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Mr Brian Kingston: Assembly records
All of Mr Brian Kingston’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I thank the Minister for her statement. We all share in the huge disappointment about the withdrawal of services by the Criminal Bar Association and the impact that that is having on people who cannot otherwise afford legal representation. Further to her previous answer, what options are being considered as…
The Minister will be aware that early learning and childcare is a Programme for Government priority. The Education Minister announced a budget of £55 million for early learning and childcare in the current financial year, 2025-26. As indicated in annex C to the statement, the budget for next year, 2026-27, is again…
I have heard differing claims about what is paid to taxi drivers to transport children: some rates are exceptionally high, and others are more modest. Through the review that the Minister is pushing the EA to carry out, will he seek to ensure that rates are standardised as well as that they provide good value to…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any criteria used by her Department to determine which roads are part of the gritting network in icy weather.
Minister, do you commit to publishing all records that are kept by your Department in which the offer of resignation from the Police Ombudsman is mentioned?
The allocation and reallocation of over £290 million is to be welcomed and will relieve many pressures. You said, Minister, that £104·2 million had been allocated to pay award costs, and your statement also highlighted the fact that, across four Departments, up to £150 million is needed for pay awards. From what you…
Unfortunately, the introduction of the emergency measures speaks to a lack of capacity in the MOT testing system. Will the Minister ask her officials to check that Government websites give a consistent online message? When I tried in October to check my MOT status on GOV.UK, it told me that the MOT would expire in…
I thank the Minister for his statement progressing a new disability strategy. A disability forum has been long called for by the deaf and disabled community, and I welcome its inclusion in the statement. The Minister said that he is aiming for it to be in place in 12 months. Will he provide details of the recruitment…
As the deputy First Minister knows, Urban Villages funding has been allocated in North Belfast to the much-needed replacement of the Sunningdale community centre. There have been issues with securing planning permission. Will the deputy First Minister advise the House on her commitment to delivering that much-needed…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, in relation to the draft Climate Action Plan 2023-2027, for his assessment of whether livestock numbers should be reduced.
I thank the Minister for his answer. Given the widespread concern about the outbreak, will the Minister consider, as a belt-and-braces approach, restricting movements of animals from Europe?
Yesterday, my colleague Phillip Brett put a question for urgent oral answer to the First Minister regarding the clear contradictions in Sinn Féin's position on the damage caused to the portrait of a DUP Lord Mayor at Belfast City Hall during an Irish language event in October 2024. What resulted in that Question Time…
Mr Kingston asked the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether testing following the identification of bluetongue virus has commenced on the 20 farms in the temporary control zone, how long such testing is likely to take and when the results will be made known.
First Minister, do you believe that it was appropriate that, at the Executive Office Committee meeting that you attended on 23 October 2024, when Harry Harvey and I raised the subject of the damage to the former Lord Mayor's portrait, Carál Ní Chuilín, who is a Committee member, did not recuse herself, given that she…
Minister, given your public utterances on innocent victims and your party colleagues' adopting language such as "non-combatants" to describe victims of terrorism, will you take the opportunity today to repair trust with the innocent victims?
With the Budget providing just £18·8 million of additional revenue for Northern Ireland in this financial year, a significant shortfall remains. Minister, you said in your statement that: "Each Minister must strive to improve efficiency ... ensuring that every pound of funding delivers maximum value." What are you, as…
Dublin City Council was set to discuss this evening a proposal to rename Herzog Park in Rathgar in the latest demonstration of anti-Israel and antisemitic politics in the Irish Republic. The proposal was approved by a council committee last July, with only one councillor voting against, and it had been brought forward…
FlaggedReligion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice)Criteria met: Identity framing, Cultural grievance politics, Controversy escalation.
I will come on to what we can do here ourselves and how we can bring more efficiencies. Diane Forsythe, in proposing the DUP amendment, highlighted the importance of the Budget supporting the agreed Programme for Government and how, previously, with the 12-month Budgets, pressure to spend money within one financial…