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Ms Kellie Armstrong: Assembly records
All of Ms Kellie Armstrong’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any (i) organisations; and (ii) individuals, consulted with as part of the consideration of the review of homelessness legislation.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail a timeline for his review of homelessness legislation, including (i) when officials started the review; (ii) dates of meetings with consultees; and (iii) the date when the report and outcomes are expected to be made public.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he will provide a copy of the terms and conditions for the Homelessness Commission, which was announced at the Housing Rights event on Monday 14 September 2026, in Parliament Buildings.
To ask the Minister of Health whether there are any plans to review the eligibility rules governing health service optical vouchers for children requiring myopia management lenses.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any specific gap in the existing functions of his Department, the Strategic Planning and Performance Group, and Health and Social Care bodies led to the establishment of the Independent Reconfiguration Committee.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any estimate has been made of the financial impact on families of children requiring myopia management lenses that are not eligible for support through the health service optical voucher scheme.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department has conducted any review of arrangements in other UK jurisdictions that allow the value of children's health service optical vouchers to be offset against the cost of myopia management lenses.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any discussions his Department has had with representative bodies of the optical sector in relation to the use of health service optical vouchers for myopia management treatments.
To ask the Assembly Commission to detail when the loop system installed in Parliament Buildings will be updated to enable MLAs with digital hearing aids, prescribed and provided by local Health and Social Care Trusts, to be able to access assistive listening technology.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the criteria that his Department uses when determining whether optical treatments are eligible for support through the health service optical voucher scheme.
To ask the Minister of Health whether health service optical vouchers can be used as a contribution towards the cost of myopia management lenses prescribed for children.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any assessment has been made of the evidence base in relation to the effectiveness of myopia management lenses in slowing the progression of myopia in children.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any consideration has been given to permitting health service optical vouchers to be used as a contribution towards the cost of myopia management lenses.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail when the guidance contained in the Sign Language Act (Northern Ireland) 2026 will be provided to all prescribed organisations.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any strategies (i) completed including the date they were published; and (ii) still in progress including when they will be published, during his tenure as Minister.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) when sign language classes for people under the age of 25, and their family and carers, will begin; and (ii) where these classes are to be held.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail when the recruitment and selection of persons and bodies as outlined in section 5, 3 (b) of the Sign Language Act (Northern Ireland) 2026 will progress.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any remaining legislation he intends to bring to the Assembly before the end of the 2022-2027 Assembly Mandate in March 2027.
Minister, I am sure that, like me, you are disappointed that the target of 5,850 social homes has not been met. Has there been a review of your decision to cut the housing association grant that contributes to building those homes? How has that impacted on the ability to provide those homes?
To ask the Minister of Finance whether he will establish a formal data-sharing partnership involving government departments, the community and voluntary sector, academic institutions and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency to monitor hunger, food insecurity and food bank usage, and to assess progress…
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of the findings of Trussell's Pathways to End the Need for Food Banks in Northern Ireland initiative, to detail (i) any steps his Department is taking to support households facing financial hardship, income shocks, housing insecurity and food poverty; and (ii) any…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether any consideration will be given to (i) including in the next Programme for Government a specific target to end the need for food banks and charitable food provision; and (ii) formally adopting the recommendations contained in Trussell's Pathways to End the Need for Food…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether any consideration will be given to the establishment of a cross-departmental governance group, chaired by their Department, to oversee delivery of actions aimed at ending the need for food banks.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) whether there are any plans to introduce multi-year, inflation-linked, full cost recovery funding arrangements for advice services and community organisations supporting people experiencing poverty and financial hardship; and (ii) whether any assessment has been made of the…