All of Ms Claire Sugden’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 for Communities to detail any proposals he intends to bring forward to raise energy-efficiency standards, in the private rented sector.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of women currently waiting more than 52 weeks for a first outpatient gynaecology appointment, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any additional capacity for gynaecology assessment and treatment that has been commissioned in the last 12 months, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any assessment that has been made of the impact of prolonged waiting times for gynaecology services on unplanned care, including repeat GP attendances and emergency presentations.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any routine clinical review arrangements that are in place for women who have been waiting more than 52 weeks, for a first outpatient gynaecology appointment.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any assessment made of the capacity of early learning and childcare providers to support children with special educational needs, particularly where settings do not have the financial resources to fund specialist training or additional staffing.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any consideration that has been given to allocating one-to-one special educational needs support on the basis of the child’s needs, rather than the setting attended, to support continuity of care across early years, childcare and school provision.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how the Draft Early Learning and Childcare Strategy will address situations where children who receive one-to-one support in school settings, do not receive equivalent support in early learning or childcare provisions.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any consideration given to enabling early learning and childcare providers to make referrals for special educational needs assessments, where concerns are identified.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any steps his Department plans to take to ensure that the expansion of wraparound childcare does not inadvertently undermine the sustainability of established after-school services.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how the Draft Early Learning and Childcare Strategy seeks to balance improving affordability for families, with ensuring providers are able to operate on a financially sustainable basis.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any specific measures, proposed within the Draft Early Learning and Childcare Strategy, to address recruitment and retention challenges within the early years workforce.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any assessment his Department has made of whether recent childcare subsidy uplifts have improved the financial viability of providers, as opposed to being absorbed by rising operating costs.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any assessment his Department has made of the impact of rising operational costs, including rates, energy and staffing, on the sustainability of early learning and childcare providers.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any assessment his Department has made of the availability of veterinary prescription medicines, since the new regulatory arrangements governing supply from Great Britain came into effect on 1 January 2026.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department has identified any impacts on animal welfare arising from changes to the supply arrangements for veterinary prescription medicines since 1 January 2026.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any engagement his Department has had with veterinary professionals in Northern Ireland in relation to the operation of the new regulatory arrangements for veterinary medicines since 1 January 2026.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department has made any assessment to changes in the price of veterinary prescription medicines, following the end of the transitional arrangements governing their supply from Great Britain on 31 December 2025.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department has identified any veterinary prescription medicines that are no longer supplied to Northern Ireland, following the end of the transitional arrangements on 31 December 2025.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether she intends to introduce legislative reform to the Private Streets (Northern Ireland) Order 1980, to strengthen (i) enforcement timelines; (ii) bond adequacy requirements; and (iii) protections for residents.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any information the Department makes available to residents living on unadopted private streets, regarding (i) bond status; (ii) enforcement action; and (iii) anticipated timescales for adoption.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether there is a maximum timeframe within which private streets must be brought to adoption standard, under the current legislative framework.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any procedures followed by her Department where, a developer bond for private streets, is no longer sufficient to meet the cost of completing the streets to an adoptable standard.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether developer bond values are (i) reviewed; (ii) recalculated; or (iii) index-linked over time, to reflect inflation and rising construction costs.