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.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Delivering a Successful Fleadh”
Delivering a Successful Fleadh - Amendment 1 Leave out all after 'mutual understanding;’ and insert: ‘recognises that prior to the commencement of other sporting and cultural events, some accommodation providers have hiked prices to unsustainable levels; and calls on the Executive Office to convene a working group…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline what the funding earmarked for Lough Neagh in the Proposed Draft Budget 2026-29/30 will be spent on.
To ask the Minister of Justice whether she can confirm that Judge Burgess described the 16 per cent uplift in legal aid fees award to criminal barristers as being an interim position only.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) when the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust sold grave or burial plots at Milltown Cemetery back to the Diocese of Down and Connor; and (ii) much much these plots were sold for.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people that have been buried in Milltown Cemetery in grave or burial plots owned by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of graves or burial plots the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has purchased at Milltown Cemetery, including dates of purchase.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of grave or burial plots the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has purchased at Milltown Cemetery; and (ii) the number of plots still in the ownership of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether he has received communication from the Department of Health as to what the £495 million spend for Waiting Lists and Elective Care, detailed in the Proposed Draft Budget 2026-29/30, will be spent on.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the amount of revenue that would be raised if non-domestic rates were raised by 5 per cent over the next three years.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of successful Personal Independence Payment applicants that have lost their daily living component due to living in a care home.
I thank the Member for giving way. I am no longer on the Health Committee, as she knows, but she is. Can the Member indicate whether families who have to travel to England are financially supported by the trusts or the Department, or does that cost come out of their pocket? I genuinely do not know, and I would…
I thank the Members for tabling the motion. I speak with frustration because, a few years ago, I addressed this. My colleague from West Belfast on the Health Committee then and now spoke about the issue as well, so I feel frustration for those affected. I agree with others that the absence of a paediatric pathology…
To what extent does the procurement process take account of pharmaceutical companies engaging in price-gouging to determine which drugs are utilised or purchased? It is well documented that, quite often, the big pharmaceutical companies engage in that on the regular.
To ask the Minister of Health, in light of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s December 2025 survey showing that almost half of patients awaiting admission in Northern Ireland Emergency Departments were treated in corridors or other non-clinical spaces, whether his Department will commit to ending the practice…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any plans he has to introduce statutory rights for young people with disabilities between the ages of 19-25; and (ii) a timeline for his Department's review of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any plans to (i) mitigate delays in neurodevelopmental assessments for children; and (ii) provide pre-diagnostic and post-diagnostic support for their families.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the Society of Radiographers’ view that, in order to improve cancer services for patients, it is imperative to strengthen the radiographer workforce by investing in recruitment and equipment.
All my comments will be about the EU office in Belfast and everything that it could be doing. Part of the motion seems straightforward and not worth objecting to. Access to both markets has benefited suppliers and businesses in the North, which is an OK thing to note, observe and, for me, support. I have no issue with…
Minister, I am concerned that, for the people who need trials to start to get justice, there seems to be a strategy of placing blame for delays to justice at the feet of barristers who have taken strike action. I will leave it up to the Minister to say where that strategy is coming from. The strike is about addressing…
The spend on tackling health waiting lists and pollution in Lough Neagh is generally welcome. However, the devil will be in the detail. Will the money go to private companies, including some that polluted Lough Neagh or that benefit financially from the health crisis? You mentioned: "a relentless focus on driving…
Do you have any concerns about the Communities Minister's social housing allocations? His Department said that an initial capital allocation of £168 million would build 1,000 social homes. He went on to say that an extra £30 million from the December monitoring round would build 750 new homes. Obviously, the maths do…
It is worth acknowledging the seriousness of the devastating intervention that the United States launched on the people of Caracas almost a week ago, which killed at least 50 people. We know that the United States has a sorry, brutal history of intervention, capture, overthrowing democracy and undermining the wishes…