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 Infrastructure to detail the amount of funding that will be allocated to the implementation of the All-Island Strategic Rail Review in the 2025-26 Budget.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 12092/22-27, to detail her Department's plans for actions to assist in dealing with trees which pose a risk to property and are located on private land.
I welcome the fact that we are able to debate the motion. The first and most important thing is to locate everything in empathy and solidarity with the victims of Omagh and their needs. The 29 people, plus two unborn children, who were callously murdered that day in the middle of Omagh deserve nothing but justice. The…
Minister, it feels to me that the 16-page statement can be summarised as saying, "It is not me, it is them". Given that you and your party have held the Department for the past 15 years, it is a very sorry position that you now appear to be at open war with the criminal Bar. Is bringing a statement like that to the…
Are you specifically saying that NI Water will have the first call on capital investment going forward? That is the upshot of what you are saying when you say that we will continue to fund it in exactly the same way as we have done through monitoring rounds, dribs and drabs —.
Minister, people hearing you say that we will continue the way we have been doing for the last few years in relation to NI Water will be tearing their hair out. Lough Neagh is an open-air cesspool. Your constituency faces on to it. The previous Sinn Féin Communities Minister promised 100,000 homes in the next 15…
Minister, the Budget sustainability plan sets out revenue-generation plans, some of which involve no ministerial direction or decision, are tiny and, frankly, a bit surreal. They include things such as hospital canteen charges and Ordnance Survey map charges — hardly revolutionary stuff. Indeed, in response to a…
On a point of order, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker, and thank you. I am aware that the rules in Standing Orders oblige Ministers to acknowledge when they have ministerial accompaniment at NSMC meetings, but, in this statement, the same number of words are devoted to Mike Nesbitt attending the meeting as are devoted…
Minister, will you give us clarity on when you will update the House — indeed, when Dáil Éireann will be updated — on the implementation of the all-island strategic rail review? From reading the statement, it seems like it will just be left on a shelf.
Minister, rebuilding and redeveloping our all-island rail network is one of the most inspiring parts of the cross-border agenda. We are supposed to agree on that, but people will be disappointed to see that the statement has just 15 words of a two-page statement on the all-island strategic rail review and simply notes…
Minister, there is lots of interesting stuff in the strategy; the test will be in the delivery. One place that the strategy is not mentioned is in the Programme for Government. There is very little detail, and, in fact, the word "curriculum" is not mentioned in the Programme for Government. How much of today's…
On a point of order, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Yesterday, the Education Minister announced a continuation of the childcare subsidy scheme. The original subsidy scheme was welcome, and my party worked on it with the Minister and the help of parents and others. Also yesterday, the First Minister published entirely…
Mr O'Toole asked the Minister of Finance, given that Lough Neagh is an ecological disaster, we cannot build sufficient social homes and there is a crisis in delivering the economic infrastructure that we need, all of which can be brought back to NI Water not being properly funded, and that he has ruled out water…
Funding for Childcare That this Assembly recognises the significant financial strain that high childcare costs continue to place on families across Northern Ireland; acknowledges that the delivery of affordable childcare is a priority in the Programme for Government; expresses concern on the speed of the roll-out of…
Ambulance Handovers That this Assembly recognises that emergency services play a critical role in providing care to those in urgent need; expresses deep concern at the findings of the Northern Ireland Audit Office March 2025 report on ambulance handovers which outlines how severe delays are putting patient safety at…
The Green Energy Transition That this Assembly notes several commitments in the Programme for Government to upscale renewable energy production; expresses concern that renewable energy generation has fallen annually since 2022; recognises that insufficient renewable energy infrastructure and ineffective planning…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the number of applicants that applied to the Apprenticeship Inclusion Challenge Fund between 30 October 2024 and 6 December 2024.
To ask the Minister for the Economy when her Department expects to complete the Programme for Government 2024-2027 target to expand Ulster University’s Magee campus to accommodate up to 10,000 students.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the projects that will be delivered with the additional £112.6 million capital budget provided to her Department in the 2025-26 Draft Budget.
It sometimes feels that this place is not progressing at all. It can feel a bit bewildering and head-scratching at times for people who are watching from the outside when they are told that armed paramilitary gangs continue to exist and that many of those armed paramilitary gangs are not engaged in active, as it were,…
It is slightly bizarre to hear Members and, indeed, the Minister fall over themselves to say that no Minister was found to be in breach. The Executive were found to be in breach of their legal obligation to produce an anti-poverty strategy. That is shaming for the House. I ask the Minister, who is standing in for his…