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The Minister was speaking as she launched the Economic Recovery Action Plan which sets out a road map to rebuilding the economy from the impact of the pandemic.
The Minister said, “As we move slowly back to normality, we must put all our efforts into restarting, repairing and rebuilding our economy.
“We must encourage businesses to innovate and lead and we must support workers to prepare for new opportunities.
“My Economic Recovery Action Plan is the blueprint to rebuild a stronger economy in Northern Ireland.
“We will focus on where we have the greatest opportunity to drive innovation and develop the skills and capability of our workforce to secure better jobs.”
The Christian festival of Easter will be gone under Stormont reforms of the licencing laws, church leaders have warned.
Presbyterian and Methodist leaders also warned of a tsunami of addiction issues in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis.
And they have urged MLAs to include legal protections for staff who do not want to have to work at Easter.
Methodist minister David Clements warned of a tsunami of harm coming from alcohol abuse. We do not know what the outcome will be in a year s time, post-Covid. Although much less alcohol has been consumed in restaurants, pubs and so on, my gut feeling is that the amount of alcohol consumed in homes has increased significantly. Who is to tell what health impact that will have in a year s time or five years time? he asked.
An agency funded by a DUP minister s department has denied using advertising to "specifically" promote the Northern Ireland protocol to foreign investors.
Coronavirus: One year since NI s first Covid-19 death
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Friday marks one year since the first death related to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland.
The patient was an elderly man who had an underlying medical condition and was being treated in a hospital in the greater Belfast area.
He was among the 77 people who had tested positive for the virus in the three weeks leading up to 19 March - the first positive case was reported on 27 February.
Since then, more than 2,100 people here have died with the virus and 115,511 have been infected, with many still feeling the effects.
Here, we take a look at the last 12 months of coronavirus in Northern Ireland.