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 how the Women’s Health Action Plan will ensure improved awareness and understanding of women’s health issues across a range of healthcare settings, not just specialist services.
To ask the Minister of Health whether education and training on menstrual health and endometriosis for healthcare practitioners will be included as a key priority within the Women’s Health Action Plan.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any consideration he has given to the negative implications of removing the social disadvantage criteria for admission into the childcare subsidy scheme.
To ask the Minister of Education whether the Toybox scheme will keep its exclusive focus on the specific developmental needs of Traveller, Roma and Newcomer children in the event of its expansion, as outlined in the draft Childcare Strategy.
To ask the Minister of Education how the Strategic Childcare Investment Fund, referenced in the draft Childcare Strategy, will increase capacity and support for rural childcare providers.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any consideration his Department has taken of people who work shifts in the development of the childcare strategy.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of childcare providers in Belfast that avail of Tax Free Childcare (TFC) that do not have children below primary school age using their provision that are eligible for TFC.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has carried out an assessment as to the low uptake of the childcare subsidy scheme in West Belfast.
I thank the Minister for giving way. The British Government and the coalition in the South are not known for the speediness of their actions. In the absence of their acting to ensure that the Minister can establish an independent EPA, what is his plan of action to ensure that it is created before the mandate expires?
In the last debate, I commented on how long it is taking the Assembly to implement free parking for people in hospitals. However, from this motion it is clear that we take longer and longer — the years have gone by, quite literally — to put an independent EPA in place. I say clearly that an independent EPA is long…
I thank the Member for giving way. I agree with a lot of what he has said. I said similar stuff, albeit more briefly, in the previous debate. Is the Member concerned, as I am, that finance was mentioned in the Minister's rationale for introducing the Bill even though his Department has no problem giving hundreds of…