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 First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to the comments by the deputy First Minister during Question Time on 7 October 2024 stating Israel's right to defend herself, whether this is agreed Executive Office policy.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, given the persistent and widespread nature of odour complaints surrounding the Natural World Products site, whether an assessment has been made on a risk to public health.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any consultations carried out with environmental organisations to ensure the protection of wildlife and biodiversity on the Natural World Products site.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether he will ensure that his Department's measured active travel spend in the 2024-25 financial year (i) is spent solely on active travel; and (ii) will comply with all necessary auditing processes.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether he will ensure that the active travel spend required by the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 will not be spent on road resurfacing projects.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of children that attended primary education through English medium education due to no space being available in Irish medium primary education in the last seven years.
To ask the Minister of Education whether there is sufficient capacity for children currently in naíonra to move into Irish medium primary education in September 2025.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure how he will ensure that his Department’s active travel spend is in keeping with the intent of the active travel clause in the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the number of appeals received for the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme that were successful.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the number of applications received for the Troubles Permanent Disablement Payment Scheme that were unsuccessful.
To ask the Minister of Health how many people in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust area are paying for the delivery of prescriptions from pharmacies.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department have tested levels of bioaerosols omitted from the Natural World Products site.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department has consulted with medical professionals to ensure any odours emanating from the Natural World Products site are not a danger to public health.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department carries out unannounced site inspections to monitor air quality in the area surrounding the Natural World Products site.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of inspections his Department has carried out in 2024 to ascertain whether the Natural World Products site has been in breach of pollution regulations.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the measures Translink has taken to prevent accidents involving those working on train lines in and around Ballymoney train station.
I thank the Minister for that. I agree with her last point especially, and I welcome the other legislation that she is going to bring through on the issue. However, I have an overriding concern about payments being potentially limited, late or not forthcoming with this legislation or, potentially, the new legislation…
As has been said, our job is to sift through legislation, scrutinise it and ask questions. There are a lot of outstanding questions on the Bill that I will come to in a moment, and I hope to have some clarity from the Minister on them. I recognise that large parts of the Bill relate to children and young people.…
Thank you, Minister. What work will be commenced or has commenced to ensure that any jobs created outside Belfast will be unionised jobs and not jobs with zero-hours contracts, to which you have already stated your opposition?
One thousand killed and one million displaced over the past few days. I am not talking about Palestine this morning. Once again, Lebanon is being targeted and bombed by Israel. Once again, the biggest proponent of terror in the Middle East — Israel — is blowing up infrastructure and killing civilians on a mass scale.…