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.
With the greatest of respect, it is in Standing Orders, so I think that it was in order to ask that question. My second point of order relates to the Executive legislation programme, which came out via email to Members of the Assembly on Friday. It is supposed to be the legislation programme for what is left of this…
OK, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. On Thursday, I received a response to a question for written answer that I submitted in February 2024. I asked when a Programme for Government would be published. A draft Programme for Government was published in September last year, and it was finalised in March this year. Standing…
Like others, I express my condolences to the families of Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz, who were murdered at the Heaton Park Hebrew congregation in Manchester in the most grotesque and evil act of antisemitic hatred. There are, as the Member who spoke previously said, no words of context that mitigate,…
Mr O'Toole asked the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, after noting the deputy First Minister's comments on the status of allegations relating to the recent decision by Belfast City Council, given that the allegations are serious and have put a chill across the Irish language community and given in particular…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) an update on the plan to dissolve the Local Government Staff Commission; (ii) when the plan was first proposed; and (iii) the date the Department for Communities is working towards for the dissolution.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail his assessment of the oversight of the functioning of the Local Government Staff Commission, and its value for money.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) the occasions when air pollution readings of high have been recorded in the last five years; and (ii) at which recording sites.
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline his assessment of the effectiveness of the remit of the Local Government Staff Commission for Northern Ireland, in relation to its statutory powers.
I am pleased to speak on the subject. It is one that Mr Brett and I have talked about a lot, and we share some of the same priorities on the city centre. I am glad that he has proposed the debate. The pedestrianisation of Hill Street and the introduction of night buses are all things that we need in order to maximise…
Minister, you talk about careful scrutiny. There are people who wish that you, as Minister, and perhaps your officials had given more careful scrutiny to the planning application that went in. We and the people who want the A5 built would perhaps then not have been in this situation in the first place. Specifically on…
Minister, will the multi-year Budget that you will bring forward, we hope, later this year be produced alongside an investment strategy? The Programme for Government (PFG), which was finalised earlier this year, promised an investment strategy. It is clear that we need one to sit alongside the Programme for Government…
The Committee welcomes the Administrative and Financial Provisions Bill. Such Bills come along once in a while, but we have not had one here for more than a decade. For that reason, this is a more substantial one than most. The Committee sees the proposed new date of 27 March 2026 to end the Committee Stage as a limit…
The Committee welcomes the fact that the Bill has been published, as we did when it was introduced and at Second Stage. In tabling the motion, the Committee sees the new date of 27 March 2026 as a limit rather than a target, and I underline that point for both Bills that we will discuss. I am keen for the Committee…
Mr O'Toole asked the Minister of Finance, after stating that, with little more than 18 months until the end of the mandate, the public are shocked by the lack of delivery on several key projects that have the Minister's fingerprints directly on them, such as the A5 and Casement Park, whether the nearly £200 million in…