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 a breakdown of single let providers in the last five years, broken down by (i) private landlord; (ii) private company; and (iii) estate agent.
To ask the Minister for Communities for his assessment of whether ending reliance on temporary accommodation will entail expanding the supply of permanent social housing.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department has carried out an assessment of the impact the loss of core grant funding has had on (i) the community and voluntary sector; and (ii) service delivery.
To ask the Minister of Education, in light of a statement made by his Department to Nuacht TG4 on 14 March 2025 indicating that he would be happy to look at the Scoil Spreagha issue, whether he will accept a request for a meeting with Gael Linn to discuss the Scoil Spreagtha programme.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in relation to his Department’s strategic responsibility to protect and enhance the development of the Irish language at a community level, for his assessment of the importance of teaching Irish in English-medium education settings.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any mitigations will be put in place to safeguard those organisations who were previously funded through his Department’s Core Grant Funding Scheme and have now lost that source of financial support.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of incidents of harassment, intimidation and abuse against Customer Revenue Protection Officers on the Glider service were recorded in the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of grievances that were submitted to Translink by (i) staff; and (ii) unions in each of the last five years.
I appreciate the Member's giving way. As I indicated, I am minded to support his party's amendment because, importantly, it talks about a mitigation package, which is crucial. Will he explain why his party's amendment removed the call for tax increases for the superwealthy? That is a bugbear for me and others.
I welcome the motion and what appears to be a new policy direction for the Alliance Party towards the redistribution of wealth. It is something that I genuinely support. Wealth taxes are often brushed off and even laughed at by some in this Building, so it is a welcome change in policy. Tens of thousands of people in…
I thank the Member for the answer. The Member will know that concerns have been raised about general job losses with this form of cleaning. What guarantees have been sought by the Commission to ensure that Aramark does not cut jobs? Cleaners in the Building have lost hours. If further hours are cut in the future, will…
To ask the Minister of Justice, further to the violent attacks and disorder in August 2024, (i) how many suspects have been charged with membership of a proscribed organisation; (ii) whether any of those cases have been dropped.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of staff in his Department that have formally registered an interest because an immediate family member has an agricultural or environment-related commercial interest.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure the number of occasions there were regulated (i) bus; and (ii) glider service journeys in Belfast, in each of the last five years.
I remind the Minister that it was slave revolts that ended slavery in the primary sense. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who toured this island and whose statute is in Belfast, stated: "The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours,…
Minister, hundreds of thousands of people will expect you not to do Labour's bidding by implementing the cuts. I hope that you will say today that you will not. Given the fact that there are no rent caps in the private rented sector, hundreds of millions of pounds from the welfare budget is going on private rented…
It is more of a linguistic demand than a political agenda. I remind the Minister that within a short distance of the site there are three Gaelscoileanna and the Gaeltacht Quarter. Does the Minister agree that it is insulting to say to Irish speakers, "It's OK to speak Irish at home or in an Irish language school, but…
It is fair to say that I and many others did not expect much from the Labour Government. The bar was set so low because of how awful the previous Conservative Administrations were. However, I and many others did not believe that things would be this appallingly bad so quickly. It is not even a year into this…
Mr Carroll asked the Minister for Communities, having said that it is important to acknowledge historical events aimed at the ending of empire, of which the Declaration of Independence is part, whether he agrees that a full accounting of history is essential, given that history shows that Andrew Jackson, whom he…