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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 qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any arrangements being considered to prevent disruption to schools participating in the Scoil Spreagtha scheme following the conclusion of its RAISE funded pilot in December 2026.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any process by which his Department has assessed the amount of prescribed content in the Curriculum 2028 framework against the stated objective of reducing curriculum overload, including any assessment of the teaching time required to deliver the specified knowledge and…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any process by which the recommended reading list for TransformED curriculum working groups was compiled, including any (i) criteria used to select publications and; (ii) any steps taken to ensure that members were exposed to a range of educational research and competing…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of people diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression; and (ii) the number of those patients who (a) were referred for specialist psychiatric assessment; (b) received treatment specifically for treatment-resistant depression; and (c) received esketamine…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people waiting for assessment or treatment through psychological therapy services, in each of the last five financial years, broken down by (i) Health and Social Care Trust; (ii) service or professional discipline, including clinical psychology, counselling and…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any evidence considered by his Department and Construction and Procurement Delivery to establish that InnerDrive was the only supplier capable of delivering the Online Teacher Professional Development Academy, including (i) any other providers considered; (ii) any specific…
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 49503/22-27, to detail the number of additional English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) places, delivered in 2025-26 through the £488,000 allocated to her Department for ESOL provision, broken down by further education college.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any mechanism that her Department can establish to measure the number and proportion of Northern Ireland graduates who return to the jurisdiction, after spending time studying or working elsewhere, given the limitations in existing graduate destination data.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps being taken with the Department of Education to establish a jointly-agreed protocol for the provision of appropriately qualified healthcare professionals in schools to support children with complex healthcare needs who require medical procedures, including tracheostomy…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any conflict-of-interest or potential conflict of interest declarations made by; (i) officials; (ii) advisers and; (iii) others involved in the procurement or approval of the InnerDrive Teacher Professional Development Academy, including any declarations relating to previous…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any safeguards available to his Department to ensure independent scrutiny of the environmental implications for Northern Ireland of the UK Government-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) climate-cooling programme, given issues…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 23211/22-27, whether any consideration will be given to meeting with researchers involved in the National Institute for Health and Care Research-supported COMP360 clinical trial for treatment.
To ask the Minister of Education pursuant to AQW 36913/22-27, to detail how an applicant who did not support his Department's agreed policy position on a knowledge-rich curriculum could satisfy the curriculum vision criterion for selection to a Subject Working Group.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any plans his Department has to introduce multi-year funding arrangements for arts organisations following the publication of its new arts policy.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any discussions held with the Minister for the Economy on the impact of proposed reductions in further education English for Speakers of Other Languages provision, during 2026-27, on the delivery of the Refugee Integration Strategy and its Outcomes Delivery…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any indicators and targets that will be established to measure progress in English language acquisition under the Refugee Integration Strategy, including (i) the baseline data; (ii) any targets for improvement; and (ii) the date by which each indicator will…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how the proposed Northern Ireland Curriculum 2028 will ensure that all pupils acquire essential knowledge of food science and nutrition, including the relationship between diet and long-term health, given the significant public health challenges associated with poor diet.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how the criteria for identifying essential knowledge within the proposed Northern Ireland Curriculum 2028 were applied to determine that the history, culture and experiences of Irish Travellers and Roma people should not form part of the common minimum entitlement.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether her Department will commission research into the (i) social; (ii) familial; and (ii) economic effects, of outward graduate migration from Northern Ireland, including the impact on the (a) local skills base; and (b) regional economic development, recognising that 22 per cent…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any evidence and revised entry thresholds which led CCEA to reconsider its initial decision not to include GCSE German in its qualifications withdrawal proposals, including the date on which the decision was changed.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any alternative GCSE German qualifications currently available to schools, including any criteria applied by his Department to determine whether those qualifications are appropriate for delivery under the Northern Ireland Curriculum.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any evidence considered in assessing the impact of CCEA's withdrawal of GCSE German on (i) the number and proportion of schools able to offer the qualification; (ii) the cost to schools of accessing alternative awarding organisations; and (iii) access to modern language…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail how her Department's Brain Gain strategy will address the findings of its commissioned research that Northern Ireland's economy cannot absorb its existing stock of graduates, including the proportion of graduates in employment that do not require a degree and the absence…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the anticipated timeline for assessing applications for residents’ parking zones, submitted during the 2026 application window, including the (i) date by which applicants will be notified of decisions; and (ii) anticipated timeframe for implementing approved schemes.