Mr Colin McGrath: Assembly records

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.

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  1. Debate contribution: Accessibility: Constituency Offices

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    The Assembly Commission takes these matters seriously and engages with disability groups as part of its wider work, but issues relating to the provision of constituency services by Members are the responsibility of each individual Member, not the Assembly Commission. Properties leased as constituency offices should be…

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  2. Debate contribution: Accessibility: Constituency Offices

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. As Members will be aware, the Assembly Commission published the Assembly Members (Office and Staffing Costs and Allowances) Determination (Northern Ireland) 2025, which is referred to as the "2025 determination", on 7 February this year. The 2025 determination sought to extend the…

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  3. Debate contribution: Parliament Buildings: Accessibility

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member. The disability access audit should be completed and a report with the initial findings presented in May 2025. We will not know until we get the report what works are required. We will hopefully have an update for Members at that stage.

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  4. Debate contribution: Parliament Buildings: Accessibility

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for her question. I do not have the specific information on that. We can come back to the Member, but I suspect that that is, likewise, included in the audit. I expect that it is, but I am sure that we can write to give you clarity on that.

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  5. Debate contribution: Parliament Buildings: Accessibility

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. The initial findings will be presented following the audit, so we will hopefully have them soon. The audit will identify any areas in which improvements can be made in order to enhance accessibility for people with disabilities.

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  6. Debate contribution: Parliament Buildings: Accessibility

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    With your permission, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker, I will group questions 5, 12 and 15 together. I thank the Members for their questions. The Assembly Commission has engaged with the Department of Finance to carry out a multifaceted listed building survey for Parliament Buildings that will include a conservation…

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  7. Debate contribution: Enhanced Investment Zone: Update

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Thank you very much, Minister. Your previous answer feeds into what I was going to ask. That £150 million is not a small amount of money, but it is also not a very big amount of money. If we go through a full list of activities such as that, there is a risk that we may spread the money so thinly that it does not make…

    Not analysed

  8. Debate contribution: Craigavon Area Hospital: Redevelopment

    • Private Members' Business

    I welcome the debate and thank the Member who proposed the motion on the hospital in her constituency. It is important that we all look to the facilities in our areas to make sure that they can provide the best opportunities and best health outcomes for people and are able to serve the people. In this instance, the…

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  9. Debate contribution: Housebuilding on Public Land

    • Private Members' Business

    Thanks very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. Having had conversations with members of the press, I know that they might think that that bunker is used for Executive meetings, because they say that there is a lack of information and press conferences after Executive meetings and they are in the dark. Maybe the Executive would…

    Not flagged

  10. Debate contribution: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division

    • Private Members' Business

    The SDLP welcomes the opportunity to debate this important issue, and we commend the Alliance Party for bringing it to the House. It is timely, given the constraints on our public finances, that we look critically at the cost of division in our society and reflect on how, in 2025, the ambition to create a more shared…

    Not flagged

  11. Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I raise the matter because the issue of Treasury reserve funding will have an impact on PSNI resources. The issue of resources was mentioned in the Programme for Government consultation by the Chief Constable, who said that the resource for neighbourhood policing is shrinking. Will the Minister confirm whether she…

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  12. Debate contribution: Ambulance Handovers

    • Opposition Business

    Thank you very much, Principal Deputy Speaker. I am glad that we have had the opportunity to have this debate and that we have heard from all sides of the House on the issue. Perhaps the Health Minister expected me to raise it during Question Time last week, but we went down a different route, because it was better to…

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  13. Debate contribution: Ambulance Handovers

    • Opposition Business

    I am sure that Sinn Féin Members will not spend a long time reading an SDLP document, but it includes additional staff. That is the purpose of it. The premise is that the model cannot be introduced unless there are extra staff to deal with it, or you could use the cohorting method, which is a well-recognised method in…

    Not flagged

  14. Motion or amendment: Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division - Amendment 2

    • Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division”

    Tackling the Financial and Societal Impacts of Division - Amendment 2 Leave out all after ‘communities;’ and insert: ‘calls on the First Minister and deputy First Minister to introduce a statutory duty to cooperate for all Executive departments to reduce the cost of division, by improving collaboration between…

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