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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 Justice for an update on the areas that still require implementation under the Domestic Abuse and Civil Proceedings Act (Northern Ireland) 2021.
I rise to speak on the urgent need to invest in our community and voluntary (C&V) sector. If we do not invest in our community and voluntary sector, the truth is that we will lose not only the vital services that each of us know are critical to strengthening and supporting local people on the ground but the very…
"Person-centred", "cost-effectiveness" and "life-saving" are just some of the terms that local people and Extern staff have used to describe the community crisis intervention centre in Derry. I thank the signatories to the motion and emphasise my support, and that of my party, for urgent, equitable investment in…
The beginning of 2025 was marked by the launch of 'The Prevalence and Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences', groundbreaking research that found that almost one in five people in society here had experienced four or more adverse childhood experiences. Now, as we approach the end of the year, the Simon Community has…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any consideration he has given to a cross-departmental review with the Department of Justice and the Department of Education on the guidance and interagency protocols on child contact where domestic abuse is a known factor.
To ask the Minister of Health to provide an update on his Department’s work to ensure that all Health and Social Care Trust social workers receive mandatory and certified training in the identification of coercive control, trauma, and post-separation abuse as required under the Domestic Abuse and Civil Proceedings Act…
Thank you, Minister, for the update. As you are well aware, local people, organisations and groups are very keen to continue to engage with you and the Department. Do you have any timescales for when there may be further public engagement with local organisations and residents?
Ms Ferguson asked the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on the outcome of the recent public consultation on the remediation strategy for the Mobuoy site and welcomes his meeting with local representatives in the Guildhall in Derry many weeks ago.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail their assessment of the recent report from the Simon Community, Childhood Adversity and Homelessness in Northern Ireland: Breaking the Cycle, which shows that childhood adversity and trauma drive homelessness here, and which calls for a greater focus on, and investment in,…
I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. First, I acknowledge the core point that the Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice here made in November 2024: "“If there ever was a time for more cohesion and shared priorities it is now." We all know the pressures on our justice system, and the pressures on delivering…
I welcome the Minister's disability and work strategy and note that you will launch a disability strategy in the next few weeks. That is very welcome. Obviously, it is essential that the strategy receives the appropriate funding to support its implementation. Will you confirm what additional investment there will be…
To ask the Minister of Education to provide an update on (i) when the works at St Eugene's Primary School, Derry, will commence; and (ii) the estimated timescale for the completion of the works.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the number; and (ii) type, of options currently being considered by his Department, to progress the second Ardnashee School and College campus business case.
I thank my colleagues for tabling the motion on harm reduction initiatives and the need for rapid drug-testing schemes at festivals and concerts. No drugs are safe in our communities, yet, sadly, too many lives are lost due to drug and alcohol misuse. Harm reduction initiatives such as rapid drug testing can help…
I rise to speak on bowel cancer, something that is quite personal to me, as I lost my father in 2002 to bowel cancer two weeks after his diagnosis. Bowel cancer is treatable and curable, especially if diagnosed early. Nearly everyone survives bowel cancer if it is diagnosed at the earliest stage. Survival rates drop…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any (i) work; or (ii) discussions undertaken with the Education Authority in relation to identifying and addressing the need for new youth facilities.
What contact has the Minister had with other Departments — I think specifically about work by the Department of Education, our youth workers, his Department through community development and the Department of Justice — about increasing and improving diversionary activity in the hotspot troubled areas in our estates?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any consideration made to commissioning a dedicated multi-disciplinary team of surgeons for more complex care for patients with endometriosis.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on the proposals, currently being considered by her Department, to secure an acceptable level of protection to homes and businesses in the Eglinton area, Derry, from the various sources of flooding.