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.
Minister, last week, we saw an unprecedented intervention from the business community in Northern Ireland on your employment rights Bill. In light of that, when did you last meet the business community to discuss its objections to the Bill?
To ask the Minister of Finance whether any assessment has been made of the need for a process to be put in place to control and restrict progression of private members' bills, with significant financial costs to the Block Grant, without Executive approval.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has issued any guidance to local authorities on appropriate levels of screen use in educational settings for primary school pupils.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the number of teachers who have left the profession, in each of the last five years; and (ii) the number who accessed early retirement on ill health, activating their pension schemes.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any processes in place to inform her Department of the number of road traffic collisions occurring at specific locations throughout Northern Ireland.
I thank the Minister for his comments. I am pleased to speak on the Bill. As Members have outlined, the Bill is somewhat unusual, and, following a range of somewhat smaller and routine legislation, it is the first quite substantial piece of legislation that has come before the Finance Committee in the time that I have…
Minister, the increasing cost of rents has a huge impact on family finances. I welcome the Minister's work on addressing that so far. What more can be done to ensure that we have more housing in Northern Ireland?
I thank the Minister for his update. Hardly a year goes past without a serious wildfire incident in the Mournes, and those are devastating. I want to ask the Minister about the response plan that he mentioned. Quite often, when wildfires start, we see them in the distance, and they do not appear to be that big, but…
I thank the Minister for giving the Committee advance sight of the Bill. I also thank his officials for their continual updates on the Bill's progress and for being available to the Committee. This is serious and important legislation, and it should be approached with that in mind. As we work through it, I hope that a…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of (i) complaints; and (ii) offences recorded, related to crossbows, in each of the last five years, broken down by constituency.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any plans to change maternity services provided in the (i) Daisy Hill Hospital; and (iI) Craigavon Area Hospital.
To ask the Minister of Finance for an update following his meetings last week and comments in the media regarding the status of negotiations with the UK Government on increasing the funding formula for Northern Ireland.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for their assessment of the need for each Department and arm's-length body to assess and provide the known and potential costs associated with net zero climate policies and funding streams within their remit to inform a whole of government response.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average ambulance waiting time, in each month of the last 24 months, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any plans he has to introduce legislation, similar to Jade’s Law, to automatically suspend parental responsibility where a parent is convicted of murdering or committing voluntary manslaughter of the other parent, in order to protect children from undue influence.
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 43316/22-27, to detail a breakdown of the information provided for each property disposed of in the period covered.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether there has been a central budgetary assessment of the known and potential costs associated with net zero climate policies and funding streams for each Department and arm's-length body to inform future financial planning.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the working relationship between her Department, Tourism NI and local councils, to ensure all public investment in tourism is collaborative and delivers the best outcomes.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any criteria applied by the Public Prosecution Service when determining which cases should progress through the courts during the current restrictions of the Criminal Bar strike.
To ask the Minister of Justice, pursuant to AQW 43314/22-27, whether these costs are recouped from prisoners via repayment plans or whether they represent a direct cost to her Department.