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 First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on any evaluations completed on funding provided through the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Local Change Fund.
To ask the Minister of Health for a breakdown of the (i) number; and (ii) value of legal settlements, made by his Department and across all Health and Social Care Trusts, in each of the last three years, broken down by (a) legal settlements for staff complaints cases; (b) medical compensation; and (c) other.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the nature and reason for the Department of Finance writing off £460,000 of monies owed to them during 2024/25 as uncollectable, bringing the total to over £1 million written off in the last two financial years.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail why there is over £5 million owed to the Department of Finance at 31 March 2025 aged at over 361 days and increasing from the prior year position.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the properties and value held in the Accounts disclosed as Assets Held for Sale at 31 March 2025 totalling £24.8 million, classed as expected to be sold within the next 12 months.
To ask the Minister of Finance for his assessment of internal control in the Department of Finance following Internal Audit reporting four final limited opinion reports during 2024/25 in relation to (i) Grants Advisory; (ii) Travel and Subsistence; (iii) Inefficiency Compensation Payments; and (iv) McCloud…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any plans he has to review Land Registration fees, following a reported surplus of £3.5 million in the 2024-25 Departmental Accounts despite the Department’s objective to set fees to solely recover the full costs of services in relation to land registers, registry of deeds and…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the categories of special payments reported in the Department’s 2024-25 Annual Accounts totalling £494,000; and (ii) a breakdown of how many special payments by monetary value, in bands of £5000.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the categories of losses reported in the Losses Statement in the Department’s 2024-25 Annual Accounts totalling £525,000; and (ii) a breakdown of the losses by monetary value, in bands of £5,000.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the current value of Donated Assets held on the Department’s Asset register and disclosed in the 2024-25 Departmental Accounts.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail which services are operating fluidly across the Southern and South Eastern Health and Social Care Trusts' boundary.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the potential to increase the use of Financial Transaction Capital within the work of his Department.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail his assessment of the compliance with summer recess deadlines for financial reporting across the public sector.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail his assessment of where there is potential to increase use of Financial Transaction Capital in the public sector.
Sure. We recognise that there is a need for the Bill, not least to rectify a number of anomalies relating to the absence and location of certain powers that are vital to Departments' decision-making and the delivery of support for public services. There are some 16 provisions in the Bill, with three that relate to the…
Thank you, Minister. I welcome your commitment. I have been a bit frustrated with our local council, which has repeatedly diminished tourism in the Mourne Mountains and the Mournes area and has removed the name of the area from its tourism branding. The £30 million allocation through the Belfast region city deal was…
I thank the Minister for her answer. Much is said about regional balance for the north-west, but, in representing South Down, I am concerned that the south-east does not feature so highly on the agenda. I am keen to make sure that the money is drawn down and drawn down fast and that it hits the rural communities. Does…
We welcome the Bill to underpin the Fiscal Council's work on a statutory basis. The DUP has been a consistent voice when it comes to the need to transform Northern Ireland's public finances. In particular, we continue to lead calls for a fairer fiscal framework underpinned by Treasury funding that meets the objective…
Ms Forsythe asked the Minister for the Economy, given that Northern Ireland tourism is an important part of her remit in the Department for the Economy, whether she recognises that the Mourne Mountains are one of the biggest tourist attractions in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail his assessment of the three breaches of the Code of Practice related to NISRA statistics reported to the Office for Statistics Regulation in 2024-25.