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Mr Matthew O'Toole: Assembly records
All of Mr Matthew O'Toole’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Minister, I appreciate that you have come here with prepared remarks about the DUP. I am no fan of the DUP, and I well know how venal and self-interested it can be. However, you are a Minister accountable to the Assembly. I did not support that motion. My party was never going to support it; we agree with many of the…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any assessment that has been made of whether there is any correlation between areas affected by racially-motivated disorder and areas in which loyalist paramilitaries exert coercive control.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any plans for providing additional funding to implement the provisions of the Education (Holiday Meal Payments) Bill (NIA Bill 27/22-27).
Minister, it is clear that that work is a priority, and the transformation funding reflects that. As you just said, however, collaboration among partners, including the legal profession, is critical to getting waiting times down. Further to questions asked earlier, is it a problem that your relationship with the…
At a time when public-sector workers and everybody else are having to fill up their cars and heat their homes while paying crushing energy prices, they need clarity. As the Opposition, we agree that the Executive should get the maximum funding from the British Government — we have never quibbled with that — but it is…
Mr O'Toole asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, after stating that, amidst the political rows about extraneous matters and the toxic division here, public-sector workers still do not know, because there is no Budget, when they will get a pay rise and that, in the South, such workers are striking and…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any impact that contingency spending arrangements, in the absence of an agreed Executive Budget, will have on (i) staffing levels; (ii) recruitment; and (iii) the filling of vacancies, within his Department and associated arm’s-length bodies.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any impact that the absence of an agreed budget is having on internal improvement plans within his Department.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any actions that have been taken in relation to the recommendations of the Leng review and the Department of Health’s review into the role of physician associates.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the latest date by which public sector pay awards must be agreed in order to be included in the December payroll cycle.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any measures his Department has in place to support (i) staff motivation and wellbeing; and (ii) the stability of temporary and agency staff during periods of budgetary constraint.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any engagement his Department has had with short-term let hosting platforms to ensure short-term lets, which are let for over 140 nights, pay the correct non-domestic rate.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any steps his Department is taking to ensure short-term lets, which are let for over 140 nights, pay the correct non-domestic rate.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any engagement she has had with short-term let hosting platforms, regarding the monitoring and enforcement of correct planning permissions.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any steps she is taking to enforce planning law for short-term lets operating without the appropriate planning permission.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the current length of time it takes to process a planning complaint regarding an unauthorised short-term holiday let.
I did not intend to speak, because I probably speak enough in general in here, and I have spoken a lot today. However, because it is an Opposition motion — my colleague Mark Durkan will deliver the winding-up speech in a few minutes — and having experienced so much as a constituency MLA of the awfulness of what is…
Minister, as has been said, the area is part of our constituency in which there is a huge amount of developer-led development. The public have to put up with a lot of disruption, but there are also real concerns about road safety, as the Member who spoke previously mentioned. I welcome the confirmation that you have…
I thank the Member for giving way. I do not know specifically what contradictions the Member is talking about, but, just to clarify on the line that says, "continued political disagreement" not being "a barrier to necessary reform", we are endeavouring to say that, where political disagreement should end or cease is…