All of Mrs Deborah Erskine’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Why has engagement not taken place urgently on the traffic chaos in Belfast before now? We all knew that traffic chaos would come, so why has that taken until now?
Minister, we talked yesterday about the traffic chaos in Belfast. You answered my question on the strategic oversight group. It is meeting not daily but weekly. It does not include the Chamber of Commerce or the business community. Yesterday, there was "Work from home" messaging from the Department, and you were then…
I thank the Minister for his statement. I have so many questions that it is hard to pick which one to ask. First, however, I welcome the announcement about lung screening. Along with colleagues, I sponsored an event here at which Cathy Brokenshire really adequately made the case for the need for lung screening in…
The Minister will be glad to hear that I took the train into Belfast on Friday night, although I had to drive from Fermanagh in order to get the train. Will the Minister outline how many times the strategic oversight group on traffic issues has met? Is he minded to widen the group out beyond the PSNI, Translink and…
I welcome the Minister's statement. I notice that the Minister got Executive approval for collaboration on the strategy. The critical issues are the delivery of planning and waste-water capacity improvements. Therefore, does the Minister recognise that there is huge frustration among housing associations that cannot…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether he has considered involving (i) Retail NI; (ii) Hospitality Ulster; and (iii) the Belfast City Centre Night Czar in any planning or steering groups in relation to traffic issues in Belfast.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of groups he has engaged with in relation to traffic congestion in Belfast since taking office.
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on work carried out by his officials to commission a research exercise into future service provision for childhood and adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether he has reconsidered his position on plans to allow drivers, who passed their driving test from 1 January 1997, to tow a trailer with a maximum weight of 3,500kg without undergoing a separate test, similar to the rest of the United Kingdom.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) all Active Travel Schemes carried out in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency in 2024; and (ii) the amount spent on those schemes.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 12688/22-27, whether he has received further evidence from his officials about the possibility of introducing a bursary scheme, similar to the NHS Wales Bursary Scheme, to ensure that students studying healthcare-related degrees will return to work in Northern Ireland…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for an update on the work his Department is undertaking to scope out introducing a practitioner health service for doctors and dentists; and (ii) whether he is committed to establishing such a service to address Northern Ireland’s outlier status, as being important to support the…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the schools in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency that will benefit from his announcement on funding for (i) outdoor play equipment; and (ii) new desktop computers.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the amount his Department has spent on bovine TB compensation in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of pensioner households that are expected to receive the £100 fuel payment in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether his Department has any emergency funding avenues available that DfI Roads Division can draw upon to carry out emergency road repairs in the case of severe roads subsidence.
I thank the Minister for giving way. I appreciate and welcome that he will look at that again if new information comes to light. At this time, economic growth is very important for my constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone. Businesses will plan their operations and where they go based on where the transport routes…
I thank the Member for giving way. Does she agree that the review puts us in Fermanagh at a huge disadvantage? Other projects will have years to get feasibility studies and other things in place, but the review leaves Fermanagh behind again on all that preparatory work.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is important that any modern, forward-thinking society have infrastructure projects that will aid the betterment of its people, socially and economically. Setting our sights high for infrastructure capital investment should be at the forefront of all our minds. No matter how ambitious…
I thank the Minister for his statement today. He is delivering on the key needs of schools here in Northern Ireland. I have no doubt that, when the call goes out, he will be inundated with schools looking to apply. That points to my question about the criteria: will the projects need to be spade-ready through the…