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Mrs Cathy Mason: Assembly records
All of Mrs Cathy Mason’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I, too, welcome the fact that this important legislation has reached its Second Stage. Like the Chair of the Committee, I thank the Committee for its hard work, and I thank the Committee Clerk, the Bill Office and the legal team for getting us to this point. It is really important, however, that we remember that the…
Just over a week ago, artists from across Ireland gathered in Dublin — fittingly, it was at the end of Bloomsday Week — for an event titled "The Arts in a New Ireland", which was organised by Sinn Féin's Commission on the Future of Ireland. It gave artists the opportunity to raise concerns about the challenges facing…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps his Department has taken with the Education Authority to secure appropriate on-site nursing provision at Knockevin Special School, to prevent children being redirected to other schools.
To ask the Minister of Health whether the lack of on-site nursing provision at Knockevin Special School has directly resulted in children being redirected to other schools.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any steps the Education Authority has taken to secure appropriate nursing provision at Knockevin Special School.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the rational for the Education Authority placing children in settings further from home, rather than ensuring appropriate nursing support is available at Knockevin Special School.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any reason why children with complex medical needs are being directed to alternative provision at greater expense and disruption when Knockevin Special School is their closest school.
I thank the Member for his questions. It is good to have clarity on them. The change is not about reducing any protections, weakening democracy or limiting free speech; rather, the repeal is about modernising our procedures so that they reflect the current standards regime and the system of accountability, which…
Minister, you will be aware that flood alleviation schemes are assessed on a cost-benefit ratio which we know can be prohibitive and can prevent schemes from progressing. As we know only too well from flooding in our constituencies, in Newry and Downpatrick, such analysis does not always reflect the wider…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) any steps taken to recover the £10,000 advance payment issued to the Ulster Scots Agency for the USA250 concert; and (ii) whether any portion of the £10,000 advance has been repaid to date.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) any communication between his Department and the Ulster Scots Agency regarding the viability of the USA250 concert; and (ii) when his Department first became aware that the USA250 concert would not proceed as planned.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any projected cost breakdown of the planned expenditure for the USA250 concert, had the event proceeded as originally proposed.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any amount of the £30,000 public funding package allocated for the USA250 concert now deemed irrecoverable.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal cases which involved disputes over additional support, including (i) speech and language therapy; (ii) occupational therapy; and (iii) behavioural support, for nursery aged children, since February 2024.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal cases involving allegations that the Education Authority failed to deliver provision specified in a nursery aged child’s Statement of Special Educational Needs. since February 2024.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal cases related to transport provision for nursery aged children with special educational needs, since February 2024.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the average time taken by the Education Authority to complete statutory assessments for nursery aged children, since February 2024; and (ii) the number of cases which exceeded the statutory timeframe.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal cases, relating specifically to nursery aged children, taken against the Education Authority since February 2024, broken down by cases (i) conceded by the Education Authority; (ii) upheld in favour of families;…
Does the Minister accept that his Bill targeting teachers is dead in the water, and that he will not get away with sanctioning teachers for taking part in what is lawful action?
First Minister, speaking in recent weeks about the Loughinisland massacre, in which six men were murdered while watching Ireland play Italy during the 1994 World Cup at the Heights Bar, former Police Ombudsman Dr Michael Maguire stated: "For all of the litigation and for all the criticism, there hasn’t been any…
As the World Cup once again captures the attention of millions across the globe, many people in South Down are remembering a very different World Cup. On 18 June 1994, Ireland celebrated a famous victory over Italy. Six innocent men were murdered in the Heights Bar in Loughinisland as they watched that match. Adrian…
Minister, unfortunately, the announcement is not such great news for South Down and its constituents. You talked about making some progress on achieving borrowing powers for the Housing Executive. Will you expand on that? Will the Housing Executive be able to use those powers to start building houses again?