conall Murtagh, 23, has arrived from Wrexham.
Conall McDevitt of the SDLP wanted to know why there would not be a shared review in co-operation with the department of education.
The SDLP's Conall McDevitt said there was now a crisis which had arisen from the "system's inability to plan for its own future".
The SDLP's Conall McDevitt said everyone in Northern Ireland had to respect the job the police were doing, even if they sometimes did not agree with them.
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Conall McDevitt said the commemorations could "lay the foundations for a new Ireland or it can entrench the prejudice and ignorance which has grown up in the past century".
The SDLP's Conall McDevitt described this as a "terrible, terrible period in our history" and said the inquiry would bring some "sense of truth and justice" for individuals affected.
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Replying to a question from Conall McDevitt from the SDLP, Ms Ford was also critical of the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health, to whom she had made the disclosure.
Conall McDevitt waved a copy of the agreement around, arguing that true republicans would respect the verdict of the people and not alter the form of power-sharing they approved 14 years ago.
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In reply to a question from the SDLP's Conall McDevitt, the minister said the process of putting the existing policy of providing places for all children through the assembly would be "a distraction".
His launch was less well attended than that of the young pretender Conall McDevitt whilst some wondered whether the venue - the Linenhall library - was too historic for someone wanting to lead his party into the future.
The SDLP's Conall McDevitt added that he believed that the assembly had missed an opportunity to make it a legal requirement for statutory agencies to cooperate with community policing interventions, in the passing of the Justice Bill earlier in the year.
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