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 for Communities for his assessment of whether commitments in the Disability Strategy adequately progress the rights of deaf and disabled people in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether the Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill will provide employees with rights to claim unfair dismissal from day one of their employment.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any plans he has to alleviate the pressures of the Universal Credit Act on (i) deaf; and (ii) disabled, people.
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on the Housing Executive’s temporary accommodation stock acquisition scheme, announced on 26 March 2025.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether the Housing Executive plans to use funds in its Landlord Reserve account to purchase accommodation to add to its stock of permanent social housing.
To ask the Minister of Health whether there will be any investment in the South West Acute Hospital, so that it will be sufficiently staffed and regain its emergency surgical capacity.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of transport connectivity and a lack of adequate services in rural areas, in relation to how these impact on health inequalities.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the lack of emergency surgery services at South West Acute Hospital, and its impact on the rural industrial and farming population.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any media organisations which (i) are eligible for; and (ii) have been awarded, funding for the latest road safety campaign.
To ask the Minister of Health whether Health and Social Care Trusts have reported an increase in health-related issues in relation to people living next to inland wind turbines.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for his assessment of whether the legislation that monitors the noise of inland wind turbines is fit for purpose.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of his Department’s December Monitoring Round bid for Decent Homes funding not being met, to detail any impact this will have on (i) the retrofitting of social homes; and (ii) tenants living in damp and mouldy conditions.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail his assessment of whether his Department’s December Monitoring Round allocation is sufficient for the timely progression of housing adaptations needed for sick, and disabled people.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 35930/22-27, whether any batteries were found in the Mobuoy illegal dump.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any screening completed under (i) the Rural Needs Act (Northern Ireland) 2016; and (ii) other Section 75 groups, in relation to wind turbines being erected in the Sperrins.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the rationale as to why wastewater treatment works' capacity sheets, received from NI Water, are treated as officially sensitive information for public bodies, including local councils.
To ask the Minister for Communities for his assessment of concerns raised by the Northern Ireland Federation of Housing Associations regarding changes made to funding allocated to housing associations, and the impact on new social housing projects.
I thank the Member for giving way. Will he concede that that does not take into account lower wages, higher levels of deprivation, higher levels of poverty and more-complex health issues and trauma. It takes no account of that stuff.