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Ms Diana Armstrong: Assembly records
All of Ms Diana Armstrong’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any assessment made of the impact of the Substance Misuse Court, introduced at Belfast Magistrates’ Court in 2018, on levels of drug-related offending.
To ask the Minister of Justice whether she has any plans to establish additional Substance Misuse Courts in other court divisions across Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of individuals that have received custodial sentences, following arrest for possession of cocaine with an estimated street value exceeding £5,000, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of illicit drug seizures that have been made by the Police Service of Northern Ireland and UK Border Force, involving drugs transported by land from the Republic of Ireland, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of illicit drug seizures at (i) City of Derry Airport; (ii) Belfast International Airport; (iii) George Best Belfast City Airport; (iv) Foyle Port; (v) Larne Port; and (vi) Belfast Port, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any steps she took to identify and mitigate potential conflicts of interest in relation to the recent appointments to the board of Invest NI of individuals with political involvement in the same political party as her.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any assessment that has made of the benefits to inward investment in Northern Ireland, arising from her attendance at a standalone event in Boston in 2025, including whether those benefits outweighed the cost to the public purse; and (ii) whether the host’s connection…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the number of occasions since taking office on which she was advised by her officials not to attend events and proceeded to attend regardless; and (ii) whether any such instances have had an impact on the day-to-day operation of her Department.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any external advice she received regarding her decision to attend a conference in Boston in 2025, in light of advice from her departmental officials against attending.
Minister, I thank you for your statement. Can you set out how you intend to rebuild confidence in the farming sector following the report and last year's data breach, given the growing perception among many farmers that the high standards rigorously enforced on them are not applied equally to AFBI?
I thank the Member for giving way. Does he agree that we need to pay tribute to the farming community, which has complied with and followed the regulations? The amount of regulation that farmers have to shoulder and how they have adapted the biosecurity measures on their premises are often overlooked. That needs to be…
Climate change is a reality that we must confront — that is undeniable — but our response must be practical, proportionate and honest about what is achievable. The Ulster Unionist Party recognises that the targets that were set in the previous mandate, which were voted on by all parties, set a very high bar. We now…
I welcome Julie to the Chamber: I look forward to working with you, and I send my best regards to Gary as he undergoes his recovery. In recent weeks, we have witnessed an exceptional surge of sporting success across Northern Ireland at local, national and international level. That success has been keenly felt in my…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any plans her Department has to to expand the electric vehicle charging infrastructure in Enniskillen and other key towns and villages, within Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any engagement her Department has had with (i) businesses; (ii) farms; and (iii) tourism operators, in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, regarding the transition to electric vehicles.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any targets her Department has set for increasing electric vehicle uptake, in Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any assessment she has made of the adequacy of electric vehicle charge point provision in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, given its rural nature and distances between settlements.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of public electric vehicle charge points that are currently available in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency.
I am happy to speak on the motion on behalf of the UUP. I do so having seen at first hand the tangible, positive impact that PEACE PLUS funding has delivered for communities across Northern Ireland. I welcome future funding beyond 2027 in the same vein. However, let me be clear: the success of PEACE PLUS is not the…
I thank the Minister for her response. Given the growing numbers of vacancies across the western division, can you agree that work is needed urgently to fill those roles to improve service provision and have a full workforce in place?
I am dealing with four cases of unadopted developments in Fermanagh. In one of those cases, the residents, at great personal cost, have put forward money to ensure that the bond is expanded and that more money is available there. That process is ongoing, and the lack of further movement is causing considerable…
I want to raise awareness of an appalling attack that happened on Easter Saturday night in Newtownbutler. Every Member of the House, regardless of tradition, background or party, should condemn it. A Church of Ireland Sunday school at Galloon parish was vandalised. Ugly, hateful, sectarian words were daubed on its…
We have seen the headlines over the past weeks, and, from speaking to people in my constituency, I know only too well how frustrated they are and how sick of empty words they are. People feel so frustrated and let down that they have taken to demonstrating and protesting against rising costs, and it is clear that they…
Ms D Armstrong asked the Minister for Infrastructure, who mentioned the recruitment campaign for industrial road workers, being mindful of the vacancies in the DFI Roads western division, why the Department is holding open days in Ballymena and not in each of the divisions, being conscious of the distances to be…