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Mr Jonathan Buckley: Assembly records
All of Mr Jonathan Buckley’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 any steps being taken to increase the number of funded nursery places, to reduce competition between families.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any plans in place to increase the number of temporary accommodation units, to meet demand within the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area.
The Minister is right to highlight the far-reaching consequences of the introduction of a new empathy test. Perhaps we should put it to the test. How would the Minister rate the Alliance Party's Andrew Muir on that empathy? He is a man who continues to demonise the agricultural community and wage war on their…
The Minister says that animal welfare is one of his key priorities, but how does that stand up to scrutiny when we continue to see thousands of otherwise happy and healthy dairy cows and other cattle being sent to slaughter because of positive TB reactions? Will the Minister deal with the wildlife issue and ensure…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail when the Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances admissions criterion was last formally reviewed by his Department.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any assessment his Department has made of the impact of the Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances criterion on working parents, who are unable to secure nursery places.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the proportion of applicants who were refused a nursery place, who were from working households, not in receipt of qualifying benefits, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of funded nursery places allocated under the Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances criterion, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any evidence used to justify the current priority given to those who fall under Socially Disadvantaged Circumstances criterion, in nursery admissions.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister how any planned engagement in the United States of America during the forthcoming St. Patrick’s Day period will support the Executive’s priorities on investment, economic development and international relations.
I thank the Member for giving way. Does he agree that it is telling that, despite its being a subject in the debate, that particular point was not addressed by the Minister? To whom did the Department write? Who owns the billboard?
I thank the Minister for giving way. Minister, is that a play on words? Are you saying that, because the messaging on the billboard has changed, the billboard does not exist? Is that what you are saying?
At the outset, I say, "Congratulations" to the new Member for Newry and Armagh. I wish him well in his new role. I have worked with him and, indeed, his predecessor for a long time. He will put in sterling work in the Chamber. At the very heart of the motion, which, I imagine, is serious for everybody, is the rule of…
I thank the Member for giving way. I agree with him: the debate is not about the particular political messaging on the billboard. Does he accept that the debate is about the size, scale and location of the billboard and the glaring hypocrisy of the party of the Minister in control, which seems to have some association…
Minister, from policing to our courts to our prisons, public confidence in the Department of Justice is at an all-time low. Do you feel that you are still up to the job?
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. There are many ways in which we can increase biodiversity and wildlife in Northern Ireland, but I do not believe that the Minister is considering some of the measures that would not affect agricultural land use, such as managing wildfires by controlled burning, managing predators in…
I will use my time this morning to pay tribute to the life of a remarkable young man from County Armagh, Blake McCaughey. On Saturday, I read the tribute from his mother, Christine: "Our beautiful, amazing, inspirational Blakey Boy. Today you left to us for heaven and you have left a pain I cannot describe. No…
Mr Buckley asked the Minister of Justice, after noting that, over the past few months, blunder after blunder and mistake after mistake had been witnessed at the Department of Justice and that that was not a good look, what is going on.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department is taking any action to seek the derogation on the current bluetongue restriction on movement of livestock to other EU states for slaughter only.
Stonewall has argued that children as young as two can be transexual and that workplaces should replace the word "mother" with the term "parent who has given birth". Does the First Minister agree that language such as a "parent who has given birth" will never replace our precious mothers — not in the United Kingdom of…
FlaggedGender, sexuality, abortion and related social issuesCriteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
Members will forgive me for thinking that, having listened to the Alliance Party's contribution, I had stumbled across a foreign affairs seminar at a Sinn Féin party conference. Apparently, in the world view of Eóin Tennyson, unionism is in some way implicated in the United States' position on Greenland. Let me be…
FlaggedConstitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereigntyCriteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.