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 total cost of the provision of taxis and other public transport for emergency housing applicants in the last 12 months, broken down by local council area.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) when the first Housing Supply Strategy Action Plan will be released; (ii) the organisations that will be involved in its development; and (iii) how it will be informed by lived experience of homelessness.
I thank the Minister for that answer. It is heartening to hear that that high percentage of exemption certificates has been issued. However, only 140 of those dogs were registered in March 2024, and, come the end of December, there were almost 700. Given that increase in the number of registrations in that short…
I ask the Minister whether it remains the case that the Executive are not in line to get one-off Treasury funding of up to £240 million for the unforeseen and unavoidable costs arising from the PSNI data leak? Does that, along with the pressures that the Minister has outlined, mean that the PSNI's ambition — indeed,…
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 19152/22-27, to detail the cost of unoccupied publicly-owned land and buildings to each Department, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the total number of (i) full time; and (ii) part-time preschool places in each of the last five years, broken down by constituency.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) for his assessment of the rising number of empty homes, which currently stands at 21,081; and (ii) whether his Department will commit to conducting an analysis of the underlying causes of these increases in each local council area.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether his Department will ensure the views of the community, within the immediate vicinity of the Ulster University Magee campus, will be sought and taken into account to minimise any disruption arising from the University’s expansion.
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on the work of the cross-departmental Coordinated Action Group established by the Mental Health Champion to consider crisis services and suicide prevention in Derry.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) why the individual vehicle approval height requirement for Class B drivers in Northern Ireland is set at 50mm higher than in England; and (ii) whether there are plans to review this standard to align with other regions.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) when the gritting schedule was last reviewed; and (ii) whether he will commit to maintaining a list of roads which are added to the schedule each year.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any measures being taken to ensure that adequate resources are in place to provide care packages for elderly patients, therefore enabling timely discharge from hospitals, improving access to beds and preventing unnecessarily prolonged hospital stays.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail gynaecology waiting lists, including (i) total number of patients waiting; and (ii) average waiting times, in each of the last three years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 19424/22-27, to provide clarity on the difference between this figure of vacant properties and the 52,300 vacant households recorded in Census 2021.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether there are any plans to review the Sunday Trading (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 to allow larger shops to open before 1:00pm.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any steps being taken to address concerns in relation to the use of LED lights on vehicles, particularly in terms of the potential dangers they pose to oncoming drivers, including glare and reduced visibility.