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 Education to detail any assessment his Department has carried out in relation to the financial relief offered to families who require wraparound childcare.
Strengthening Northern Ireland’s Defence Industries - Amendment 2 Leave out all after ‘potential of’ and insert: ‘demilitarising and repurposing the aerospace, defence, security, and space sectors in Northern Ireland for the creation of new green jobs as part of a just transition; notes that these growing industries…
Junior Doctors’ Pay - Amendment 2 After ‘last resort;’ insert: ‘and supports the strike action by junior doctors as a means of delivering on their pay demands;’
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the amount of funding he will commit in Financial Transactions Capital loans for the establishment of intermediate-rent homes; and (ii) the interest that will be charged on such a loan.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the engagement he has had with housing rights organisations in relation to the development of intermediate-rent homes.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) any land that has been identified for the building of intermediate-rent homes; and (i) the basis this land was identified.
Our primary carers face an unacceptable amount of pressure without the resources to address it. While demand continues to escalate and the workforce is becoming more and more depleted, the real-terms funding cuts in general practice have created an unmanageable burden. To neglect and abandon the people who are holding…
I want to raise the issue of police spying on journalists in this state. I would like to say that I am shocked to hear that the PSNI put so many journalists under surveillance. It really should come as a shock that the PSNI accessed the phone bills of journalists who have carried out their important democratic…
Across this island, we have a crisis, but, contrary to some views that have been expressed in the House, and by the Tories and mainstream, right-wing and illiberal media, we do not have a problem or crisis with migration or asylum seekers. We have a problem with landlord-ism across this country, in which hundreds of…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the amount their Department has spent on (i) social media; and (ii) sponsoring posts on social media platforms, in each of the last three years.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the budget allocated for communications and marketing in their Department for the 2024-25 financial year, broken down by (i) internal spend; and (ii) external spend.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the number of media interviews they have given since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether he will lay a climate action plan before the Assembly by 6 June 2024, as required by the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.
I did not expect the Member to give way, but I am thankful that he did. I remind him that we submitted leaflets to workers at Harland and Wolff that stated that we are for workers' skills being used in the just transition to green energy and away from warfare. I do not think that the SDLP did that.
Just today, environmental campaigners gathered outside the Building to demand immediate action to tackle the environmental crisis at Lough Neagh. They gathered because the crisis is urgent, because the loss of biodiversity is rapid and catastrophic and because the poisoning of our drinking water has continued unabated…
To ask the Minister of Health whether he has made any representations to the Minister for the Economy to remove the cap on those studying social work to help resolve the workforce pressures in the sector.
To ask the Minister of Education if he has any plans to increase resource and funding to Altram to assist the organisation to deliver more services and support to the Irish medium sector.
To ask the Minister of Education (i) for his assessment of Altram’s Irish-Medium Early Years State of the Sector Report, published in 2017; and (ii) what plans his Department has to act upon it.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the funding available to support the expansion of early years programmes in Naíonraí to 0-3 in the Irish medium sector.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether any work has been carried out to consider reducing the cap on people studying social work to help resolve the workforce pressures.