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Ms Kellie Armstrong: Assembly records
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To ask the Assembly Commission (i) for an update on its work to establish an independent panel to review MLA salaries; and (ii) whether this panel will be required to review and compare the remuneration of Statutory Committees and Standing Committees with other devolved regions, to include a review of remuneration for…
To ask the Assembly Commission whether any unused ink cartridges will be reimbursed to office cost allowances when printers in constituency offices and MLA offices in Parliament Buildings are replaced.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Lowering the Voting Age for 16 and 17 Year Olds”
Lowering the Voting Age for 16 and 17 Year Olds - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘referendums;’ and insert: ‘endorses the recommendation from the Institute of Public Policy Research 2023 report, Out of Kilter, which calls for votes at 16 to be combined with high-quality and expansive civic education in schools to…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether customers who have unused ferry tickets due to expire during the period when the ferry service is cancelled will be granted an extension to the use by date of those tickets, at least equivalent to the length of time the ferry service is cancelled.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether the staff employed on the Strangford ferry service will be redeployed or furloughed during the period when the ferry service is cancelled from 14 October 2024.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to confirm that all repair and maintenance work on the Strangford II and Portaferry II ferries will be completed during the five weeks from 14 October 2024 when they are out of service.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any arrangements in place with Translink to provide additional buses from Strangford to Downpatrick during the period when the Strangford ferry service is cancelled from 14 October 2024.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any scoping exercises completed to establish possible alternatives to cancelling the Strangford ferry for five weeks from 14 October 2024.
For clarification, we currently have a deadline by which a private Member's Bill has to be submitted to the Speaker's Office for consideration. The change to Standing Orders states that, once Members have got the go-ahead for their PMB, they have until the final sitting in June 2026 to submit it to the House. It does…
Thank you, Mr Speaker. On behalf of the Committee on Procedures, I am pleased to bring the motion to amend Standing Orders to the House. The Committee is considering a range of issues to improve the effective and efficient operation of plenary sittings and Committee meetings. The proposed change is the first of a…
Thank you for your statement, Minister. During your conversations, was there any consideration of the standardisation of Irish and Ulster Scots? I know that there has been talk about a dictionary. The wealth and the generosity of language come from the variations. We know that "thran" in Ulster Scots means something…
I rise today with a concern, which is that the Minister for Infrastructure and the Department for Infrastructure have announced that the Strangford ferry crossing will cease for five weeks from 14 October. That will have a huge impact on the Strangford constituency, particularly those in the Upper Ards who use that…
Strangford Ferry Service To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to outline the impact of the decision to suspend the Strangford Ferry Service for five weeks from 14th October 2024, on education delivery and the economy.
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on the roll-out of the Fundamental Reform of Allocations scheme, including a timeline for the completion of phase 3 and phase 4 of the project.
Thank you, Minister. You mentioned that the housing strategy is coming forward. Can you share with the House what priorities you will have to ensure that all people have access to an appropriate home to prevent homelessness?
Minister, when it comes to the winter fuel payments, we know that affordable warmth is important. Can you confirm that the Housing Executive will direct that scheme first at pensioners who live in homes that have not yet been retrofitted, in order to make their heat as affordable as possible?
Thank you, First Minister. I am delighted to hear your answer about the oversight board. You talked about collaboration, co-production and co-design: does that mean that, as part of the oversight board, the community and voluntary sector will continue to have a role in updating and amending the framework moving…
Ms Armstrong asked the Minister for Communities, having thanked him for his comments about Ulster-Scots culture and welcomed those comments as a former festival Irish dancer, about the reaction that he has had from Westminster when he has raised the issue of the housing crisis and the need for investment in Northern…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) to detail the application process to install a pedestrian road crossing; and (ii) whether consideration has been given to install a pedestrian crossing at Ballynahinch Primary School.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the remit of; (ii) the timeframe of work; and (iii) what has been achieved by the Housing Executive’s Housing Solutions Task and Finish Group.