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Mr Mark Durkan: Assembly records
All of Mr Mark Durkan’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 of Justice to detail (i) the number of files, relating to incidents at Health and Social Care mental health inpatient facilities, that were referred by the Police Service of Northern Ireland to the Public Prosecution Service; (ii) the number of cases in which the Public Prosecution Service directed…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of (a) violent; and (b) serious, incidents recorded in Health and Social Care mental health inpatient facilities; and (ii) the number of occasions on which police assistance was requested, over the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any mandatory mental health training provided to Health and Social Care staff, working in mental health inpatient facilities; and (ii) the proportion of staff who have completed this training, in each Health and Social Care Trust, for each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of (i) alleged breaches reported; (ii) fixed penalty notices issued; (iii) prosecutions initiated; and (iv) successful convictions obtained, in each local council area, since the commencement of the Private Tenancies Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 and landlord…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of Home Starter Packs that have been provided; and (ii) the cumulative costs of this provision, for the last two years, in each local council area.
To ask the Minister of Health, with reference to the Royal College of Radiologists Clinical Radiology Census 2025, whether any assessment has been made of the findings that (i) 100 per cent of radiology department leaders are concerned about backlogs and delayed treatment as a result of workforce shortages; and (ii)…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps he is taking to preserve tumour site expertise for common cancer types, so that patients have equitable access to specialist cancer care.
To ask the Minister of Health whether there are any plans to publish a timetable for reducing consultant shortfalls in (i) clinical radiology; and (ii) clinical oncology.
To ask the Minister of Health, in relation to Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) services, to detail (i) the number of patients currently waiting for assessment; (ii) the average waiting time for those patients; and (iii) the number of ENT specialists, in the last two years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister for Communities, regarding the Disability Strategy, to detail (i) when the accompanying Action Plan will be published; and (ii) any co-production arrangements that will be in place with deaf and disabled people during the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of (i) females; and (ii) males, who have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, in the last five years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 47551/22-27, to detail the number of journeys this expenditure represents, for each local council area, over the last two years.
I thank the Minister for his statement. There are more than 50,000 households on the housing waiting list here. Over the past decade, with the DUP and Sinn Féin at the helm, homelessness has increased by 120% here, so we welcome any initiative to create more homes. We have to get that right, however, and this…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the number of incidents involving (i) mental health concerns; (ii) welfare checks; and (iii) suicidal behaviour, that were attended by the PSNI, in each of the last five years, broken down by each local council area.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps that are being taken to deliver urgent care pathways for cancer patients, in particular for those attending Emergency Departments, in the Western Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on the implementation of a specialist provision in mainstream schools unit at Holy Child Primary School, in the Foyle Constituency.
To ask the Minister for Communities, regarding the Affordable Rent Scheme, whether the 20 per cent rent reduction is based on advertised market rents or rental costs currently being paid by private rented tenants.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of his announcement on the Affordable Rent Scheme, to detail the 6000 new social homes currently under construction, broken down by local council area.
I thank the Minister for his answer. However, the point must be made that the Minister's perceived inaction on or indifference to the issue up until this point has been in stark contrast to the heroic efforts of the housing workers, his departmental officials, the voluntary and community sector, churches and the…
Mr Durkan asked the Minister for Communities, after expressing his hope that that is the end of the Punch and Judy politics when it comes to discussing an extremely important humanitarian issue, and adding that he is glad to have now heard more specifics on the action that the Minister and his Department have been…
To ask the Minister of Justice whether police officers remain under a duty of care to attend incidents, where an individual is in mental health crisis, regardless of whether the incident is classified primarily as a health matter.