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.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the amount his Department spent on legal counsel representation in each of the last five years.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I thank the Members who contributed to the debate. I will not be able to go through every point, given the time limit, but I thank the parties that are supporting my amendment. I will cover a couple of the comments. Jemma Dolan said that the fleadh is the biggest and best event for…
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank the Members opposite for tabling the motion. There is no doubt that Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann is a fantastic and world-renowned cultural event for people who love traditional Irish music and culture more generally. It is a real positive that that amazing event is coming to…
In response to the Member, I say that it is landlords who are pushing up rents, not students or asylum seekers. I support the motion. It raises two important demands: rent controls, which are long overdue, and a moratorium on the house sales scheme. I will not be supporting either amendment, because I think that they…
Can you elaborate on what work is being done to look at the role of religious institutions, either as part of the historical institutional abuse Bill or separately? Do you believe that assets and wealth should be seized from those institutions if they destroy records or fail to compensate the victims and survivors…
There is no doubt that the Executive are failing to deliver on their core responsibilities and that the public have been completely and utterly let down. Most of the Executive's legislative programme consists of technical or catch-up Bills. Executive parties are too busy sticking the boot into one another to govern…
Another week has gone by, and another attempt by the US president to engage in a land grab for resources, regardless of the impact on a sovereign people who already live in a sovereign country. Much was made of this president being a non-interventionalist by Jonathan Company — I mean Jonathan Buckley — but the actions…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of occasions her Department received a request from the Lady Chief Justice for mediation in relation to the criminal barristers strike.
To ask the Minister of Education whether pre-schools will be eligible for the Pre-school Inclusion Fund if they do not have any children with special educational needs in their setting.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for her assessment of whether the gradient of an incline is an accurate way of determining whether an area requires a grit box.
Waiting Lists Affecting Winter Preparedness - Amendment 1 After ‘and calls’ insert: ‘on the Minister of Health to commit to stop spending public money on private healthcare companies for waiting list initiatives, and to invest directly in the health service and its workforce instead; and further calls’
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the average waiting time for a trial to commence for cases involving defendants receiving legal aid in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the date on which (i) the Bar wrote to her Department in advance of the criminal barristers strike commencing; and (ii) her Department responded to that correspondence.
To ask the Minister of Justice whether the Bar has supplied submissions and proposals to her Department, including independent economic appraisals, in relation to an uplift payment for legal aid.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Executive Progress”
Executive Progress - Amendment 2 Leave out all after ‘Programme for Government targets;’ and insert: ‘recognises that this failure is not a result of a particular technical matter but has been caused by successive Executives’ failure to break with the economic strategy advanced by the Treasury, including refusing to…
Addressing Unaffordable Housing Costs - Amendment 3 Leave out all after 'rent inflation;' and insert: ‘resolves that no MLA who has registered an interest as a private residential landlord should be permitted to vote on Assembly matters related to the private rented sector, or form part of the Committee for…