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 Assembly Commission whether (i) Seán Mag Uidhir; and (ii) Caolán McGinley were employed by any MLA as constituency office staff in the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of (i) staffing; and (ii) vacant posts in maternity services in (a) Daisy Hill Hospital; and (b) Craigavon Area Hospital.
I have had a look at the well-being dashboard. It is good to see it online; people can see what it is starting to look like. What will it look like? What sort of indicators can we expect to see there?
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the steps she has taken to address the legal practitioner fraud and error reported in the Legal Services Agency Northern Ireland, which led to the Northern Ireland Audit Office qualification of its 2023-24 annual accounts.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the nature of the administrative write-offs reported in her Department's annual accounts as (i) £238,000 in 2023-24; and (ii) £797,000 in 2022-23.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the nature of the £128,000 loss described as fruitless payments in her Department's Annual Reports and Accounts 2023-24.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the direction given to withdraw medical staff from special schools in Northern Ireland; and (ii) the steps his Department is taking to support children with medical needs in special schools.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether she has considered transferring the legacy civil law responsibilities in her Department from before Justice was devolved to Northern Ireland to the Department of Justice.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for his assessment of the current environmental safety of the Aughrim River, Kilkeel.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) whether each local council area has a Local Development Plan in place; and (ii) to detail the dates for which the current plans cover.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for his assessment of why the cost of a provisional driving licence in Northern Ireland is higher than the rest of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
I thank the Member who secured the debate on an issue that is important to our area, South Down. It is good to see all the South Down MLAs in the Chamber. I welcome the opportunity to hear directly from the Minister to get clarity on the Northern Ireland Environment Agency's position on and consideration of waste…
I thank the Minister for that and welcome his commitment to reducing the TB outbreaks in Northern Ireland. Given the worrying bluetongue developments on a Welsh farm, can the Minister provide an update on Northern Ireland's preparations for that?
In the past year, prisoners in Northern Ireland have received £1,445,283 of tuck money: that is, pocket money for privileges or "sweetie money". To be clear, the Department of Justice, on top of providing meals and facilities, gives prisoners in Northern Ireland one and a half million pounds of pocket money for…
Ms Forsythe asked the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the cost of bovine TB to the Executive in the last financial year.
I thank the Opposition for highlighting children's mental health in the motion. Sitting with a family in tears over the lack of services available for a child who is facing a mental health crisis is, sadly, not unusual. There can be no doubt that children's social services in Northern Ireland face unprecedented…
The voluntary and community sector in Northern Ireland is delivering front-line health services to the public. It fills the gaps in need where public services, through the Department of Health and local trusts, do not reach. Without the sector, tens of thousands of people across Northern Ireland would have no mental…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any (i) completed surveys in the last three years; and (ii) planned surveys, of women on (a) perinatal mental health; and (b) maternal morbidity.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether the actions he intends to take forward to address child poverty require supporting measures from the Department of Education and the Department of Health.
To ask the Minister of Justice, pursuant to AQW 15207/22-27, to detail the amount of tuck money provided to prisoners in the 2023-24 financial year, broken down by the categories outlined in previous answer.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the (i) number; and (ii) value of public liability claims settled in 2022-23 and 2023-24 for each local council area, broken down by (a) vehicular damage; (b) personal injury; and (c) property damage.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of enforcement proceedings invoked against developers who failed in their responsibility to provide road bonds before commencement of work on site, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the average time taken by each of statutory consultees in his Department to respond to planning consultation queries to local councils in 2023-24, broken down by local council area.
I congratulate Kilkeel man Stanley Tomkins on winning the Northern Ireland Pride of Britain award on Friday night past. The Pride of Britain Awards have been honouring our nation's unsung heroes for the past 25 years, celebrating the achievements of truly remarkable people who make our world a better place. Stanley…