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.
I thank the Minister for his statement; it is welcome. My question is on the specifics of the waiting list reimbursement scheme. The Minister's announcement just over a month ago on the reinstatement of the cross-border scheme was so welcome, and I was inundated with queries, so, on the back of today's statement, I…
I thank the Minister for her statement. Minister, how were you assured about the accuracy and validity of the figures on the business value achieved in 2024, given that the most recently audited and published accounts were for 2022, with those for 2023 to be laid? Will you include detail on the report of £115 million…
I thank the Minister for her statement. Minister, Tourism Ireland's remit is to: "increase tourism to the island of Ireland and to support Northern Ireland to realise its tourism potential." What is the Minister's assessment of the way forward for Northern Ireland realising its tourism potential in the Mourne…
To ask the Minister for the Economy for her assessment of how much of the £4.06 billion student loan financial asset will change under the new valuation method for student loans in 2025-26.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the (i) status of; and (ii) options available for, the Belfast Region City Deal funding which was allocated to the Mournes Gondola project, now that the National Trust has confirmed they are denying a lease and therefore stopping the project in its current development form.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the (i) status of; and (ii) options available for, the Belfast Region City Deal monies which were allocated to the Mourne Gondola project, now that the National Trust has confirmed they are denying a lease and therefore stopping the project in its current development form.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 24458/22-27, to detail (i) when the Tourism NI (a) 2022-23; and (b) 2023-24 annual accounts will be published; and (ii) the reason for the delays.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for her assessment of the ramifications of Tourism NI paying out £6,021,760 of public funds through the Co-Operative Marketing Fund, which legal advice has confirmed that they did not have legislative authority to deliver between 2016-17 and 2023-24.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for her assessment of the potential economic and tourism benefits from the return of the Festival of Flight to Newcastle.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for her assessment of the increase in losses incurred by Invest NI from waived and written off items from £1,469,000 in 2022-23 to £2,668,000.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 25513/22-27, to detail the process and criteria by which loans are waived or written off by Invest NI to end up in the category of losses.
When strategies come into place, the allocation of budget is absolutely critical, and the domestic abuse strategy is a clear example of that. Will the Minister provide a bit more detail on the £300,000 for 14 projects, which are most welcome? What is her estimate of the value of rolling forward the scheme? How long…
The DUP does not support the devolution of additional fiscal powers to Northern Ireland at this time. We do not believe that the capacity exists in Departments or in the Northern Ireland Civil Service to manage further complex and fundamental elements of the tax system, such as income tax or VAT. We fully support the…
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the brutal, devastating and evil murder of William Heenan by the Provisional IRA in my constituency of South Down. On 3 May 1985 at 7.10 am, William Heenan went out to feed his small number of hens at his home near Castlewellan before work. As he approached the top yard, a…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people living with a diagnosis of (i) Alzheimer’s disease; and (ii) dementia in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average waiting time for a red flag breast cancer patient to be seen, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any action taken by Departments on the Pooling of Budgets, as detailed in guidance from his Department in April 2025.
I thank the Minister for his statement. Minister, you noted that you received a report in the Council on the implementation of the 2014-2020 Peace IV and INTERREG programmes. Have you any detail on the schemes that have closed? As a percentage of the total value of the claims that were made on those schemes, what was…
I welcome the ruling of the UK Supreme Court. It is disappointing, as others have said, that it took this case to go to court to confirm what we already know: the definition of a woman. Over the past year, I have been working on progressing a private Member's Bill on women and girls in sport, because I feel really…
As the chair of the all-party group (APG) on voluntary and community sector, I welcome the First Minister's recognition of the sector's value. As we move to public-sector transformation pieces, will there be an attempt to quantify some of the return on investment from some of our voluntary and community sector…
To ask the Minister of Health, given that voluntary and community organisations received £25.75 million in funding for 2025-26 from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to deliver programmes addressing economic activity programmes, equating to an eight per cent reduction on the previous year's funding, and given the…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail whether the inclusion of an incorrect weblink in letters in relation to rates bills for the upcoming financial year was as a result of a human typographical error on the letter or as a result of Land and Property Services system suffering a hack and this weblink being added…