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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 for Infrastructure whether her Department has given any further consideration to providing financial support under Part five of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011, towards the purchase, conversion or running costs for wheelchair taxis.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether any assessment has been made of any savings realised by local councils that have adopted council residents-only policies at their recycling centres.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the baseline funding position for the Supporting People Programme, excluding non-recurrent additional in-year payments, in each of the last ten financial years, including 2025-2026.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of funding provided to the Supporting People Programme, in each of the last ten financial years, including 2025-2026, broken down by thematic area.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the amount spent on provision of temporary accommodation (a) net of housing benefit; and (b) including housing benefit; (ii) the average amount spent, per day, on provision of temporary accommodation (a) net of housing benefit; (b) including housing benefit, in each of…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the total amount spent on the provision of non-standard temporary accommodation; and (ii) the average amount spent per day on provision of non-standard temporary accommodation, in each of the last ten financial years, including 2025-2026.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for an update on whether parents of sick children will be included in the Hospital Travel Costs Scheme; and (ii) whether he has engaged with counterparts in England regarding the £10 million annual fund to cover travel costs for children and young people with cancer to attend…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on any plans her Department has to improve road safety, including the implementation of adequate street lighting in the Coshquin area of the Foyle constituency.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether she will consider increasing the enforcement timeframe for a Certificate of Lawful Use or Development in Northern Ireland, from five years to ten years, to align with the rest of the UK and better regulate unauthorised Houses in Multiple Occupancy, guesthouses, and bed…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of applications currently on the waiting list for the Affordable Warmth Scheme; and (ii) the average wait times, in each local council area, for the last 12 months.
I beg to move Thanks, Deputy Speaker. I welcome the chance to bring this important motion and address an issue that continues to cast a long and dark shadow over our communities. That drug-related deaths here have increased by nearly 50% over a decade shows the scale of the problem, but that shocking, sad and shameful…
I beg to move Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. It is clear to anyone as they walk or drive around our cities and towns that the situation with scramblers, motorbikes and e-scooters has escalated beyond a public nuisance to a risk to life. Almost every week, I am contacted by constituents who have…
Voluntary and Community Sector Funding That this Assembly recognises the social and economic value of the voluntary and community sector and the vital role it plays across Northern Ireland in supporting vulnerable people, strengthening communities and delivering essential public services; regrets that many…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 43108/22-27, whether his Department has considered support for fuel costs for health staff working in the community within the independent sector.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on the implementation of the Peatland Strategy including any next steps from his Department.
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on any planned changes to the Housing Selection Scheme, specifically when a new banded waiting list, as set out in proposal 10 of the Fundamental Review of Social Housing Allocations, will be introduced.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) how his Department determined that 70 per cent of home heating oil customers would benefit from the proposed £100 prepayment support; and (ii) whether this figure applies (a) under the current eligibility criteria; or (b) to any future expansion of the scheme.
A truly inclusive society is not measured by parroting slogans or by words alone. It is measured by whether children have the support that they need in the classroom or whether adults have the support that they need in their place of employment, in their GP surgery or at a hospital appointment. The Bill helps to…
I asked the Minister some questions for written answer on this issue a number of months ago, and the answer I got back was, "The Department does not retain the data to be able to answer this question". That begs the question — this is not my question here; I will come to it — about whether there is an issue with…
I am trying to digest that information or work out when the money will become available to those who need it. My colleague Matthew O'Toole asked about engagement with oil distributors here. I will come at it from a different angle. Perhaps the Minister can tell me whether he will engage with oil distributors to make…
Mr Durkan asked the Minister for Communities, having shared the frustration that the scheme does not go far enough to help all those who need it, be they gas customers or hard-pressed customers who are above the £30,000 income threshold, whether he can give any assurance to those who will qualify for the financial…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any progress on the Assembly’s motion of February 2025 regarding the development of a cross-departmental strategy to prepare for our ageing population, and embedding ageing population planning within the Programme for Government 2024–2027.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 41022/22-27, to detail the waiting times for red flag breast cancer assessments, for each month from September 2025 to February 2026.