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.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant of AQW 21296/22-27, to detail (i) actions that can be expected from the Outdoor Recreation Action Plan; and (ii) a timeline for when the review will be published.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact that any cut in benefits may have; and (ii) any assurances he has received from the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions that any new changes will avoid undue harm to those currently in receipt…
First Minister, page 33 of the ending violence against women and girls strategy mentions creating a technology challenge fund to address digital violence towards women and girls online. Will you detail today how or if the funding mentioned in the Programme for Government will contribute to that?
Housebuilding on Public Land That this Assembly recognises the critical role of social and affordable housing in reducing housing need, supporting communities and strengthening the economy; notes the Department for Communities’ commitment to deliver at least 33,000 social homes under the Housing Supply Strategy;…
To ask the Minister of Justice, pursuant to AQW 24026/22-27, to detail how the provision of the statistics requested is considered an operational matter.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on the steps taken to measure the demand for integrated education, as required by the Integrated Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 22720/22-27, to detail the difference in working hours in the contracts of a primary school principal and a teaching nursery school principal.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) any measures his Department is taking to address pollution; and (ii) the number of recorded unsatisfactory intermittent discharges of sewage in the Lower Bann in the last 12 months.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of prosecutions for the improper application of slurry in the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any action his Department is taking to ensure that all individuals entitled to compensation due to work relating to the A6 project receive timely compensation, recognising that some are now waiting in excess of five years.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 24173/22-27, to provide a comprehensive list of criteria used by the Education Authority for the selection of the schools, detailing (i) what made a school eligible; (ii) what ruled a school ineligible; and (iii) a detailed overview of how the process for selecting…
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 24173/22-27, to provide a full list of schools deemed to have met the requirements (i) existing temporary provisions established for more than four years with proven demand and delivery of high-quality specialist provision in a mainstream setting; (ii) major capital…
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on progress made in the last three years on implementing the Integrated Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 and fulfilling his Department’s duty to encourage, facilitate and support integrated education.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 19637/22-27, to detail any measures his Department is taking to address harm reduction, recognising that drugs deaths have increased nearly 50 per cent in the last decade.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any measures his Department is taking to protect and safeguard the access to harbours for the local fishing industry.
To ask the Minister of Health, following the March 2025 Northern Ireland Audit Office report Ambulance Handovers in Northern Ireland, to detail any assurances his Department can give that the proposed relocation of services away from Causeway Hospital will not further exacerbate delays and put patients at increased…
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 21574/22-27, and in response to research published by Ulster University entitled a Profile of Classroom Assistants in Northern Ireland, to detail any practical steps his Department is taking to evaluate current practices relating to classroom assistant support.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any research his Department has undertaken to measure trends in attainment between boys and girls in the education system since the Covid-19 pandemic, recognising that recent research from England shows a widening gap between boys and girls in Maths and Science.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any efforts his Department has been making in collaboration with the Department for Communities to ensure that Foras na Gaeilge may be in a position to continue the Scoil Spreagtha scheme into the 2025-26 academic year, recognising his Department's duty to support and…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any dispensations that are available for pensioners who need connected to the electricity grid, so as to ensure that everyone can avail of an electricity connection without paying exorbitant connection fees.
Minister, thank you for your statement. I welcome your commitment to tackling educational disadvantage in the North. On that matter, the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA) has published research on educational disadvantage faced by children who have parents with addiction in the home. Can you…
I thank some of the local football clubs in my constituency of East Derry. I will name just a few of them: the Heights Football Club; East-End Youth Football Club in Coleraine; and, of course, Portrush Football Club. Those clubs help hundreds of children to enjoy sport and get exercise, instil in them a sense of…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the criteria used for selecting the ten schools chosen for the Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools pilot scheme.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of school-aged children that have been de-registered from school for reasons other than leaving the state in the last five academic years.