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.
I thank the Minister for her answer. The Minister will be acutely aware that our hospitality industry and, indeed, small businesses on the high street are suffering. One of the issues is high rates. Has the Minister looked at any ways in which we can combat that for those who are in the most dire of circumstances?
To ask the Minister of Health whether he plans to regulate the hourly rates of agency care staff employed by Health and Social Care Trusts in order to encourage recruitment to the sector.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure what consideration his Department has given to provide a cross pavement charging solution for homeowners without a driveway, who wish to be able to charge their electric vehicles at home.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any plans his Department has to increase the number of (i) normal; and (ii) rapid electric vehicle charge points in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of electric vehicle charge points in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency, broken down by town and village.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the measures being progressed to ensure there is sufficient ambulance cover in the Western Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of times when an ambulance was requested but was not available for attendance in the Western Health and Social Care Trust in the first quarter of 2024.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of requests for an ambulance in the Western Health and Social Care Trust in the first quarter of 2024.
I thank the Minister for giving way. I am wholly disappointed with that. It is a small pot of funding to have somebody who will oversee the autism strategies and policies that come out of the Department, and it should save money in the long run by looking at the services in the round. I am wholly disappointed by that…
I have noted that some of the deadline dates in the autism strategy were in March 2024. What has happened with the March 2024 deadlines? I have not seen any outcomes from the strategy, and we are past that deadline.
I thank the Member for giving way. That is a point that I made in my opening remarks about advocacy. We have advocates, and the independence of the reviewer was important. We spent a significant amount of time debating that in the Health Committee. The Member was a part of that, so I thank him for making that point.
I thank the Member for making that point. With regard to the budget position that we always hear about, we specifically made sure that there would not be any barriers in place in order to try to ensure that it was brought through, because it is a fundamental part of the legislation that needs to be implemented in…
I beg to move As the proposer of the motion, as well as vice chair of the all-party group (APG) on autism, I express my disappointment at the lack of progress being made on the implementation of the Autism (Amendment) Act 2022. So much work and energy went into ensuring that the legislation had the right content, work…
Bovine TB is destroying farms across Northern Ireland. I am calling on the AERA Minister to move at pace to bring forward a plan on how he is going to deal with that scourge. Farmers are under intense pressure, and bovine TB hits their farms through no fault of their own. The AERA Minister must meet the needs of…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the response times by Natural Environment Division to feedback requests from planners in relation to wind farm applications, in each of the last five years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (i) to detail the actions he is taking to improve response times by Natural Environment Division to feedback requests from planners in relation to wind farm applications; and (ii) whether additional staffing is being considered.