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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 qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether any assessment has been made of Northern Ireland’s reliance on residual waste exports, in light of data showing it accounts for over 16 per cent of the United Kingdom’s total.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the tonnage of residual waste exported from Northern Ireland, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any assessment that has made of the potential economic impacts of Northern Ireland’s reliance on residual waste exports.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any plans her Department has to address the under capacity in Northern Ireland’s waste management infrastructure.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether her Department has conducted any analysis of retail fuel margins, as global brent crude oil prices return to their pre-conflict baseline.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail whether her Department engaged with the Competition and Markets Authority regarding potential anti-competitive practices in the retail fuel market, including the persistence of high pump prices, despite falling wholesale costs.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the objectives of any pilot schemes in (a) Londonderry; and (b) Belfast, to tackle economic inactivity; and (ii) how their effectiveness will be evaluated before any regional rollout.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether any assessment has been carried out as to why Northern Ireland continues to have the highest economic inactivity rate in the UK.
I mark a truly remarkable milestone in my home town of Enniskillen: the 350th anniversary of Enniskillen Presbyterian Church, one of the oldest Presbyterian communities in Ireland, with roots stretching back to the 1640s and the arrival of the Scottish settlers in Fermanagh during the plantation of Ulster. So beloved…
Establishment of an Ad Hoc Committee to consider the School Uniforms (Trousers) Bill (NIA Bill 40/22-27) That, as provided for in Standing Order 53(1), this Assembly appoints an Ad Hoc Committee to consider the School Uniforms (Trousers) Bill and to submit a report to the Assembly by 7 October 2026. Composition: Sinn…
Thank you for the response, First Minister. Will you outline the further steps that you will take to address the cultural drivers of misogyny identified by the Church leaders in recent reviews to ensure greater accountability and coordination in tackling gender-based violence?
Ms D Armstrong asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in light of the recent joint statement from Christian Church leaders across Ireland, who have described an epidemic of violence against women and girls and expressed concern that Northern Ireland is now the most dangerous place in Europe for women,…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail how her Department is supporting the PSNI in deploying property marking initiatives on farms, in order to deter rural theft.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of fishing licences issued for Lough Erne, in each of the last five years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the total tonnage of fish caught in Lough Erne, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any assessment that has been made of existing (i) navigation infrastructure; (ii) moorings; and (iii) marina capacity, at Lough Erne, given that annual new registrations have more than doubled since 2000.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any capital investment that is planned for the Erne System over the next five years, beyond the Devenish Island West jetty upgrade and the Fermanagh and Omagh Visitor Experience Development Plan.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any (i) charging; and (ii) refuelling, infrastructure that currently exists, or is being planned for, on the Erne System, to support electric or alternative-fuel vessels.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any engagement Waterways Ireland has had with boat hire operators on the Erne System, to understand any commercial and regulatory pressures; and (ii) any support that is available to sustain and grow the sector.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail whether Waterways Ireland has undertaken any analysis into the decline in active boat hire operators on the Erne System, from 13 to 6 over the past 25 years, in light of the increase in recreational boat ownership.
Minister, as we move towards July and the further lowering of the VAT rate for food and hospitality in the Republic of Ireland, the hospitality sector is looking at changing its operating models to address what it sees as a situation that is almost perilous to the operation of its businesses. How will you monitor the…
I thank the Minister for his statement. I welcome, as colleagues from Fermanagh and South Tyrone have done, the imminent release of 15 new two- and three-bedroom houses on the Old Eglish Road. The size of those homes is important. Although rents are set at 20% below market rates, many households on low incomes still…