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.
We desperately need to invest in our health service, hospitals, GP services, mental health provision, and drug addiction and rehab services. We need to invest in schools to provide pupils with the best opportunities and to improve the lives of so many young people affected by educational underachievement. We need to…
Any attacks on places of worship need to be condemned. We have seen a rise in attacks on mosques and in Islamophobia to really nasty levels. Minister, what is your assessment of the fact that the PSNI thinks that loyalist paramilitaries have a role to play in stopping racist violence or that they are not involved in…
My supplementary question is on a different matter. Minister, on the winter fuel payment, you said that you are meeting the Prime Minister on Thursday. Will you tell him your concern about more pensioners dying this winter as a result of the cruel cut to the winter fuel payment?
Despite today's opening of the Grand Central station in Belfast, government here still has the lowest spend across these islands on public transport. Hundreds less per head is spent here compared with other regions on these islands. The First Minister spoke of the need to be open and transparent. Minister, I ask you…
Mr Carroll asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether they agree that the £260 million announced by the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs a matter of days ago was a missed opportunity not to have strong environmental standards attached to money going out to farmers, given that…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of schools that have received the (i) NSPCC Talk PANTS programme; and (ii) NSPCC Speak out Stay safe programme, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the amount Translink has spent on (i) designing; and (ii) fitting 26 access doors to Belfast Grand Central Station.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure when the new track and signalling, installed as part of the Belfast Grand Central Station project, was approved for use by trains.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the amount Translink has spent on private hire buses to provide rail substitution bus services since Great Victoria Street station closed on 10 May 2024.
To ask the Minister of Health whether an assessment has been made of the potential impact on excess winter deaths as a result of the decision to means test the Winter Fuel Payments.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of correspondence he has received from NIPSA in relation to the Housing Executive or housing issues since taking office.
To ask the Minister of Health whether contracts with GP practices can be amended to ensure they provide training for frontline staff in supporting refugees and people seeking asylum to access their services.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any work being undertaken to ensure that providers of accommodation for asylum seekers share written and verbal information on accessing GP services with people seeking asylum soon after they have settled into accommodation.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of implementing a specialist service for people seeking asylum that provides person-centered, tailored information support and casework to enable greater access to health and social care services.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any plans in place to simplify and implement a uniform scheme around food labelling.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of administrative workers employed in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust on (i) 1 September 2008; and (ii) 1 September 2024.