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 for the Economy what steps he plans to take to assess and react to the impact of the Autumn Budget 2024 on the childcare sector in Northern Ireland.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the number of staff that are employed in their Department in roles related to (i) human resources; (ii) employee relations; (iii) staff development; and (iv) staff well-being, broken down by grade.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of staff that are employed in her Department in roles related to (i) human resources; (ii) employee relations; (iii) staff development; and (iv) staff well-being, broken down by grade.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of staff that are employed in her Department, outside of the Northern Ireland Civil Service Shared Service on HR, in roles related to (i) human resources; (ii) employee relations; (iii) staff development; and (iv) staff well-being, broken down by grade.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of staff that are employed in his Department in roles related to (i) human resources; (ii) employee relations; (iii) staff development; and (iv) staff well-being, broken down by grade.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the number of staff that are employed in his Department in roles related to (i) human resources; (ii) employee relations; (iii) staff development; and (iv) staff well-being, broken down by grade.
I thank my constituency colleague Andrew McMurray for securing the debate this evening. We know that becoming homeless can happen to anyone. Over 48,000 are now on the waiting list for social housing in Northern Ireland, with 8,452 presenting as homeless in the most recent reporting period, October 2023 to March 2024.…
The Democratic Unionist Party welcomes the creation of the new Standing Order, which will provide Assembly Members with a formal entitlement to a vote by proxy when they are on parental leave, have fostering responsibilities or tragically suffer from complications in pregnancy, including miscarriage, stillbirth or…
I thank the Minister for the statement. I especially welcome his commitment in the House to the continuation of maternity services at Daisy Hill Hospital. He acknowledged in his statement the importance of the staff. As he will be aware, staff have been subjected to a great deal of stress over the past few weeks with…
To ask the Minister of Finance, in relation to the Civil Service Inclusive Language Guide, (i) whether its development included consultation with (a) staff; (b) unions; and (c) stakeholders; and (ii) whether staff will be referred to a disciplinary process if they use terminology within the guide, such as asking…
To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on her Department’s engagement with the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on reviewing Energy Performance Certificates to improve the energy efficiency information provided to tenants, homeowners and other stakeholders.
To ask the Minister of Finance for her assessment of (i) the uptake and application of the Scoring Social Value policy approved by the Executive, which mandated that from June 2022 tenders must include a minimum of 10 per cent of the total award criteria to social value; (ii) the quantification of the value of social…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) to detail the number of Penalty Charge Notices that made up the £1,306,562 written-off in 2023-24 as claims waived or abandoned; and (ii), of this total, to detail the number of individuals that were issued these claims.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for his assessment of the adequacy of the process for the collection of Penalty Charge Notices issued, following the increase in write-offs from £1 million in 2022-23 to £1.3 million in 2023-24.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on his Department’s progress against targets in the current year on the commitment in the 2020-2030 Forests for the Future Programme by planting 600 hectares of new woodland.
To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on the progress of the class action case Public Sector Pensions – Injury to Feelings Claims, in which the Department of Finance is a name respondent in a class action affecting employers across the public sector and is managing claims on behalf of the Northern Ireland Civil…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of full time equivalent staff vacancies in the Department of Finance in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the number of Project Bank Accounts in existence where the Department of Finance is a trustee; and (ii) the number of these accounts that have been used in each of the last three financial years.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the total value of payments made to Board Members of the Department of Finance and all of its associated and consolidated bodies in (i) 2022-23; and (ii) 2023-24, broken down by body.
Twenty-four women have been murdered in Northern Ireland since 2020. Based on the information given in the previous question, that is 25 now, and five in the past six weeks. That is a huge escalation, and it is terrifying that Northern Ireland is one of the most dangerous places in Europe for women to live. Given…
The Budget sustainability plan is based on the plan to have a balanced Budget for 2024-25. Given the Minister's recent announcement of £769 million of overcommitment for the year, and the fact that we are still waiting to hear the outcome of the monitoring round, is she confident that the 2024-25 Budget can be…
To ask the Assembly Commission, pursuant to AQW 16450/22-27, to detail (i) the dates which Mr Caolán McGinley was employed as a member of constituency office staff by Mr Declan McAleer MLA; and (ii) whether the role was full time.