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 Assembly Commission (i) whether an MLA can retain and use their current Assembly issued printer for the constituency office; and (ii) whether an MLA can buy toner and a printer from another constituency office that is moving to use a new printer.
To ask the Assembly Commission to detail (i) the policy in relation to the use of the Members' Bar; and (ii) whether changes have been made to allow staff, MPs or visitors to access the area without being accompanied by an MLA.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether additional support will be provided to the Housing Executive to ensure it can meet its statutory duty to provide emergency homes, given the pressure over recent days when the Housing Executive was concerned that it had reached full capacity of available emergency…
Emergency Food Parcels for Children That this Assembly expresses grave alarm that the number of emergency food parcels distributed by Trussell food banks to children in Northern Ireland increased by 90 per cent during the last five years; is further alarmed that the proportion of emergency food parcels provided to…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any additional funding that will be available to support regulatory and environmental health functions in local authorities.
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on any discussions he has had with the Minister for the Economy on the recommendations for short-term lets and Airbnbs.
I thank the Minister. I rise as a member of the Committee for Communities and as Alliance housing spokesperson. In the initial briefing provided to the Committee for Communities by Mark O'Donnell, deputy secretary with responsibility for housing and sustainability, he confirmed that the Department would bring forward…
Thank you very much, Minister. I hope that, when you said earlier that plenty of man-hours would be spent on this, you meant that plenty of woman-hours would be spent too. Minister, if the Committee for Communities had had the opportunity to discuss this with you, one of the things that we would like to have done…
Minister, I come from a rural area. Street lights make it safer for pedestrians to walk along rural roads. Is there a record that we can access of removed street lights in each area in Northern Ireland?
To ask the Minister of Health, in light of World Aids Day on 1 December 2024, to detail any actions he is taking to achieve the UNAIDS target of no new HIV diagnoses by 2030.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any measures being taken to address the stigma associated with HIV, which can place a significant mental health burden on people living with the virus.
To ask the Minister of Health, in relation to his commitment to prevention, to detail his plans to invest in HIV awareness campaigns that could reduce the long-term cost burden on the NHS.
New Standing Order After Standing Order 59 insert:- 59A. Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee (1) This order supplements section 56B and Schedule 6B to the Northern Ireland Act 1998. (2) There shall be a standing committee of the Assembly to be known as the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee…
Thank you, Minister. What proactive engagement will you undertake to promote the apprenticeship inclusion challenge fund among businesses and individuals in order to meet your targets?
Thank you, Minister. Are you concerned that if Ministers do not live within their budgets, it will have an impact on negotiations with the UK Government on a permanent fiscal framework and debt forgiveness?
I came to the House in 2016, after Anna had left, but that does not mean to say that I did not know Anna in her role as a politician. I remember that, in 2014, as part of the European election campaign, she came to Portaferry to look at the SeaGen turbine that was in Strangford lough at the time. It was an absolutely…
To ask the Minister of Education for a breakdown of the (i) actions; (ii) timetable; and (iii) staff resource investment to ensure his Department is fulfilling its statutory duties as outlined in the Integrated Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2022, in each year since 2022.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any additional funding that will be provided to the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education to deliver research to identify methods of establishing parental demand for integrated education.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any financial assistance is available to enable children with disabilities to access in-patient dental treatment elsewhere in the UK or Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of children with disabilities awaiting in-patient dental treatment; and (ii) the average waiting time for in-patient dental services for children with disabilities, as of the end of October 2024, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any actions being taken to reduce waiting times for children with learning disabilities, who are living in pain, to access in-patient dental treatment.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any assessment that has been made of the amount of money his Department would save if the Help for Travel Cost scheme was updated to include people on Universal Credit, therefore removing the requirement to process HC1 forms.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of meetings, including dates, he or his Department has had with officials in the Department of Health to encourage progression of the Help with Travel Costs scheme for people in receipt of Universal Credit.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the number of applications; and (ii) the amount of funding secured from Financial Transactions Capital for projects to improve or build new homes in each of the last five financial years, including 2024-25.