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.
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To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any additional measures being considered to better support and protect women and girls who report domestic abuse, especially where cases do not meet the prosecution threshold.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43355/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43355/22-27
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the number of domestic abuse cases referred to the Public Prosecution Service; and (ii) the number of those cases that did not proceed due to insufficient evidence, for each of the last five years.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43354/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43354/22-27
To ask the Minister of Justice, pursuant to AQW 42328/22-27, whether her Department will engage with the PSNI or the National Police Chief’s Council, to consider the deployment of Family Liaison Officers in the case of drug-related deaths.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43353/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43353/22-27
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the evidential threshold applied by the Public Prosecution Service in cases of domestic abuse; and (ii) any assessment she has made of its appropriateness, given the complex and coercive nature of such offences.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43352/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43352/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any summer schemes that will be provided by the Education Authority for children with special educational needs this summer.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43356/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43356/22-27
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps that are being taken to ensure that frontline health services, including Emergency Departments and GP services, are equipped to identify patients experiencing domestic abuse and coercive control.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43231/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43231/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education whether there are any plans to introduce a temporary variation to home to school transport contracts, in response to the increase of the cost of fuel.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43233/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43233/22-27
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether her Department has any plans to resurface roads in the Garden City area, in the Foyle constituency.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43232/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43232/22-27
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any steps her Department is taking to improve the availability and accessibility of public transport at night in the Foyle constituency, particularly in the context of tackling violence against women and girls.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43229/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43229/22-27
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on any engagement with the UK Government regarding construction products policy, including how his Department is ensuring that Northern Ireland’s position is appropriately recognised and addressed, in the context of responsibility for defective materials.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43230/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43230/22-27
The Member accused others of cheerleading. Does he accept that the conflict that his party is cheerleading is what is causing hardship for people here now, never mind the carnage that it is causing elsewhere?
Decided on a second assessment.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Energy Security: Renewables Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Energy Security: Renewables
Will the Member give way?
Not analysed
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Energy Security: Renewables Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Energy Security: Renewables
The motion speaks to major and ever-growing issues that people are facing across the North, which are the cost of energy, security of supply and the reality that too many households remain exposed when there is instability in other parts of the world. The conflict in the Middle East has, once again, shown just how…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Energy Security: Renewables Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Energy Security: Renewables
I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. From April, workers in Northern Ireland who experience miscarriage will be entitled to statutory leave and pay, and that is a significant and overdue step forward. For too long, pregnancy loss before 24 weeks has not been recognised properly in our employment…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Miscarriage) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Parental Bereavement Leave and Pay (Miscarriage) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
The Minister and the Chair have outlined succinctly and comprehensively the rationale, purpose and function of each individual amendment in group 2. They all tie in together to improve and strengthen the draft legislation. The majority of them, as has been set out, are really the fruits of a thorough, robust and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sign Language Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sign Language Bill: Consideration Stage
I speak today on behalf of the SDLP. We are the official Opposition, but, on this occasion, there will be no opposition from us to any of the amendments. It would be great to see us all in agreement on something, because that does not happen in here often. As Members have said, this is important legislation. It is of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sign Language Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sign Language Bill: Consideration Stage
The Minister's musings sound like a travelogue, but I suppose that mimicking Bill Bryson is an improvement on mimicking Jamie Bryson. Yesterday, the DUP was outraged about the waste of public money and so-called vanity projects. To date, almost half a million pounds has been allocated to celebrate the 250th…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: USA-NI 250 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: USA-NI 250
Addressing the Mental Health Crisis That this Assembly expresses grave concern over the mental health crisis and the findings from the Northern Ireland Health Survey that, in 2021-22, approximately one in five adults showed indications of possible mental health problems; notes with alarm that the number of…
Assessment details for Motion or amendment: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: Addressing the Mental Health Crisis
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on the rollout of the coercive control campaign as part of the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls framework.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43107/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43107/22-27
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) for an update on her engagement with law enforcement to address the risks associated with the online radicalisation of young men, particularly through misogynist extremism and incel-related content; and (ii) to detail any steps she is taking to prevent the spread of such harmful…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43105/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43105/22-27
To ask the Minister of Health whether if he will review mileage rates for domiciliary care, given recent rises in fuel costs.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43108/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43108/22-27
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 30156/22-27, whether the Registrar General has received any update relating to changes to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, in order to address issues facing couples who receive IVF treatment outside the UK.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43106/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43106/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any steps being taken within the school curriculum to address the rise in misogyny, and to ensure that issues such as coercive control, respect and healthy relationships are being effectively taught across all schools.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 43104/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 43104/22-27
We all agree that the support that has come from the British Government falls woefully short of what is required to protect households here, particularly those on the lowest incomes. Will the Minister outline whether any assessment has been done of the cost of providing targeted support to the most vulnerable…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Energy Costs: Support Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Energy Costs: Support
Today, Derry is mourning a devastating loss following the murder of Amy Doherty, a young mother, a carer with North West Care and a woman who gave so much of herself to others. Alongside that grief, something else is sitting heavy in all of us: anger and a deep uneasiness that so many women know only too well. Our…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Violence against Women and Girls: Deaths of Amy Doherty and Ellie Flanagan Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Violence against Women and Girls: Deaths of Amy Doherty and Ellie Flanagan
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