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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 qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any additional support his Department plans to put in place for unpaid carers who have reached State Pension age, particularly those who provide substantial or full-time care but do not receive Carer’s Allowance because their State Pension is treated as an underlying…
To ask the Minister of Finance to outline the progress that will be made on reform of shared property management before the end of the 2022-2027 Assembly mandate.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) any plans her Department has to review the process, whereby a victim’s psychiatric records may be sought or disclosed to the defence, including in cases of sexual assault and rape; and (ii) whether any consideration will be given to limiting unnecessarily invasive requests…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the number of cases involving sexual assault and rape waiting to be heard; and (i) the average length of time cases are waiting to be heard, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps being taken to reduce waiting times for access to specialist communication technology for children with additional needs.
To ask the Minister of Health, in relation to referrals for an Augmentative and Alternative Communication system, to detail any mechanisms available to prioritise a child where early access to this technology is considered vital to their development and they are not receiving palliative care.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department is in a position to provide funding to the Resource Centre Derry, Carnhill to assist with their New Build Project.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to detail any (a) operational safeguards; (b) escalation arrangements; and (c) contingency plans, that have been established to ensure that a person assessed as being at immediate risk of suicide is not left without a timely statutory response whilst awaiting assistance under Right…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any additional (a) investment; (b) staffing; (c) ambulance service capacity; (d) mental health crisis services; and (e) operational resources, that have been provided specifically to support the implementation of Phase 1 of Right Care, Right Person; and (ii) whether any…
To ask the Minister of Education (i) whether his Department has any plans to reconsider the omission of grief and bereavement from the proposed school curriculum; and (ii) to detail any steps being taken to ensure children and young people are given opportunities to develop an understanding of loss, grief and how to…
To ask the Minister for Communities in relation to the Anti-Poverty Strategy, which outlines measures to support children and adults with disabilities to access their full benefit entitlement, to detail any steps being taken to ensure children and young people with cancer can access benefits more quickly, for example…
I am not disagreeing per se with what the Minister said. He has outlined the time that it takes to design a support scheme of this nature. Given that and given that there may — just may — be the possibility of further cost-of-living assistance being announced in London — a Barnett consequential for us that I would…
The Programme for Government committed to making homelessness "brief, rare and non-recurrent". We currently have almost 35,000 households, representing almost 65,000 individuals, with homeless status. Is the Minister telling us today that Sinn Féin is blocking his efforts to get homelessness support through the…
Mr Durkan asked the Minister for Communities, having pointed out that his Department is currently rolling out a £100 support scheme for oil customers that was first announced almost six months ago and that we face an even deeper and darker cost-of-living crisis, what he is doing in his Department to design, perhaps,…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any recorded evidence, operational readiness assessments, risk assessments and assurances that informed the decision that the health and social care system was operationally ready to implement Phase one of Right Care, Right Person from 31 October 2026; (ii) who provided any…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail when the resurfacing works in the (i) Garden City; and (ii) O'Donovan Road, area within the Foyle constituency, will be completed.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any planned maintenance works of the (i) road; and (iii) footpath, networks in the Foyle Springs area, Derry.
Thanks to the Minister especially for agreeing to meet the Kelly family and for coming to Derry to do so last week. I know that they appreciated that. Will the Minister tell the House how useful she found that meeting to be and how it might inform her actions going forward?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any expenditure on services commissioned or funded by (i) the Public Health Agency; (ii) the Strategic Planning and Performance Group; and (iii) each Health and Social Care Trust, in the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department will consider reviewing the definition of suitable school within the Home to School transport eligibility.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any consideration his Department has given to introducing a scheme for first-time buyers purchasing new-build homes, to help people get on the property ladder.