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.
Minister, you referred, as I did in the debate earlier, to the wealth of evidence from local and national academic studies that demonstrates the negative impact of the two-child limit. Since that was published, I have commissioned a research paper into its impact in the North. Despite the Executive's stated commitment…
I beg to move Poverty: the word itself is stigmatised. We other it. It is an issue that affects other eras, other places and other families, but poverty means not being able to afford the basics: food, heating and housing. Child poverty is no longer distant or abstract; it is on our doorstep. It is a lived reality,…
Mr Durkan asked the Minister for Communities, given that residents of the university area in his constituency have concerns about the use of unregulated HMOs and he knows from debate in the Chamber that they are not the only ones, whether he is content that his HMO unit is adequately resourced and sufficiently…
Fairness, Transparency and Reform in School Capital Funding That this Assembly expresses concern regarding the allocation and management of major and minor capital funding for primary and post-primary schools; notes the findings of the Public Accounts Committee’s Inquiry into Managing the Schools' Estate, which…
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 31634/22-27, to detail whether consideration has been given to introducing a primary school counselling programme similar to the Healthy Happy Minds initiative, to help address chronic absenteeism.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether any options have been explored to provide food vouchers to homeless families staying in non-standard, or temporary accommodation, without access to kitchen facilities.
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 30977/22-27, to detail the number of applicants in non-standard accommodation, who have availed of support from Financial Inclusion Managers, in each of the last three years, broken down by local council area.
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 30977/22-27, to detail whether his Department plans to assess (i) the financial hardship experienced by homeless individuals living in non-standard accommodation; and (ii) the extent to which the lack of cooking facilities in this type of accommodation may be…
I thank the Member for giving way. There has been commentary — in fairness, not by the Member, yet — by unionist politicians, including party colleagues of his that demonstrates that it is not just Irish language signage that the DUP is opposed to. A few years ago, I put a proposal to the then Infrastructure Minister…
I would say that this legislative programme is as weak as water, but that would probably give it too much credit. What happened to "Doing What Matters Most" and making government work? It is almost symbolic that this publication has landed after the deadline, typical of the delay and dysfunction that has become a…
Will the Member tell me what Minister Muir has delivered on an independent environmental protection agency that had not previously been done or delivered?
I also express solidarity with the Minister. Parts of Derry city centre at times now resemble the Wild West, with groups of vulnerable individuals drinking and engaging in antisocial behaviour. It is not only putting them at risk; it is impacting negatively on locals, tourists and the local economy. Police have…
Let me be clear: there is no place in our society, or in any democratic society, for threats, intimidation or harassment, especially against those who stand up and step forward to serve the public, and there never was. We may sit on different Benches and stand for different things, and we may disagree, often…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail whether any consideration has been given to ring-fencing additional Barnett consequential funding from the Warm Homes Plan, to tackle fuel poverty.
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 19768/22-27, to detail whether his Department has given any consideration to implementing a scheme similar to the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, to tackle the issue of empty homes.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail whether his Department will review the Houses in Multiple Occupation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, to reconsider the definition of what constitutes a family, with a view to limiting this definition to immediate family members only.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department will consider reviewing the Houses in Multiple Occupation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, to reduce the number of households required to define a property as a house in multiple occupation, from three to two.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 31752/22-27, whether his Department plans to collect information categorising the reasons for hospital appointment cancellations in order to gain a better understanding of the underlying issues.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether data is available on the number of deaths by suicide that occurred in a given year, as opposed to those that were registered in that year.
To ask the Minister of Finance, given the findings of the Simon Community’s recent report, Childhood Adversity and Homelessness in Northern Ireland 'Breaking the Cycle, to detail any plans his Department has to ensure increased resources for homelessness prevention, across all Government Departments.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail whether regular assessments of the (i) quality; and (ii) condition, of temporary accommodation, provided by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive are being conducted.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of injury claims submitted in relation to the Newmarket Street and Orchard Street area in the Foyle Constituency, arising from falls caused by slippery or uneven footpaths; and (ii) any actions being taken to (a) address these issues; and (b) prevent further…