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Mrs Ciara Ferguson: Assembly records
All of Mrs Ciara Ferguson’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 whether his Department has any plans to commission a community-based audiology service for adults, to improve access to assessment and treatment.
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on any actions his Department is taking to reduce audiology waiting times for adults with age-related hearing loss.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 38269/22-27, for an update on her Department's consideration to the revised business case, submitted by Translink for the provision of additional services on the North West rail corridor.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs when the consultation responses will be published to the draft Remediation Strategy for the Mobuoy Site.
Thank you, Minister, for that answer. You mentioned there having been 900 applicants for those administrative roles. Will you provide some further detail on the pilot?
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any policy scoping exercises currently being undertaken by her Department in relation to extending the existing Domestic Homicide Review model to include domestic abuse-related deaths by suicide.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any engagement underway between her Department and the Department of Health to address the continued lack of data collection on the number of suicides following domestic abuse, similar to the approach taken in England and Wales.
Basically, will the Minister go to the Education Authority and discuss with it what can be done to the canteen at St Brigid's, in particular, so that our kids do not need to go home —
Thank you for the update, Minister. As you are aware from your recent visit, St Brigid's College was ranked 12 out of 28 on the list. Currently, it awaits five specialist provision classrooms. They will not be delivered until January 2029. It has 14 locations that need minor accessibility work, which will not be…
To ask the Minister of Justice, pursuant to AQW 38267/22-27, whether a timeframe is available for when responses to her consultation on proposals to criminalise sexually explicit deepfake images will be publicly available.
Thank you, Minister. We are well aware of the empty homes strategy, which has been out of date since 2018. You indicated that you do not plan to refresh the strategy any time soon. Given the significant housing supply crisis that we face, do you not agree that it is time that we refreshed that strategy and put in…
This Friday, 20 February, marks World Day of Social Justice. It is not just a date in the calendar but a call for action, and it reminds us that poverty and inequality are not inevitable but problems that we can solve together, with the right focus and effort. It is the day on which we commit to delivering a society…
Ms Ferguson asked the Minister for Communities, in light of the fact that, according to the latest census, there are 52,300 vacant households, which are houses without usual residents, 6·4% of which are holiday homes and rental accommodation; that, on 31 December 2025, Land and Property Services (LPS) said that there…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any timeline his officials are working to for (i) approval of the Public Health Agency's business case and implementation plan to extend bowel cancer screening to those from the age of 50; and (ii) commencement of phased implementation.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any funding that has been ring-fenced in 2026 and beyond, to deliver the bowel cancer screening commitments in the Cancer Strategy for Northern Ireland 2022-32.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department has identified the additional diagnostic capacity required to support bowel cancer screening age expansion to those aged 50 to 74.
To ask the Minister of Education to outline any consideration his Department has given to bringing forward further school projects that were identified under the Major Capital Works Programme.
Do you agree that the PITSTOP pilot at Altnagelvin on pre-alerts by the NI Ambulance Service and rapid multidisciplinary assessment, which optimises the number of patients who can be treated through thrombectomy and reduces the time between arrival at Altnagelvin and transfer to the Royal Victoria Hospital, should be…
Thank you for that update, Minister. The benefits of the multidisciplinary Barnahus model in preventing the retraumatisation of children and delivering a justice model that upholds the best interests of a child are really clear. That was going to be my next question: when did you most recently discuss that with our…
Ms Ferguson asked the Minister of Justice, given that she had advised in November 2025 that officials were developing a final options paper for her consideration on the Barnahus model, whether she can confirm that she has received it and, if not, when it is likely to be received.
As we approach the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, it is clear that communities across the North still feel the effects of that disastrous decision to leave the EU. We can take the recent example of the British Government's promise to fully replace the lost EU funding. That was never going to happen. Now,…
Increased speeds along the Derry line would be welcomed by those who live along that route. Will the Minister provide an update on the Derry to Coleraine phase 3 project?