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 whether he will bring forward legislation to ban the commercial sale of puppies and kittens under eight weeks old.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to outline any in-year monitoring bids their Department made for the Central Good Relations Fund, following a budget reduction last year.
To ask the Minister of Health, in light of his Written Ministerial Statement on Children with Disabilities – Short Breaks, to detail (i) where the £13 million funding will come from; (ii) whether this money is reallocated from his Department; and (iii) whether there will be any service reduction as a result of this.
To ask the Minister of Health whether those with lived experience and the organisations who support them will be involved in the co-design of respite service, in order to ensure that the services meet the needs of those families.
To ask the Minister of Health how his Department will hold Health and Social Care Trusts to account to deliver respite services for children with a learning disability.
To ask the Minister of Health, in light of his Written Ministerial Statement on Children with Disabilities – Short Breaks, (i) whether this money is going to result in more residential and respite places; and (ii) where these places will be.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for his assessment of the Invest Northern Ireland Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22, in light of the whistleblowing issues previously raised in the report of the Independent Review of Invest Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to his Written Ministerial Statement on Children with Disabilities – Short Breaks, to detail (i) where the funding for this has been taken from; (ii) any impact this will have; and (iii) whether this will result in a loss of service from another section of the health service.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any assessment that has been made of (i) the number of people suffering from arthritis; and (ii) the number of working days lost as a result of people being in pain with the condition.
I thank our constituency colleague Andy McMurray for bringing the Adjournment debate to the House. Regardless of whether people are in South Down or South Antrim, the issue of homelessness has relevance, and, sadly, it does not appear to be getting any easier. All of us here will have been contacted in our…
I will only say a few words. I was going to start by saying that moves like this welcome us into the 21st century. Then I checked, and the legislation for the rest of society was passed in 1999, so we are catching up with the last century by implementing the changes. All I will say is this: great, wonderful, but can…
I thank the Minister for his statement, which, fundamentally, references the Renfrew report. I would have thought that, in the interests of openness and transparency, that could have been circulated to Health Committee members before its being published on the website for the public today, not least because buried…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) the stock levels for (a) lobster; (b) brown crab; and (c) velvet crab in Strangford Lough; and (ii) the amount of landings for (a) lobster; (b) brown crab; and (c) velvet crab in Strangford Lough in each of the last ten years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) the number of fishing licences currently active for Strangford Lough; and (ii) when each of these licences was last used for fishing.
I thank the Minister for giving way. If you get a chance, will you speak to the point that I made earlier about there being capacity in the community and voluntary sector but it does not have the money, yet the statutory sector has the money but not the staffing resources? Is there a way in which that could be merged…
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I thank the proposer of the motion, which is timely and is on a matter concerning some of the most vulnerable people in our society. When considering the motion, the SDLP felt that it could be strengthened and enhanced through our amendment. In discussing the provision or lack of provision of…
The Executive Office strategy to end violence against women and girls cites RSE as an incredibly important tool to help reduce such violence. Given the weeks that are in it, we should try to depoliticise and not trivialise such matters. Minister, will you commit to ensuring that further education colleges and schools…