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.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) how tree preservation orders are enforced; and (ii) how his Department oversees that trees are protected.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on progress towards developing a new Forestry Strategy to replace the 2006 strategy.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 32815/22-27, to detail what (i) safeguards; and (ii) regulatory checks, are in place to ensure what is constructed without planning permission matches the infrastructure which the Pollution Prevention and Control permit was approved for.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of firework licences granted for (i) private; (ii) organised; and (iii) commercial, firework displays for 2025, broken down by local council area.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether funding has been identified to cover the estimated £200 million cost of implementing the 2025–2026 Agenda for Change framework pay uplifts, as referenced in the Minister of Health's Ministerial Statement 28 May 2025.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail whether he intends to allocate additional in-year funding to the Department of Health to meet the costs of the 2025–2026 pay awards for nurses, doctors, and other health service staff.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail (i) the number of (a) open; (b) temporary; and (c) permanent, vacancies currently in their Department; and (ii) the number of these that their Department is actively recruiting for.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the number of (a) open; (b) temporary; and (c) permanent, vacancies currently in her Department; and (ii) the number of these that her Department is actively recruiting for.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the number of (a) open; (b) temporary; and (c) permanent, vacancies currently in his Department; and (ii) the number of these that his Department is actively recruiting for.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the number of (a) open; (b) temporary; and (c) permanent, vacancies currently in his Department; and (ii) the number of these that his Department is actively recruiting for.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) the number of (a) open; (b) temporary; and (c) permanent, vacancies currently in his Department; and (ii) the number of these that his Department is actively recruiting for.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of bales of stored waste opened as part of NI Environment Agency inspections at waste management sites, in each of the last five years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the process by which the NI Environment Agency inspectors check to determine if stored waste is (i) refuse-derived fuel; and (ii) solid-recovered fuel.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 31705/22-27, whether the red line drawing can be overlaid on a true to life satellite map of the area, such as a Google Earth image.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of referrals; (ii) first assessments; and (iii) admissions, to eating disorder services, in each of the last ten years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the current average waiting time for (i) assessment; and (ii) treatment, of eating disorders in each Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department holds data on the number of children and young people presenting with eating disorders (i) before; (ii) during; and (iii) after, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thank you very much, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Thank you, again, to the Members who tabled the motion and to colleagues across the Chamber for their contributions to what has been a constructive debate. We may not agree on all the details, but there is quite a lot that we agree on, and that, in this place, is…
Once again, we find ourselves in the deeply regrettable but, frankly, avoidable position in which our nurses, the backbone of our health service, are forced to consider strike action. The Royal College of Nursing has begun balloting its members on whether to take to the picket line not out of choice but out of sheer…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any assessment her Department has made of the impact on the proposed Ballynahinch Bypass of the factual position and legal position regarding (a) emission targets; (b) carbon budgets; and (c) the Climate Action Plan; (ii) when assessments were carried out, and (iii)…
Minister, while we all want to see this succeeding, because it is important work, just an hour ago, we heard from the Health Minister that he does not have enough money to fund the mental health strategy, and that is a major barrier to getting people into work. Under this strategy, what sort of cross-departmental work…
When a murderer was being held down in the street in my constituency, it took the police 28 minutes to respond, yet we can send officers over to London to help arrest people for wearing a T-shirt. Does the Justice Minister not accept that there is some lunacy in taking that approach that we, as political leaders, need…
Minister, in light of the recommendations from the Belfast Trust, you said that its reputation was in the gutter, and you requested that a further review take place. That further review concluded that the Belfast Trust's recommendations were sound and that its governance is acceptable. Who got it wrong: you or the…
— of the Executive; the Executive say that is the responsibility of the Health Minister and the Finance Minister; and nobody is paying our nurses. For openness and transparency, when will see the payment for our nurses?