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.
The First Minister has said that the public want to see parties working together. I believe that, in a speech at the weekend, she also said that she would leave no stone unturned in the delivery of the A5. I presume that that applies to other infrastructure projects. Does she agree that, in order to create that…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of patients who have had ADHD medication prescribing withdrawn by GP practices despite being stabilised under a shared care arrangement with a consultant psychiatrist, in the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any assessment has been made of GP practices withdrawing prescribing from patients who have been stable on medication for a number of years under a shared care arrangement with ongoing specialist oversight.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of GP practices (i) which participate in shared care prescribing arrangements for adult ADHD medication; and (i) that have ceased or declined to participate in such arrangements, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Health whether GP practices are permitted to withdraw from existing shared care prescribing arrangements for adult ADHD medication on a non-clinical or policy basis.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department holds any data on variation between GP practices or Health and Social Care Trusts in participation in shared care prescribing arrangements for adult ADHD.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Tackling Antisocial Scrambler and e-Scooter Use”
Tackling Antisocial Scrambler and e-Scooter Use - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘illegal scrambler use;’ and insert: ‘calls on the Minister of Justice to provide additional resources for drone teams and drone equipped officers and to introduce legislative changes to emulate Clause 8 of the Crime and Policing Bill,…
To ask the Minister of Justice, pursuant to AQW 43163/22-27, to detail (i) the total number of recorded crimes in Northern Ireland, in each of the last three years, which were flagged as having a domestic abuse motivation, including a breakdown by offence type, and (ii) how many of these resulted in (a) prosecution;…
Will the Member agree that, from the Committee's perspective, quite often, we have seen a willingness from Education officials to engage? My perception and that of the Committee is that there is more reticence on the Health side. That is not an attack on the Health Minister. That is to say that Health, with its…
Does the Member agree that some of the challenges that he outlined in respect of the Irish-medium sector estate are the same challenges that we see in the SEN sector, in that we need more special schools, and we need more sites? A big part of the problem is that the Department of Education is not resourced to the…
I thank the Member for giving way. He said that he listened intently to the debate. If he had listened intently to my contribution, he would understand that it was about one of the principles that I have argued for a number of times. It was not a derogatory slur on those who receive welfare but simply about the…
The principle of asking which Department pays for what and responsibility being in the right place matters. From our point of view, it is not about pushing that around with other parties. It sits partly with Westminster and partly with the Department for Communities, which is led by our Minister. The principle is that…
The Member raised the point that free school meals contribute to a pupil's ability to learn. That is absolutely right, and that is why we give free school meals, but that context is not applicable to what the Bill will bring forward, which is to tackle holiday hunger.
Does the Member agree that there is clearly an argument for free school meals as an educational intervention? We know that children study better in school when they are well fed. However, outwith their educational experience, it is a welfare issue, rather than an educational one.
I thank the Chair of the Education Committee for giving way. Surely it is not just about what we want to see numerous Departments doing but about whether Education is the right Department to make the right intervention and whether, as I outlined in my speech, what I feel is essentially a welfare payment should come…
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I listened to Danny's contribution and I recognise, as we all will, that it is a sensitive issue. Chronic poverty and poverty involving families who find themselves in short-term difficulty due to difficult circumstances arising and the resulting financial struggles are…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the rationale as to why nursing support will not be provided to summer schemes for children with special educational needs in summer 2026.