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 Health, pursuant to AQW 18028/22-27, to detail the number of women who resided within the Causeway Hospital locality that experienced birth before arrival at hospital, in each year between 2018 and 2023.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any Health and Social Care Trusts that have received legal advice that delegated healthcare tasks are not permitted to be delivered by personal assistants under Direct Payments legislation.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the circumstances when her Department can intervene to amend or cancel public sector contracts with other Departments.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of times she has met with her officials to discuss public sector contracts with Fujitsu since taking office in February 2024.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (i) why there is to be no prosecution for the major pollution incident on the Crumlin River in February 2023 which killed around 3,500 fish; and (ii) whether his Department has identified the cause of this pollution incident.
I thank the Member for giving way. Does he agree that, for many a year, there have been unionist Health Ministers who have been happy to have divergence between the pay of health workers here and the pay of health workers in Britain?
Third time lucky. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Just like yesterday, everything that I say is connected to the issue that we are discussing this evening. I found it almost — almost — humorous hearing some unionists talking about minority rights and being trampled on during the debate. You could not really make that up. How…
I thank the Member for giving way. He made a powerful point about the voice of young people being heard: should that also apply to people being able to vote at 16?
The Member for West Tyrone referred to his recollection of weather as a child. Although it was somewhat interesting, it should not be taken as serious policy direction. It not about having some bad weather here or there; most of the hottest summers on record have occurred in the past 15 or so years. There is a pattern…
Minister, you have said quite a lot about health inequalities in the past few days, which is welcome. Like others, I am very concerned about health inequalities in NHS dentistry. There is a class divide, in that, quite often, wealthier people are able to get access to dentistry while working-class people are literally…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the number of court cases for people in possession of a personal amount of cannabis in the last five years; and (ii) the average length of sentence.
To ask the Minister of Health, following his announcement that parents and carers are being urged to consider other options before bringing children to hospital for treatment over the winter period, to detail any extra resources his Department has provided to out-of-hours GP services.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) how he will determine the growth of multidisciplinary team roll-outs from 30 per cent to 50 per cent of the population; and (ii) whether deprivation will form a part of his consideration.
To ask the Minister of Health, following his statement to the Assembly on 10 December 2024, for a breakdown of how the £17 million announced for mental health will be spent.
To ask the Minister of Health, following his announcement that parents and carers are being urged to consider other options before bringing children to hospital for treatment over the winter period, how (i) his Department; and (ii) Health and Social Care Trusts have communicated other means for treatment.
I thank the chair of the caucus for tabling the motion, and I thank Nexus for 40 years of vital work, as Members said. We also have to mention that the Executive have repeatedly affirmed their commitment to tackle sexual and domestic abuse and to end violence against women, but we have to look at their track record…
Thank you, Minister, for your statement, even though there is nothing in it about reviewing industrial derating, which, in large part, is a handout to major corporations such as Caterpillar, Coca-Cola and Moy Park. I presume that you are happy to maintain that situation. How do you intend to reform the rates system to…
Minister, I agree that much of the solution to the crisis is public transport, although there is the problem, as the Member for Lagan Valley said, of buses being cancelled or being full to overflowing because there are not enough of them on the roads. Given that we have the lowest public transport spend per head of…
Minister, you mentioned the Private Tenancies Act and the limiting of rent increases. Are you taking any further action on private rent freeze and rent caps? What wrap-around services will be provided for the loan-to-acquire scheme? How secure are those tenancies, and how long will people be allowed to stay in that…
Some aspects of the budget are fine and are even required, but I want to raise other aspects. The first is MLAs' pay. That is a bone of contention among some in the House who believe that the £500 increase included in the budget is probably not enough and want to go further. I note that Scotland has been mentioned in…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of organisations that will avail of the £150,000 goodwill grant as part of the Housing Supply Strategy.