All of Mr Gerry Carroll’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 for her assessment of the recent statistics in the Use of Force by the Police in Northern Ireland 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024 report, which show that the use of spite and bite guards and attenuating energy projectiles increased from October 2023 to September 2024.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of applications for Discretionary Support were refused due to exhaustion of the allocated budget in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Justice to provide a breakdown, by local council area, of the 18,148 incidents where the PSNI had to use force between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail all occasions that Attenuating Energy Projectiles were used by the PSNI in 2024, including the rationale for each use.
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) to detail the number of occasions that Attenuating Energy Projectiles were used by the PSNI in situations of public disorder involving young people in 2024; and (ii) for her assessment of the use of Attenuating Energy Projectiles in situations of public disorder involving young…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of Discretionary Housing Payments awarded in each of the last five years, broken down by month.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the (i) allocated budget; and (ii) actual spend for Discretionary Housing Payments in each of the last five years.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Protection of Rights and Safety in Custodial Facilities”
Protection of Rights and Safety in Custodial Facilities - Amendment 4 Leave out all after ‘calls on the Minister of Justice’ and insert: ‘to commission independent, expert research on human rights and equality issues within the criminal justice system.’
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of court cases that have taken place between tenants and housing associations in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, in relation to the additional £19.5 million capital DEL allocated in October Monitoring to NI Water to address constraints in wastewater infrastructure, to detail what the £7 million Upper Falls Wastewater Treatment Works Stormwater Storage will be spent on.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether there is a process in place to determine the number of Housing Executive succession tenancy cases that (i) result in a court hearing; and (ii) result in the tenancy being lost by the appellant.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any role the security services have in the (i) administration; and (ii) determination of the Victims' Payment Scheme.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of applications for Legal Aid in relation to an applicant challenging the Housing Executive over refusal to grant a tenancy succession that have been declined in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 20131/22-27, for her assessment of whether current public procurement policy permits public bodies to procure goods and services from areas that are illegally occupied, in violation of international law.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs why his Department has not consulted the public on the remediation of Mobuoy illegal dump, given that officials first advised that this consultation would take place before Christmas 2023.
I thank the Member for giving way. The Minister has no longer any excuses for not introducing standardised RSE across the board. Teachers are under pressure — all education workers are — so does the Member agree that it would be worth looking at the amount of time that teachers spend on examinations and homework,…
If we want to end gender-based violence for good, we need to prevent it from happening in the first place and from the earliest possible stages. We need to change the cultural attitudes that allow gender-based violence to spread across society as well as in the home, and the best way in which to teach that is in the…
Change has been slow. That is all that I will say, because I have limited time. I send my solidarity to all women who have been impacted on by violence and threatening and abusive behaviour, including women in the Building who have spoken out in recent days such as the MP for Lagan Valley. We need to be careful about…