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Ms Cara Hunter: Assembly records
All of Ms Cara Hunter’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps his Department plans to take to ensure that Emergency Departments implement systems to prevent patients from missing their call due to not hearing their name being announced, including (i) consideration of visual display boards showing patient names or queue status;…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) whether his Department has carried out any assessment of whether short-term, uncertain funding for youth services undermines the community approach of the RAISE programme; and (ii) any steps he will take to ensure those services are not lost.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any measures in place to ensure that all schools have adequate library provision, including dedicated library spaces, trained librarians, and up-to-date reading resources; (ii) any steps his Department takes to monitor and evaluate the impact of library provision on…
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has made any assessment of the consistency of effectiveness of Boards of Governors across schools.
To ask the Minister of Education, in light of the increase in pupil suspensions since 2019-2020, to detail whether any assessment has been made of the underlying causes of this rise, including whether it reflects a deterioration in pupil behaviour, or the effectiveness of current disciplinary approaches.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) whether any assessment has been made of the number of patients unable to access timely health service dental treatment, including urgent care; and (ii) any steps he is taking to address any identified unmet need.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the surge capacity within the health service to respond to a potential cluster of meningitis B cases, including (i) ICU availability; (ii) staffing; and (iii) rapid diagnostic capability.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) whether any assessment has been made of the risk of youth clubs and centres closing after June 2026, due to funding uncertainty; and (ii) any immediate steps he plans to take to provide financial certainty to the sector.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any steps he is taking to ensure that nursery schools are recognised as providing statutory early education, rather than simply childcare, in the Executive’s draft childcare strategy; (ii) how he plans to protect quality teacher-led provision in statutory nursery schools,…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, given the absence of Executive agreement, (i) to detail any preparatory, legal and policy steps he has taken to advance the establishment of an Independent Environmental Protection Agency; and (ii) whether he has identified any further lawful…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of modular and mobile classrooms that were originally installed as a temporary solution, which are still in use, broken down by Education Authority area.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) how his Department is working with the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to improve sustainability across the school estate; (ii) any guidance, standards or frameworks provided to schools in relation to (a) energy efficiency measures; (b) renewable…
To ask the Minister of Education whether he has made any assessment of the Committee of Education panel on Effective School Leadership in Disadvantaged Schools on 18 March 2026, which raised concerns about the Department’s plan to remove modular assessment and suggested it was being conflated with teacher workload…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 42095/22-27, to detail (i) any technical measures adopted by her Department in the design and installation of LED street lighting to mitigate light pollution, including, but not limited to, (a) luminaire shielding; (b) tilt angles; (c) correlated colour…
I will inject some positivity into the Chamber this afternoon. Last night, many of us across Ireland felt immense and enormous pride watching Jessie Buckley step on to the world's biggest stage to accept an Oscar for best actress. For a young woman from Killarney to reach the pinnacle of international cinema is truly…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any funding allocated to adult autism services in the current financial year, in each Health and Social Care Trust; (ii) the amount of that funding that is directed towards (a) diagnostic services; (b)post-diagnostic support; and (c) ongoing care and support programmes; and…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any analysis his Department has conducted demonstrating that closing small rural schools will produce net savings, taking into account all additional costs, including pupil transport, staff redeployment, expansion of capacity in receiving schools, and disposal or maintenance…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the proportion of pupils recorded as newcomer pupils, in each post-primary school, in each year from 2014 to 2025, broken down by school type and Education Authority area.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has assessed the impact of current Board of Governors composition requirements on the representation of communities whose populations have grown in school catchment areas.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of artefacts held in Northern Ireland’s museums that originate from Native American tribes; and (ii) any museums that hold them.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any support services available to adults with autism, in each Health and Social Care Trust (HSCT); (ii) whether individuals who have received a private autism diagnosis are eligible to access those services; (iii) any process by which adults with a private diagnosis may…
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has taken any steps to ensure that post-primary pupils and teachers are trained in the safe, ethical, and responsible use of AI tools, including (i) guidance on academic integrity; (ii) guidance on data privacy; and (iii) guidance on bias awareness.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 41639/22-27, to detail when his Department expects the data required to measure the post-school outcomes indicators contained in the SEN Reform Agenda Outcomes Framework to be developed and published.