All of Mr Colin McGrath’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 to detail the amount spent on health estate backlog maintenance in (i) the current year to date; and (ii) each of the last five years, broken down by works undertaken.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the proportion of the £1.6 billion backlog maintenance requirement that the current £5.5 million December Monitoring bid would address; and (ii) any criteria will be used to prioritise works.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of (i) wards; (ii) theatres; (iii) diagnostic rooms; and (iv) clinical areas, closed or restricted in each of the last five years due to estate failure, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail a breakdown of the £251 million of high risk backlog maintenance, including the specific risks identified and the potential impact on patient and staff safety.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any statutory regulation currently not being met across the health and social care estate, given that almost 60 per cent of the estate is not fully compliant.
Emergency Care and Winter Pressures To ask the Minister of Health to detail the immediate actions being taken to stabilise emergency care and winter-pressure capacity across the health service.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the percentage of commissioned capacity breast clinics that are operating (i) regionally; and (ii) in each hospital.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of funding requests submitted to (i) his Department; (ii) the Strategic Planning and Performance Group; and (iii) the Public Health Agency, by GP Federations and GP Practices for (a) recruitment; and (b) training of (i) Advanced Nurse Practitioners; and (ii) General…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any data (i) his Department; (ii) the Strategic Planning and Performance Group; and (iii) the Public Health Agency, currently collect on (a) workforce demand for Advanced Nurse Practitioners; and (b) General Practice Nurses within general practice.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the amount of funding that has been provided to general practices to provide flu vaccinations, in each of the last five years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the level of independent sector capacity that is being used for health service breast cancer clinic waiting lists; (ii) whether there are plans to bring teams from outside Northern Ireland to run waiting list Initiative clinics; and (iii) how his Department is being assured…
To ask the Minister of Health, following his attendance at the Disabled People’s Parliament on 21 November 2025, to detail any plans he has to improve the lives of disabled people, including those with a learning disability.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the timetable for (i) analysing the findings of the Learning Disability Service Model consultation; (ii) publishing the findings; (iii) processing the final framework; (iv) securing the financial investment needed; and (v) implementing the plan.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Observer Status in the European Parliament”
Observer Status in the European Parliament - Amendment 1 At end insert: ‘and its support for the establishment of a European Commission office in Belfast.'
To ask the Minister of Health to detail how the Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Model of Care will support the delivery of the Northern Ireland Cancer Strategy 2022-2032.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any services which are operating on a non-recurrent funding basis, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the (i) proposed; and (ii) actual, level of funding allocated to the Grassroots Facilities Programme element of the Northern Ireland Football Fund.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the level of consultation carried out as part of the Northern Ireland Football Fund, to date, to identify the needs of grassroots football clubs.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any progress made in the planning and formulation of the Grassroots Facilities Programme element of the Northern Ireland Football Fund.
On that theme, given that a model that funds our hospices 100% would alleviate pressures in other parts of the healthcare system such as emergency departments, will you undertake to apply to the Department of Finance's transformation fund to get funding for that? If you were to do that for one year, the savings that…
We often say that how a society treats people at the end of life says everything about who we actually are. Today's motion asks us to confront that truth with honesty, compassion and unity of purpose. Across the Committee's work this year, through more than 350 written submissions, powerful evidence sessions and…
I thank the Member for his supplementary question. The disability access audit provided a comprehensive assessment of accessibility across Parliament Buildings in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act 1995. It encompasses all key areas, including approaches and entrances, internal circulation routes,…
I am not sure whether that is a consideration at the minute. However, without speaking out of turn — without the facts — I know that some new spaces have been provided in the upper car parks of late. I have seen those myself, but we can come back to you on the finer details of the question in a written answer.
With your permission, Deputy Speaker, I will group questions 5 and 12. I thank the Members for their questions. The Assembly Commission is committed to ensuring that Parliament Buildings is accessible to all. To that end, we have recently undertaken a Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) survey. That comprehensive…