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 Education to detail the amount of funding that has been allocated to specifically support and promote the involvement of children with special educational needs in sport and athletics within (i) primary schools; and (ii) post-primary schools, in each of the last ten years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs how his Department is working with (i) landowners; (ii) farmers; and (iii) communities to incentivise and support reforestation on private land.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant of AQW 26848/22-27, for an update on Project Gigabit, including (i) the procurement process; (ii) the proposed timeline for roll-out; and (iii) the specific areas expected to benefit from full fibre broadband.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) how many Paralympic athletes have received funding; and (ii) the total funding awarded to each Paralympic athlete, in each of the last ten years.
I will speak, briefly, on the new Standing Order. I thank the Chair of the Committee for her work chairing the Committee. The SDLP welcomes the new Standing Order, which seeks to include an annual debate on the Assembly's legislative programme. The new Standing Order speaks to the importance of openness and…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any steps his Department is taking to increase the number of native speaker language assistants in the school system, in light of the 67 per cent decrease since 2012.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) how his Department ensures that children with special educational needs have equality of access to physical education and sport in school; and (ii) how compliance with inclusion and equality obligations is monitored and evaluated across schools.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of funding that has been allocated to specifically support and promote the involvement of children with special educational needs in sport and athletics, in each of the last ten years.
Thank you very much, Minister. To be clear, those words are directly from the parent of a child who has endured trauma in those settings, and that parent feels that restraint and seclusion were used unfairly towards their child. In the discussion that we are having, is it not fair to echo the words of those parents?
Children strapped to chairs. Children secluded from their peers, in closed rooms. Children left alone in windowless so-called darkrooms. Children held, face to the ground, by multiple adults. Children injured, distressed, voiceless. Children traumatised. As one parent remarked to me, article 4(1)(c) is just corporal…
Minister, thank you for your answer. It has been a number of months now since I secured an Adjournment debate on the issue, and many feel as though there has been little change. Is your Department dealing with the issue with a profound sense of urgency? Can you detail any conversations that you have had with my…
I speak today with a heavy heart, following the devastating murder of a woman in Donaghadee, Sarah Montgomery, who was just 27 years old and pregnant. It was an unspeakable act of violence that has robbed her children of their mother and shattered a family for ever. There is no grief more profound than that of…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the steps her Department is taking to address the gap in AccessNI procedures, whereby self-employed individuals cannot apply for enhanced checks, resulting in those individuals' ability to lawfully undertake roles involving regulated activity with children or vulnerable adults.
To ask the Minister of Justice to outline the PSNI’s (i) obligations; and (ii) protocols, regarding the referral and transportation of victims of sexual offences to the Rowan Sexual Assault Referral Centre; during (a) weekdays; and (b) weekends.
To ask the Minister of Health, following changes to Causeway Hospital general surgery, will additional resources will be given to Altnagelvin Area Hospital.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 28415/22-27, what reassurances she can provide that no goods exported from Northern Ireland are entering the West Bank.
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) whether she, or her Department, has been informed of any allegations that junior female officers in the PSNI are being pressured into making official complaints against other officers; and (ii) to detail any communications she has had with the Police Federation for Northern Ireland…
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 27193/22-27, to detail the number of occasions that funding has been (i) withheld; and (ii) withdrawn from organisations under the Musical Instruments Scheme, due to breaches involving sectarian behaviour, in the last ten years.
To ask the Minister of Health what immediate actions are being taken to strengthen regulation and oversight of private ambulance providers, particularly with respect to staff training and contract compliance, as recommended in the NI Audit Office report on Ambulance Handovers published in March 2025.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for an update on at-home cervical smear provision; and (ii) to detail how many kits have been provided to women, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he will consider creating weekend cervical smear clinics to accommodate women who cannot attend during the working week.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail what steps he is taking to ensure that all children with special educational needs (SEN) are provided with an appropriate place in a special school this September, recognising that the Independent Autism Reviewer has said that any attempt to enforce enrolment of SEN children…