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 the Economy (i) to outline the amount of funding that will be allocated in the 2025-26 financial year, to support the review of post-school (a) education; (b) skills; and (c) training provision for individuals with special educational needs; and (ii) to clarify what educational or support…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of individuals migrating to Universal Credit that have incurred an overpayment in the last five years; and (ii) what steps are being taken to prevent such overpayments in the future.
To ask the Minister of Finance to outline whether the Barnett Consequentials arising from the UK Government’s £13.2 billion Warm Homes Plan will be ringfenced to tackle fuel poverty.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps which are being taken to improve the (i) availability; and (ii) accessibility, of temporary accommodation for applicants who are wheelchair users or have limited mobility.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail a breakdown of costs for taxi and bus transport provided for school pupils for each of the last five years, broken down by constituency.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any measures which are in place to ensure efficient use of resources relating to taxi and bus provision for transport to school, particularly in cases where pupils from the same street are being transported separately.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to outline (i) when the traffic signals at (a) Bradleys Pass; and (b) the Buncrana Road and Springtown Road intersection, in the Foyle constituency, were installed; and (ii) whether the traffic signals were both installed by the same contractor.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) the number of faults recorded; and (ii) the costs for repair to the traffic signals at Bradleys Pass in the Foyle constituency, since their installation.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether her Department will consider introducing legislation to regulate private parking firms operating in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail how the £100 million Reinvestment and Reform Initiative Borrowing for social housing outlined in the Programme for Government earmarked allocations is allocated within the Department for Communities Budget 2025-26.
I thank the Minister for his statement. The scrapping of that disastrous policy by the UK Government will, of course, be warmly received by pensioners, but it is cold comfort to the many thousands of working-age householders who live in cold homes. The Department's own modelling showed that, in 2022, over a quarter of…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for an update on the restructuring of red flag breast services; and (ii) whether it is delivering improved outcomes for patients in the Western health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline the total amount spent on security staff at each Housing Executive local office, for each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline what security and safeguarding measures are in place for Housing Executive staff, particularly frontline staff dealing with homelessness presentations.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any consideration he is giving to introducing a dedicated outreach programme for pension-age individuals, to ensure they are accessing their benefit entitlements.
The statistics tell the story only when it suits the narrative. Will the Minister commit to meeting Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, which recently received the shattering news that it is to lose 100% of its funding, and other arts organisations in the north-west to hear their concerns and improve his understanding of…
Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank the Minister for his statement. We will support his efforts to ensure remediation of the Mobuoy site and the removal of the risk that it poses to the environment and to human health, as well as to the block that it has put on the completion of the A6. While…
I rise today not just as a public representative but as a father, a son and a human being who is horrified and terrified at what is unfolding in front of our eyes. I cannot and will not remain silent in the face of such injustice and inhumanity. The overnight Israeli interception of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition,…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the average waiting time for red flag breast assessments; and (ii) the number of patients on a red flag waiting list in each of the last five years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he will consider supporting additional breast clinic capacity, previously provided by the Western Health and Social Care Trust to support other regions.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the estimated remediation and clean-up costs for the Mobuoy site in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) whether individuals can submit compensation claims for damage caused by potholes that have been spray-painted or marked for repair; or (ii) whether such markings remove liability before repairs are carried out.