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.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) to provide a copy of the processes and procedures used by his Department with third parties involved in co-designing and co-producing policy; (ii) to detail any mechanisms in place to measure (a) the effectiveness of the co-design and co-production process; and (b) feedback from…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether the proposed parking fines by each Health and Social Care Trust will be included in Penalty Charge Notice or Private Parking Charges legislation.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether she will introduce legislation, similar to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill going through Westminster, to remove the barriers to development that is limiting housebuilding in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 23336/22-27, to detail how her response complies with the Executive's concordat with the Community and Voluntary Sector to deliver effective partnership working and delivery of volunteering opportunities.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail when welfare mitigations will be reviewed to consider if the existing mitigations are meeting needs or if there are any gaps in support.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any cross-departmental actions that have been agreed with each Department, though the Housing Supply Strategy, to reduce the future cost to mitigate the Social Sector Size Criteria.
I rise to congratulate two long-standing organisations in my Strangford constituency that are celebrating significant anniversaries. I congratulate Portaferry Women's Institute, which celebrated its 90th anniversary. Portaferry WI is the second-oldest surviving institute. It was set up in 1935, and, at the first…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail (i) who is responsible for the delivery of strategies that are published as an Executive Strategy; and (ii) how the Executive Committee plans to ensure openness and transparency across all Departments to ensure an Executive Strategy is delivered.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail how toileting across the health service will be inclusive if single sex-only provision is maintained in hospitals and other facilities, given that most carers have to help the person they care for, who may be of the opposite sex, with toileting needs especially when attending…
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to an answer provided during the Urgent Oral Question on 10 March 2025, to provide a list of the dates he raised the anti-poverty strategy at the Executive.
To ask the Minister for Communities how he will report and update the Committee for Communities on the delivery of future social strategies, including the anti-poverty strategy, specifically on the areas that are being delivered by other Executive Departments.
The UK and Irish Governments may believe that they are working towards peace by engaging with so-called paramilitaries — every paramilitary is illegal; for anybody who has belonged to a proscribed organisation, in the past or now, if they still hold membership, that is illegal — but, in their naivety, they will be…
I agree absolutely with the Member that those transitional works have to be done in communities. However, there is absolutely no reporting of outcomes or of any achievements from any of those. I sit on the Committee for Communities, and I have looked and looked, and I see no outcomes. We know the bums on seats who…
Minister, I appreciate that you are not the Minister for Communities, but will you provide clarification? An Executive strategy is within the remit of the Executive; the Minister for Communities is not in charge of the Executive. Will you explain how we will monitor and measure the effectiveness of the anti-poverty…
We heard from the nurses at the all-party group meeting that there is supposed to be one inclusion health service nurse in each health trust area, with more in Belfast because of the pressures there. We heard that the Northern Trust does not have anyone. When will we see a full cohort of those nurses recruited and in…
Benefit Fraud To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of serious concerns raised by civil servants handling benefit claims in Northern Ireland— as reported in today’s Belfast Telegraph—including allegations of widespread benefit fraud, insufficient resources to combat abuse, and a lack of departmental support…
I congratulate Aoife on her maiden speech. I remember when I made mine. It was during a Budget debate with Máirtín Ó Muilleoir. Unfortunately, his response was not as kind. I spoke during an untimed debate on legislation, so I did not have the nerves of meeting the time limit. Well done. I had not intended to speak,…
I am very grateful to those who spoke for less than their seven allocated minutes so that I am able to get in today. I am very grateful to Mr Aiken for saying that he supports the Programme for Government, because, for a wee while, I thought that he had joined the Opposition Benches. This is a foundation document. As…
During the most recent meeting of the Committee for Communities, it was made aware of the fact that the disabled facilities grant may be funded but that no budget would be allocated to the Housing Executive for it to make disability adaptations to its properties. In the shameful absence of the disability strategy,…
Is it possible to have a list of the invitations received by the First Minister and the deputy First Minister in the week around St Patrick's Day? I know that you have said that there are certain meetings that you want to have, but what invitations came into your offices?
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the source of the £11.6 million for Fresh Start Shared Education and Housing, as listed on page 27 of the 2025-26 Draft Budget; (ii) what percentage of this amount is for (a) Shared Education; and (b) Shared Housing; and (iii) why the Department has removed references to…