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 the number of workers in education who have received LGBT+ anti-bullying training, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any facilities and resources in place to encourage non-binary and transgender students to not withdraw from physical education.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of children who have withdrawn from sports in school, because they have not been allowed to use toilets and changing facilities that match their pronouns, in each of the last five years.
Be quiet. You have had your time. It seems to be a non-subtle way to try and stick the boot into asylum seekers and refugees. It is poor housing, a lack of regulation and extortionate rents that are upsetting the "balance of a community", not demographic changes as you are alleging. My question was referred to earlier…
Minister, any attempt to clamp down on rogue landlords or those who are exploiting people through high rents is welcome. I am not sure that that is what this is; it seems to be a non-subtle way to try and stick the boot —.
Thanks, Mr Speaker. What does it say about our society that, with the passing of another year, there is another attempt at a strategy to deny our health and social care workers the pay that they are owed? How many times do health and social care workers need to be strung along by political parties and be told, "We get…
To ask the Minister of Health whether out of hours GPs receive any mandatory training in responding to psychiatric crises, psychosis, or schizophrenia.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail whether the Anti-Poverty Strategy has considered the merits of retrofitting, as a way to reduce poverty and fuel costs.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any work his Department has done to include a homelessness strategy, alongside the Anti-Poverty Strategy.
Minister, given that there is an outstanding pay award for health and social care staff, and that half the money is clearly not all the money, how will it be possible to implement the winter plan if health and social care staff remain underpaid and their demands are not met?
I thank the First Minister for her answer. She is aware that, earlier this year, Belfast City Council passed a motion, with the votes of Sinn Féin councillors among others, that expressed objection to the use of Belfast International Airport by US warplanes. At least 60 of them have gone through Aldergrove this year.…
I present the petition on behalf of over 3,000 people who signed it to raise their objections to the ongoing industrial derating policy. I thank Roan and the team at Act Now, who gathered the signatures. The petition challenges the fact that huge amounts of public money are going to major multinational corporations.…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether the Strategic Investment Board is working on a paper of options, involving the further use of the private sector, in the provision of housing.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether there are any differences in those acting under, a Power of Attorney and appointed advocates, in relation to matters concerning the Housing Executive.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of people waiting for a Housing Executive or housing association allocation for over five years, in West Belfast, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of complaints received by the Housing Executive, from tenants, about contractors not showing up to carry out works, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any consideration he has given to issues connected to housing, as part of the implementation of the anti-poverty strategy.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Reducing the Level of Unpaid Rates”
Reducing the Level of Unpaid Rates - Amendment 2 Leave out all after 'vital public services;' and insert: ‘notes that the total cost of industrial derating amounted to over £76 million last year, which could have otherwise been used to fund public services; calls on the Minister of Finance to tangibly increase the…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Reducing the Level of Unpaid Rates”
Reducing the Level of Unpaid Rates - Amendment 3 Leave out all after 'Land and Property Services;' insert: ‘further calls on the Minister to explore options for reforming the rates system that will reduce the number of long-term empty homes; and calls on the Minister to present a range of new and concrete proposals to…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Reducing the Level of Unpaid Rates”
Reducing the Level of Unpaid Rates - Amendment 4 Leave out all after 'Land and Property Services;' and insert: ‘further calls on the Minister to explore options for reforming the rates system with the objective of linking the amount of rates payable to a household's ability to pay; and calls on the Minister to present…