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 Communities to detail the number of (i) households; and (ii) individuals placed in non-standard temporary accommodation in each of the last five financial years, including the 2024-25 year to date, broken down by (a) local council area; and (b) household type.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any measures in place to monitor staffing ratios in day opportunities to ensure that service users receive their full care entitlement.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 19771/22-27, for an update on the provision of Givinostat for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he will consider an uplift in the £23,000 annual gross income cap for the Affordable Warmth Scheme to reflect an increase in the National Minimum Wage.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the total number of applications made to Universal Credit; and (ii) the number of applications which took in excess of five weeks to process, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the total number of missed hospital appointments in each of the last five years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health, in light of ongoing postal delays, what steps are being taken to ensure patients are notified of hospital appointments via telephone, text message, or email.
To ask the Minister of Health whether consideration has been given to ensure cancer patients, who are immunosuppressed, are fast-tracked for treatment when presenting at Emergency Departments.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any measures his Department is taking to ensure the effective regulation of Houses in Multiple Occupation, including any issues related to their impact on local communities.
— but the words of the former deputy leader of the DUP. Minister, the statement is titled 'Tackling Fraud and Error', yet there is no mention whatsoever of error in the statement. Will the Minister tell us the cost of error to the public purse and what he is doing to eradicate it?
I thank the Minister for his statement. I agree that fraud in all forms should be tackled, and abuse of the welfare system impacts on all of us. I would, however, love to see the same appetite for tackling the massive multibillion-pound tax evasion and avoidance that also squeeze public services. We oppose the…
I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I rise to propose this motion on the universal credit five-week wait and its inextricable links with illegal moneylending, another hook that paramilitaries — organised crime gangs — use to tighten their grip on our communities. It is a quiet, untold threat that preys on…
To ask the Minister of Health whether he will implement a phased payment approach as part of the backdated Health and Social Care staff payment 2024-25 to accommodate those in receipt of Universal Credit.
To ask the Minister of Health, in relation to the Medicines Regulatory Group, to detail the total number of (i) investigations; (ii) prosecutions; and (iii) pending prosecutions around the unlawful possession, importation, advertisement or supply of unlicensed prescription medicinal products for use in the…
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQO 1353/22-27, for an update on his Department's collaboration with the Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime, specifically work relating to illegal money lending.
I thank the Member who tabled the motion. The SDLP will support it and the Alliance amendment. Both could go further, but not every motion can do everything. My colleague Daniel McCrossan had been working on an amendment that does not seem to have made the cut. In that, we called for a carers' charter, similar to the…
Cuirim ádh mór ar an Aire ina post nua. How will the measures that the Minister outlined in her initial answer benefit the North West Community Wealth Building Partnership and the unique challenges of our region?