All of Ms Cheryl Brownlee’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, pursuant to AQW 49072/22-27, to detail (i) any further progress to date on the full implementation of Part 5 of the Mental Capacity (Northern Ireland) Act 2016; and (ii) any steps he will take to ensure provisions related to lasting powers of attorney for health matters are fully…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any representations they have made to the Home Office in relation to (i) addressing illegal immigration; and (ii) the impact of immigration on public services.
To ask the Minister of Health whether (i) any consideration has been given to autism diagnosis as a point at which previous decisions, interventions or life trajectories may be reviewed and, where appropriate, corrected; and (ii) post-diagnostic support is intended to facilitate such reassessment across public…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail, (i) any variance in fees for driving tests conducted at weekends and on bank holidays; (ii) any proportion of any additional charge attributable to premium staffing costs; and (iii) whether any assessment has been made on the appropriateness of applicants bearing extra…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he will reassess the eligibility criteria for the Shop Front Improvement Grant Scheme to allow planning application costs to be treated as eligible expenditure in conservation areas, given that planning permission is often required for shopfront improvements and can…
Today, I want to talk about something that should concern every single Member in the Chamber: the growing failure to provide very basic NHS dental care. I will start with what is happening in my constituency of East Antrim. This summer, BUPA, an NHS dental provider in Carrickfergus, had to write to more than 2,000…
No Confidence in the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs That this Assembly believes the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has lost the confidence of farmers, rural communities and the wider public; and calls on the Minister to resign.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any research or analysis, including findings that his Department has undertaken to identify the number and characteristics of autistic adults who are not represented in existing research, consultation exercises or support pathways because they do not align with the frameworks on…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any evidence that has been used by his Department to determine the purpose, objectives and expected outcomes of post-diagnostic support for autistic adults, including whether this evidence captures the experiences and needs of autistic adults who do not engage with peer-support,…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps he is taking to ensure that low-income households eligible for domestic energy-efficiency support are not prevented from proceeding with necessary insulation or heating improvements because they cannot afford (i) a required applicant contribution; (ii)…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether the income threshold for the proposed Warm Healthy Homes Fund will be reviewed annually to reflect changes in wages, inflation and the cost of living.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department has made any assessment of the number of working households experiencing fuel poverty who are currently ineligible for the Affordable Warmth Scheme because their income marginally exceeds the qualifying threshold.
This is a really successful announcement today. I will focus particularly on the roll-out of the full-time nursery provision. That has been welcomed by so many families, and, of course, I welcome the increase to 65%, with 100 more settings announced today. Minister, when do you believe that you will have a 100%…
To ask the Minister of Health, following the finding that only 7.9 per cent of patients urgently referred for suspected breast cancer were seen within 14 days during the quarter ending March 2026, to detail (i) any reasons why performance remains significantly below the 100 per cent target; (ii) the current average…
To ask the Minister of Health whether any consideration has been given to his Department maintaining a live, or regularly updated, list showing which dental practices are accepting new NHS patients.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) when the validated cancer waiting time figures for the 62 day referral-to-treatment target for the quarter ending March 2026 will be published; (ii) any reasons for the delay; and (iii) any assurance that can be given that his Department has sufficient and reliable…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether any assessment has been made of the decline in the proportion of cancer patients beginning treatment within 31 days of a decision to treat, from 90.1 per cent to 87.3 per cent in the quarter ending March 2026; and (ii) to detail any measures being taken to improve this.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any protections that are available to prevent a person from having to sell their principal residence during their lifetime to pay for residential or nursing home care, including whether any assessment has been made of the adequacy of those protections.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people have sold, or advised their Health and Social Care Trust that they intended to sell, their principal residence to meet care home fees, in each of the last five financial years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.