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Mr Gerry Carroll: Assembly records
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 to detail the combined expenditure during the 2025/26 financial year on all Band 8D, Director-level and Chief Operating Officer posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group (SPPG), including the percentage of the SPPG’s overall staffing budget this represented.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the total cumulative cost during the 2025/26 financial year for (i) Band 8D posts; (ii) Director-level posts; and (iii) the Chief Operating Officer post, within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group, including salary, employer pension contributions, National Insurance…
To ask the Minister of Health for a breakdown of each Director-level and Chief Operating Officer post within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group for the 2025/26 financial year, including (i) job title; (ii) salary band; (iii) substantive or temporary status; and (iv) total annual cost.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail changes in waiting lists, waiting times and financial deficits across health and social care services during the period in which expenditure on Band 8D posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group increased.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any assessment that has been made of whether the current number of Band 8D posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group represents value for money in light of trends in waiting lists, waiting times, service performance and financial pressures across health and…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the total increase in expenditure on Band 8D posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group since its establishment, both as a (i) cash increase; and (ii) percentage increase.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any benchmarking exercise has been undertaken comparing the number of Band 8D posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group against equivalent commissioning, planning or performance management organisations elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the ratio of Band 8D posts to total staff employed within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group for each financial year since its establishment.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the current job titles of all Band 8D posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group, broken down by (i) substantive; (ii) temporary; (iii) acting-up; and (iv) seconded.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of Band 8D posts that have been created within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group since its establishment, including the business case used to justify each post.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the cost of Band 8D posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group for each financial year since its establishment, including (i) salary; (ii) employer National Insurance contributions; (iii) employer pension contributions; and (iv) any other employment-related costs.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the total salary expenditure on Agenda for Change Band 8D posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group for each financial year since its establishment.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any plans he has to establish a centralized repository of approved, pre-vetted Artificial Intelligence productivity tools to ensure consistent, safe and equitable access across all Civil Service departments, avoiding a fragmented, ad-hoc software landscape.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of Agenda for Change Band 8D posts within the Strategic Planning and Performance Group on 1 April in each year since the organisation was established, broken down by (i) substantive posts; (ii) temporary posts; (iii) secondment posts; and (iv) acting-up appointments.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) any Artificial Intelligence and digital literacy training pathways currently available through the Centre for Applied Learning for Civil Service staff; and (ii) whether he will introduce a policy of protected time for civil servants to undertake this training during work…
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in light of the shift toward Artificial Intelligence in public administration, to detail any assessment her Department has made of the specific leadership skills required by senior public sector managers to effectively guide multidisciplinary, tech-driven transformation projects.
I want to speak briefly on the Bill. The Bill should always have been about victims and survivors. Sometimes, it was, and the voices of victims and survivors came through and were heard, but, quite often, it was not, especially when it came to certain amendments not being heard, selected or voted for. I commend all…
Yesterday morning, as others did, I stood alongside our resident doctors as they commenced a 24-hour period of industrial action. We often praise our healthcare workers in the House and more generally, saying things such as that they are invaluable and that we wish them well. However, when questions arise about…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to the Fabian Society’s Adopt, Innovate, Transform report, to detail any formal consultation his Department has undertaken with Civil Service staff and trade unions to co-create a clear, transparent vision for Artificial Intelligence integration in public…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any steps being taken to ensure that the deployment of Artificial Intelligence across the Northern Ireland Civil Service is focused on service transformation and public benefit, rather than treating technology purely as a mechanism for headcount reduction.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether his Department will consider establishing a Digital Transformation Reinvestment Framework, allowing Civil Service departments to retain and reinvest a proportion of the efficiency savings generated by Artificial Intelligence, rather than automatically returning those savings to…
To ask the Minister of Finance whether he will establish an agile barrier busting taskforce within the Civil Service to streamline procurement and security clearance protocols.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any mechanisms being considered to incentivise and reward Civil Service staff who successfully design and pilot Artificial Intelligence innovations that improve public service delivery or reduce administrative backlogs.