All of Ms Kellie Armstrong’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
The Minister talked about local-level priorities. How is she ensuring that strategically important and high-growth sectors in my Strangford constituency and across Northern Ireland are supported and developed through the work of the LEPs to achieve economic development?
Minister, you talked about: "the positive impact that the agencies have had in the language and culture sectors on both sides of the border." You have just referenced the fact that the budget helps that to happen. Will you give some of the positive impacts that the agencies have delivered?
I welcome the fact that it is Carers' Week. The theme for this year is Caring About Equality. It is not only a celebration of the invaluable contributions of unpaid carers but a call to address the profound inequalities that they face every day. Across the UK, around 5·7 million people provide unpaid care to family…
As my colleague Andrew McMurray just said, we need to build back patients' trust. Will Mr McBride be able to look at issues such as the number of appointments that are delayed because the consultant is not in the hospital? I have personal experience of a patient whose operation has been delayed five times. On one of…
Will the Minister confirm whether, under the social housing development programme, he has undertaken an evaluation of the outcomes of the shared housing programme?
To ask the Minister for Communities,pursuant to AQO 2109/22-27, (i) to clarify comments he made which intimated the the Mears Group are housing illegal immigrants; and (ii) for his assessment of the legal obligation for the UK to protect refugees and asylum seekers.
I thank Ms Bunting for securing the Adjournment debate. I do not live in East Belfast, although I will sort of claim that I lived there as a child because I spent so much time there visiting my Aunt Nuala and my Uncle Jimmy. Unfortunately, their street no longer exists. Mashona Street, beside Euston Street Primary…
Thank you, Minister. I pass on my thanks to your officials, who have worked with a difficult budget. I appreciate that you have not got everything that you were looking for, but I was disappointed to see that there is still no money for taking legal action against landowners who are letting our built heritage…
I join others, Mr Speaker, in wishing you a very happy birthday. Given the fact that the strategies are cross-cutting in nature, what role can the Executive Office play to ensure that the appropriate development and resourcing of strategies, such as the anti-poverty strategy or the LGBTQIA strategy, is being carried…
To ask the Minister of Health how many occupational therapists have received training on Housing our Ageing Population Panel for Innovation design principles, to ensure appropriate age-friendly and accessible standards are included when considering housing adaptations as part of their assessment for the Disabled…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for an update on the preparatory work for updating the Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004; and (ii) when the legislation will be brought forward.
To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on when the next phase of the review of (i) energy efficiency requirements and; (ii) related areas of Building Regulations, will be consulted upon.
To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on when the second religion question will be removed from the census in line with the rest of these islands.
To ask the Minister for Communities when the draft revised design standards for housing for older people (category 1 and category 2) will be implemented and made mandatory.
Minister, I am glad to hear that the active ageing strategy's action plan will be updated, but, as Mr Harvey mentioned, there are other social strategies. Minister, will you provide an update on when you will deliver each of those strategies, as I know that you have a time frame for that? I am particularly interested…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether any progress has been made on an independent review of the legal duties owed to homeless people and the development of legislation for a statutory duty to prevent homelessness.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any plans in place to action the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People recommendations for Own Motion Powers to represent children and young persons.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the funding mechanism used for (a) the Commissioner for Older People for Northern Ireland; and (b) the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People; and (ii) whether there is a ring-fenced funding allocation for the commissioners in the budget rather…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of (i) people; and (ii) households, who are (a) on the social housing waiting list; (b) in housing stress; and (c) with Full Duty Applicant Status, on 31 March and on 30 September in each of the last ten years, broken down by local council area and age of person…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether the additional £1 million proposed in the 2025/26 budget for pipeline schemes for the Supporting People programme can solely be used to fund new schemes, or can it be used to address currently existing cost pressures in Supporting People projects.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail his Department estimates for what the additional cost in: (i) Employer National Insurance Contributions; and (ii) National Living Wage increases, will be in 2025/26, for projects funded through the homelessness services budget.