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 of Health whether his Department has evaluated the specialist workforce required to meet the needs of babies, children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs, including Auditory Verbal therapists.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department plans to support the work already being done to ensure all deaf children have the opportunity to access Auditory Verbal therapy through local teachers of the deaf.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has made an assessment of the need for early and effective support, including Auditory Verbal therapy, to develop language and communication for deaf children.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of households in the private rented sector that are in receipt of Local Housing Allowance, through (i) universal credit housing costs; and (ii) housing benefit.
I thank the Minister for her answer. Does she have a time frame for when she expects her study on the cost of doing business to be completed? Today's statement was trailed as being urgent; what businesses need to see is urgent action.
The Minister said that we should all encourage people to use public transport, and I point out the improved services to Derry, where all shoppers' needs can be met. The Minister said that having taxis use bus lanes is not universally popular, and he is right. It could slow down buses as well as potentially compromise…
In the Minister's answers, he outlined a range of initiatives and interventions by his Department and the Department of Education on this very important issue. In all my time here, I have rarely, if ever, come across a project as well received and well regarded as the Happy Healthy Minds project. Has the Minister been…
I thank the Minister for the statement, and I look forward to studying the strategy. The strategy must be ambitious, but it must be achievable. Without detail and certainty on the funding of social housing new builds; sustained investment in our water and waste water infrastructure, which is currently stifling…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the rationale for requiring an unlawful assembly of three or more people to meet the eligibility criteria for compensation for criminal damage; (ii) whether there are plans to review this criterion; and (iii) any alternative routes of compensation that are available for…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the total cost of managing the environmental risk at the Mobuoy site in the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the loopholes that will be closed as part of the recently announced welfare mitigations extension; and (ii) which claimants will benefit from these changes.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 17988/22-27, for a breakdown of where (i) the allocation for structural maintenance of roads and street lighting; and (ii) the £19.5 million to release wastewater constraints, will be spent, broken down by constituency.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of additional, publicly-accessible, electric vehicle charge points and rapid charge points since April 2023, broken down by local council area.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of (i) construction; and (ii) commercial projects that have been lost due to issues with wastewater infrastructure in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the average; and (ii) the longest wait for first consultant-led neurology appointments in each Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of patients on neurology waiting lists in each of the last three years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he will consider establishing a model whereby women who undergo a dilation and curettage procedure following a miscarriage, or who experience a stillbirth, are provided access to a separate birthing suite or placed in a separate ward to avoid the added trauma of being near…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 6197/22-27, for an update on any further engagement with Ronald McDonald House Charities in relation to the establishment of accommodation for sick children and their families.
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 17081/22-27, to detail the (i) topics discussed at; and (ii) duration of, each of the three meetings of the Homelessness Strategy Steering Group in 2024.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I welcome the opportunity to close the debate on the motion. I thank everyone who contributed to it and reaffirm the SDLP's long-standing commitment to establishing an all-island rail network that meets the needs of a modern society while addressing entrenched regional disparities.…
Minister, I have been in touch with you about the plight of businesses on Foyle Street in my constituency that have suffered hugely due to protracted works by Northern Ireland Water in the area and are seeking relief on their rates bills. The process of revaluation is intrusive, exhausting and expensive for those…