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 to detail (i) how he will ensure the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) is able to meet the needs of tenants with disabilities, given the 2025-26 Draft Budget does not include a capital allocation for disability adaptations for NIHE homes; (ii) whether he will commit to…
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of the UK Government committing to legislate to ban no fault evictions and introducing Awaab's law, to detail any actions he will take during the remainder of the 2022-2027 mandate to ensure tenants are not left behind by this legislation not being replicated in Northern…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail how the 2025-26 draft budget allocation for Resource DEL for languages of £8.5 million is intended to be spent, including a percentage breakdown of the intended spend on (i) Irish; (ii) Ulster-Scots; (iii) Sign Language; and (iv) other languages.
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on the progress of reform of the Housing Executive, including plans to split the landlord function away from the policy setting and decision-making authority function.
I thank the Minister for his answer. You mentioned Mount Stewart which, as you know, is in the Strangford constituency. Have you any more detail on the impact on Mount Stewart, and would you be willing to visit it with me to see how the National Trust is responding to that damage?
Ms K Armstrong asked the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether there has been any assessment of the damage caused to forests and country parks by storm Éowyn, which caused a lot of damage across Northern Ireland, including trees falling on to roads.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he will review the barriers to healthcare experienced by people who are homeless, including the requirement for photographic identification by GPs when, in many cases, identification can only be provided to a person with an address.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he will (i) commit to ensuring all GP services provide a professional phone line or email for health care staff to enable and improve communications about patient care; and (ii) ensure such proactive communications are built in to future GP contracts.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any actions she is taking to replicate the driver licensing requirements used in Great Britain for drivers of not-for-profit community transport providers, rather than the need for full commercial driver licenses.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) how her Department is reviewing the community transport sector when she only funds a small number of community transport operators; and (ii) what investigation has been carried out on those organisations operating under a Section 10B permit, but do not receive any…
I beg to move Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I wish to address a pressing issue affecting the over 300,000 individuals in Northern Ireland who rely on the private rented sector for their housing needs. The motion highlights the critical challenges of unaffordable rents, insufficient long-term security and inadequate…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the Barnett consequentials he expects Northern Ireland to receive following the UK Government’s announcement of an additional £350 million in funding for existing affordable housing programmes.
I thank the Minister and congratulate him on bringing forward this long-awaited Sign Language Bill. As many in the House know, I have moderate hearing loss and am a double hearing-aid wearer. As a member of the deaf and hard of hearing community, I welcome the confirmation that British Sign Language and Irish Sign…
I thank the Minister of Finance for tabling the Supply resolutions for the spring Supplementary Estimates, the Vote on Account and the 2023-24 Excesses. I congratulate him on his new ministerial post and on sitting through what will be one of many boring Budget debates. I thank the Department of Finance and all the…
I rise to make an urgent call for greater support for over 300,000 people who are living in Northern Ireland's private rented sector. While many private renters have a good experience, that is far from universal. For some of them, life is, sadly, defined by a mixture of unaffordable rent hikes, long delays to have…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the (i) average; (ii) median; and (iii) longest number of days spent in temporary accommodation by households in the last ten financial years, including 2024-25, broken down by (a) Bespoke Facility of Temporary Accommodation; (b) Crash Dispersed Intensively Managed…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether the Letter of Expectation, sent by his Department to the Arts Council in week commencing 3 February 2025, means there will be a delay to funding for the Arts Sector from 1 April 2025.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any research his Department has carried out to review the average income for individuals in the arts sector, such as artists, performers and craftspeople, including where the data can be accessed.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he will make a bid for capital funding for 2025-26 to enable and improve (i) accessibility; and (ii) health and safety, for arts working spaces and audience areas, including studios, theatres and office spaces.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) whether his objectives and funding for the arts sector from 2025-26 will be based on co-production and co-design with the Arts Council and organisations and individuals delivering the arts; and (ii) to provide the evidence of this consultation.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will add (i) sign language to the modern languages curriculum to deliver access to learning British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language for Key Stage 3 pupils; and (ii) an introduction to sign language in primary schools.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for his assessment of the damage to forests and country parks as a result of Storm Éowyn.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the report or rationale he used to base his decision to set aside the findings and recommendations of the 2022 report from the Anti-Poverty Strategy Co-Design group.