All of Ms Diane Forsythe’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 Health for an update on the progress of the recruitment campaign for care workers, in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any plans in place for the winter 2026 flu vaccine rollout; and (ii) any steps being taken to ensure sufficient hospital bed capacity.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any plans her Department has to encourage tourism (i) across Northern Ireland; and (ii) within each local council area, in particular Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any plans her Department has to carry out grass cutting across each constituency, to ensure the safety of vehicle drivers, especially around sight lines.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any (i) amount of; and (ii) reason for, the variance in forecast for reinvestment and reform initiative interest costs, in the 2025-2026 financial year.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any (i) amount of; and (ii) reason for, the lower than forecast regional rates income for the 2025-2026 financial year.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any (i) amount of; and (ii) reason for, earmarked funding that must be returned to the Treasury for the 2025-2026 financial year.
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Today, on this sitting day, the Finance Minister issued a written ministerial statement at 12.03 pm, embargoed until 2.30 pm, on the 2025-26 provisional out-turn and available funding for 2026-27. That statement was embargoed until the end of listed questions for oral answer, with that…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any Fuel Card Services use across the Civil Service, including the cost in each of the past five years, broken down by Department.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of staff who have left the Civil Service, in each of the last five years, broken down by reason for leaving, including attrition and retirement.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the amount spent by (i) his Department; and (ii) the Civil Service, through the Collaborative Arrangement for the supply and delivery of vehicle batteries, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the amount spent by (i) his Department; and (ii) the Civil Service, for the Collaborative Supply and Delivery of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, in each of the last five years.
I agree with the First Minister that childcare is a key Programme for Government priority. On that note, will she consider approving the Department for Education's urgent procedure paper on the funding of early years education and childcare in order to avoid cuts being made to a project that has been an Executive…
I thank the Member for giving way. Does he accept that, if a Budget were to be set and signed up to by Ministers today, that would mean signing up to £1 billion of cuts up front as well as the £1 billion that he mentioned in his motion? Does he have an alternative proposal for a Budget that could be agreed today?
As we speak about the Budget once again, I make the point that everyone here accepts that there is not enough money. Northern Ireland is being asked to deliver first-class public services with second-class funding. The gap between what our hospitals, our schools and our front-line services need and what the Treasury…
Ms Forsythe asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, while acknowledging that the Minister of Education has delivered on a range of issues, noting that he has experienced significant delay in progressing a number of other issues, including the need for an Executive-led and -funded special educational needs…
Maternity Services at Daisy Hill Hospital To ask the Minister of Health to provide clarity on the short term and long term plans in place for provision of maternity services in Daisy Hill Hospital following their closure this weekend.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any (i) short term; and (ii) long term, plans to manage (a) staffing challenges; and (b) contingency plans, in maternity services in Daisy Hill Hospital.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the staffing for Daisy Hill maternity services, including (i) the number of doctors; (ii) the rank of the doctors; (iii) whether any assessment has been made of the impact of a junior doctors absence on unit closure; and (iv) whether there has been any difficulty in recruiting…