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Mr David Brooks: Assembly records
All of Mr David Brooks’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I will start by saying that I welcome the motion and thank the proposer for bringing it to the Floor. We are likely to prefer the motion over the amendment, but, regardless of that, there will be an awful lot of commonality around what we are speaking to. Everyone wants to push in the same direction. We all wish to…
On a point of order, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Will you make a ruling on whether the Member who has just spoken was in order when he directly accused a Member of being racist towards those with "black and brown faces"?
Today, I want to recognise and welcome the establishment of the Controlled Schools Unit within the Education Authority (EA). At its heart, that is about equality for our controlled schools, and we should be honest about that. Controlled schools educate almost half of all pupils in Northern Ireland and comprise the…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of trees that have been planted under the Forests for Our Future programme, in each of the last four years, broken down by constituency.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any programmes available to allow community groups, local councils or other organisations to apply for trees and other plants to improve the environment and biodiversity in their local communities.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on the number of (i) trees planted; (ii) plants planted; and (iii) acres of woodland created, as part of the Forests for Our Future programme.
I thank the Member for giving way. One of the sectors that are likely to grow fastest in the EU in the coming years is defence. Would she welcome some of that investment into the north-west to ensure that the UK and Northern Ireland can play their part in defending Europe, whether within it or from without?
Well, well, is it not interesting? Here we are again to debate matters relating to Brexit, the protocol and the Windsor framework. To my shock, the motion was tabled by the Alliance Party, a party that, when unionists bring concerns to the Floor or table motions, is usually found hand-wringing at the repetitiveness of…
The Minister and his departmental officials should be commended for this work. The fact that we see a vast increase in the number of referrals, as was reported this morning on the BBC, should be welcomed by every party in the Chamber. However, it is clear that the Department for Work and Pensions on the mainland has…
Minister, given the fact that America is a key tourism market, what is being done in relation to the America250 event to tell a key part of that story, that of Ulster-Scots and Scotch-Irish immigration, and, in doing so, to bring some of that Ulster-Scots diaspora back to Northern Ireland?
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the range of costs for individual claims for vehicle damage, caused directly or indirectly by road defects, from the least expensive to the most expensive claim, over the last four years, broken down by year.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) the number of temporary patches for potholes made, in each of the last three years; and (ii) the number of those repairs that have had to be repeated, before a more permanent fix was made.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) under which R-code the pothole on Ballygowan Road at Ryan Park was initially logged; and (ii) whether that initial categorisation was changed.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether her Department has any plans to review the speed limit on the Ballygowan Road, at and passing, Ryan Park, Belfast.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any steps her Department takes to assesses its ability to defend claims for vehicle damage arising from road defects, under Article 8 of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993; and (ii) her assessment of whether the prevalence of temporary pothole repairs and…
I do not dispute that there are inequalities that I would like to see changed. What I contest is that they are not caused by academic selection or the test. The small rooms and the other aspects that Mr Durkan talked about will exist throughout a child's education and will influence their education. It is those things…