All of Mr Doug Beattie MC’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 of Justice what role her officials have in dealing with suspected fraud in (i) her Department; (ii) arm's-length agencies funded by her Department.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of fraud cases in relation to Criminal Injuries Compensation claims that have been (i) reported; (ii) investigated; and (iii) resulted in prosecution, in the last ten years.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of the powers to control rents set out in Section 7 of the Private Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 2022, adding 5C to the 2006 Order, expired on 28 October 2023, whether he has plans to renew or bring forward new legislation to protect private renters from rent rises.
Loneliness Strategy (Revised Wording) That this Assembly notes the high prevalence of loneliness in Northern Ireland with almost one in five people feeling lonely at least some of the time and one in twenty identified as chronically lonely; further notes the severe social and economic impact of chronic loneliness,…
The Kingsmills massacre of 5 January 1976 was truly appalling, sectarian murder. To be lined up, shot in the back and felled to the ground, some wounded, only for somebody to go along to shoot them in the head is unimaginable. It came on the day after the appalling murder of the members of the Reavey and O'Dowd…
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline what impact the challenges faced by NI Water has on his Department’s ability to achieve its plans to build new social homes over the next five years.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on the work they have undertaken since taking up office to protect children from exploitation by paramilitary and criminal gangs.
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) how many HM (a) Prison; and (b) Probation Service staff, based in England, are working with terrorism-related offenders in Northern Ireland; (ii) to detail the annual cost of the service; and (ii) how many offenders they are responsible for.
To ask the Minister of Justice how many staff in the Northern Ireland Prison Service are currently on sick absence longer than three months, broken down by (i) grade; and (ii) position.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the annual turnover of staff in the Northern Ireland Prison Service; and (ii) the actions she is taking to retain prison officers.
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) to detail the (a) annual; and (b) continuous training requirements for prison officers; and (ii) what percentage of that training is being met within the required timeframe.
The answer is yes, of course, I have, as has everyone else. Everyone who has read it is coming up with a different interpretation: 90 MLAs with different interpretations. That does not answer my question. My question is this: which subject matter experts and businesses have you spoken to about what the long-term…
I will raise two points. First, an applicability motion is different from an EU regulation on geographical indicators for craft and industrial products. I said that the regulation needed to be scrutinised, not the applicability motion. Secondly, please list the firms that you have spoken to and asked about the effect…
Thank you. I knew that the answer would be very much to the point. Will the Commission look at bids to run events that could not get cross-community support? If we do not want this place to be a cold house for certain groups, we need to look at other means of doing that. I will give a clear example: some military…
Thank you, Minister. That was not a challenge; it certainly is not my party's position of intent. I spoke to the vice chancellors of Ulster University and Queen's University Belfast, who are really concerned about the number of student places in Northern Ireland. We haemorrhage an awful lot of students overseas. Does…
I think that the Member has got me slightly wrong. There are 90 MLAs here. Every one of those 90 MLAs can look at this and take a view on how it works, but where is the in-depth scrutiny? With any other law that would apply to Northern Ireland, we would have people giving evidence to Committees to make sure that we…
Thank you. The Member is absolutely right that this did not sneak up on us. The Ulster Unionist Party MLA Steve Aiken raised it on the Floor twice over two weeks. He also raised it with the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee and TEO. The Member is, therefore, absolutely right that this did not sneak up on…
This debate on EU regulations on geographical indications for craft and industrial products had a starting point, and that starting point was Brexit, which was always going to be destabilising. It created customs posts in our ports, and it has created trade barriers. From that Brexit, we got the Northern Ireland…
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) whether the new United Kingdom government definition of extremism will apply to the Northern Ireland justice system; (ii) for her assessment of the effect it will have in our separated prison regime; and (iii) for her assessment of how it will impact the work of the Probation Board.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he will introduce a scheme, similar to that in the South, for constituents who have been effected by the mica, pyrite, and sulphites defective bricks.