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 to detail the areas in the Foyle constituency which have passed an assessment for a grit box and currently do not have one in place.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department will bring forward a regulatory framework for letting agents, to address concerns around unfair fees and to improve transparency for tenants.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail how the Northern Ireland Environment Agency’s decision to specifically exclude renewable energy projects from local councils’ lists of priority applications that require a consultation response aligns with his Department’s responsibility to…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the legal basis on which the Northern Ireland Environment Agency can refuse to prioritise consultation responses for renewable energy planning applications, when inviting lists of priority planning applications from each local council.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail why renewable energy planning applications are being excluded by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, when inviting lists of priority planning applications that require consultation responses, from each local council.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail how the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has decided the types of planning applications that can be included in consultation response prioritisation lists, invited from each local council.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the average time it takes the Northern Ireland Environment Agency to provide its final substantive response to consultations, regarding planning applications for wind farms.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the threshold assessment process, used in the recent Administrative Officer competition, for applicants who submitted expressions of interest.
To ask the Minister of Finance for a breakdown of (i) the number of (a) agency; and (b) temporary, staff employed by the NI Civil Service; (iii) the average length of time they have been in post; and (iii) the number of these staff who have subsequently been offered a permanent role within the NI Civil Service, in…
To ask the Minister of Finance whether a soft-launch recruitment process has been considered, that would give priority to existing NI Civil Service staff working in temporary or agency roles, when filling upcoming permanent positions.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail geographical breakdown of the number of electric vehicle charge points, both (i) current; and (ii) planned.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail whether the Universal Credit Bill changes made by the UK Government from April 2026 in relation to the health element for new claimants, will apply to claimants in Northern Ireland.
I declare an interest: my family owns licensed premises. Recommendation 6, which is: "to introduce an administrative process by which licences can be reviewed on the basis of serious and/or multiple breaches of conditions", has been rejected because a system is already in place. How many licences have been suspended…
I thank the Minister for his statement. The reduction of the housing association grant in other areas has either contributed to or coincided with a reduction in the number of homes delivered, although I appreciate that there will have been multiple factors at play. Come 2027, how will the success or otherwise of the…
I thank the Minister for the statement. It is certainly nice to hear some of the positive proposals in the statement. Businesses will be glad to hear them. They will be even gladder to see them. It would be nice if we could get some indication of when that might be. Given that previous proposals have been sat at the…
Protecting Privacy and Dignity at Traffic Collision Sites That this Assembly expresses concern at the increasing trend of individuals and media outlets capturing and distributing distressing footage at the scenes of fatal or critical road traffic collisions; recognises the trauma this causes to the families affected…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of times she has (i) met with; or (ii) received correspondence from, the Minister for Communities in relation to wastewater capacity, in the last 12 months.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the amount of the NI Housing Executive’s reserves used to reduce the cost of temporary accommodation; (ii) how those funds were applied; and (iii) by the amount overall temporary accommodation costs were reduced as a result, in the last 12 months.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he will establish a public land agency, to maximise the use of public land for the delivery of sustainable and affordable housing.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in relation to the Social Housing Development Programme, to detail the number of new builds (i) started; and (ii) completed, in the last 12 months, broken down by local council.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) whether his Department has conducted their own value for money exercise into temporary accommodation; and (ii) any steps taken to reduce spend in this area following the publication of the Centre for Homelessness Impact October 2024 report Spending on Temporary…
Does the Member acknowledge that it was not a hugely significant amount and that it was even less significant given that the threshold had fallen significantly with the migration of so many people to universal credit?