All of Mr Matthew O'Toole’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 (i) the amount of funding dispersed through the Sandy Row revitalisation scheme; and (ii) the number of businesses that benefitted.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for his assessment of the impact of fallen redwood trees in Belvoir Park Forest, on the accessibility of the forest paths.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the annual spending on maintenance at Belvoir Park Forest, for the last five years.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for her assessment of the announced four per cent rise in electricity tariffs for 119,000 customers in Northern Ireland, expected in January 2026.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any guidance his Department has for early-intervention for boys who (i) bully, control or threaten others; (ii) show cruelty to animals; (iii) regularly exhibit misogynistic behaviour, sexual aggression or coercion in relationships.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of (i) primary; and (ii) secondary, schools that (a) have; and (b) do not have, mental health services for children and young people.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail whether his Department has considered adopting programmes like Safe Dates and Coaching Boys Into Men, to help address misogyny and violence against women and girls in schools.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any external meetings he has had in relation to the review of the licensing system provided for in the 2021 Licensing Act, since February 2024.
Minister, I am slightly at a loss. Your colleague the Finance Minister and you were not impressed by my asking about mismanagement of the capital budget. However, you have just said that there is not enough money for NI Water. You have just handed back £140 million in unspent capital to the centre in this monitoring…
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I will be brief. Earlier, during the debate, I described the underspend of a quarter of a billion pounds as "criminal". The Minister implied that I said that a criminal act had literally taken place; I did not. Just to be clear, the Oxford English Dictionary is clear that, in…
Thank you, Minister. Many of the allocations will, of course, be welcome — they always are — but surely you must acknowledge that this monitoring round is an example of criminal financial mismanagement. We are three months from the end of the financial year. Despite everything that you say about not getting enough…
We hold every party here to account. Mr Frew talked about "a zombie Assembly" during COVID, but his party then collapsed the Assembly for two years after that. How much more "zombie" can you get?
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. It is one of the final motions before we break up for Christmas, and, in many ways, it is fitting because, since we came back in February last year after our two-year forced absence — forced by one party, as it had been forced by…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the number of times the Executive has discussed a multi-year budget, since February 2024.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail whether he is taking any steps to prioritise integrated schools, which lost Fresh Start funding, in his Department's major capital works programme.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of meetings he has had with (i) the Campaign for Real Ale; and (ii) independent brewers, in relation to the surrender principle, in the last 18 months.