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Mr Doug Beattie MC: Assembly records
All of Mr Doug Beattie MC’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail current teacher vacancy levels in (i) primary; and (ii) post-primary, schools, broken down by (a) subject area; and (b) Education Authority region.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to outline any action her Department is taking to ensure that foreign direct investment and economic development opportunities are distributed fairly across all local council areas and not concentrated in Belfast.
To ask the Minister of Education whether the Education and Training Inspectorate considers compliance with staff mobile phone policies as part of school inspections.
To ask the Minister of Education whether any consideration has been given to introducing a standardised policy across all schools regarding the use of personal mobile phones by teachers during lessons.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any safeguards in place to ensure that personal mobile phones carried by teachers are not used in a manner that could compromise (i) pupil welfare; (ii) safeguarding; or (iii) data protection requirements.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of complaints received by his Department, relating to the use of personal mobile phones by teachers during classroom lessons, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail whether (i) schools are required to have a policy governing the use of personal mobile phones by teaching staff during school hours; and (ii) his Department monitors compliance with guidance on the use of personal mobile phones by teachers whilst in the classroom.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline what his Department is doing to ensure the resilience of equine registration and horse passports in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline any assessment that has been made of whether years of reduced core funding has impacted the voluntary and community sector's ability to support vulnerable people.
Women’s Rights in Northern Ireland Prisons That this Assembly affirms its support for women’s rights; notes both the Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers that a woman is defined by sex and the Scottish Court ruling that accommodating male prisoners with female prisoners is…
Uncertain: weak signalGender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Standing up to Racism”
Standing up to Racism - Amendment 1 Leave out all after second ‘Northern Ireland’ and insert: ‘believes that the Executive must adopt a joined-up and coordinated approach to tackling racism, hate crime and community division; calls on the UK Government to accelerate the implementation and enforcement of the regulatory…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any engagement her Department has had with local councils to ensure greater consistency in planning decision timelines.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether her Department has explored the use of new (i) materials; and (ii) technologies, to extend road surface lifespan in high traffic areas.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether her Department has considered introducing a rural transport guarantee, to ensure a minimum level of public transport connectivity for isolated communities.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any steps her Department is taking to embed climate adaptation standards into all new infrastructure projects, commissioned from 2025 onwards.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any assessment that has been made of the resilience of Northern Ireland’s transport infrastructure to extreme weather events; and (ii) any measures that are being prioritised to mitigate potential disruption this winter.
Thank you for the intervention. As I said at the start, we can disagree agreeably. Some will definitely want the minimum age of criminal responsibility to be 14. Some will want the age to stay at 10. I think that 10 is too young, so I proposed that it be 12. I will not be the person who stands here and says that my…
You did, in fairness: that is exactly what you said. However, I also distinctly remember you saying — I am happy to check Hansard on this — that something that comes out of the Speaker's Office, having been agreed as an amendment to be debated in the Chamber, should not be viewed as not being competent. I will check…
Just a minute. Minister, I guess that I disagree with you, because I too did my work. I accept that I do not have the resources that you and your Department have, but I sat with the Public Prosecution Service and talked through this very thing, and it said that it was workable. I sat with the PSNI and talked through…
I thank the Minister. I am glad that she did not go down the road of saying that the amendment was not competent, having yesterday talked about never saying that what comes out of the Speaker's Office would be viewed as not competent or, indeed, that the drafters would do something that is not competent.
In fairness, Minister, what I am saying is that this is what I think. I think that, after all the screaming and shouting, few Members will change their minds and say, "Actually, 14's a bad idea; we're going to stick with 10". That is the point that I was trying to make, probably clumsily — I apologise. I wish that we…
Just one minute, if I may, Minister. Ten is too young. I have believed that for a long time, not just since the debate started. When I became an MLA, I thought that 10 was too young. I do not have a degree; I do not have a thesis. I am standing in this corner of the Chamber partly because of my principles on the…
It has been great. The amendments in group 6 are on complex, nuanced issues. I have seen really good knowledge and understanding of the matter across the Chamber, along with lived experience. Members had other jobs prior to coming here, and they have brought their experience with them. That is why it is such a robust…