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 flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.

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  1. Debate contribution: The Troubles: Irish State Role

    • Private Members' Business

    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…

    Not flagged

  2. Debate contribution: Enabling Access to Justice

    • Ministerial Statements

    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…

    Not flagged

  3. Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    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 —.

    Not analysed

  4. Debate contribution: Waste Water Infrastructure: Investment

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    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…

    Not analysed

  5. Debate contribution: Revenue-raising Streams

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    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…

    Not flagged

  6. Debate contribution: North/South Ministerial Council: Transport

    • Ministerial Statements

    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…

    Not flagged

  7. Debate contribution: North/South Ministerial Council: Transport

    • Ministerial Statements

    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.

    Not flagged

  8. Debate contribution: North/South Ministerial Council: Transport

    • Ministerial Statements

    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…

    Not flagged

  9. Debate contribution: TransformED NI — Transforming Teaching and Learning: A Strategy for Educational Excellence in Northern Ireland

    • Ministerial Statements

    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…

    Not flagged

  10. Debate contribution: Childcare Subsidy Scheme

    • Assembly Business

    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…

    Not flagged

  11. Topical question AQT 1131/22-27

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    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…

    Not flagged

  12. Motion or amendment: Funding for Childcare

    • Motion · Private Members' Motion

    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…

    Not flagged

  13. Motion or amendment: Ambulance Handovers

    • Motion · Private Members' Motion

    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…

    Not flagged

  14. Motion or amendment: The Green Energy Transition

    • Motion · Private Members' Motion

    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…

    Not flagged

  15. Debate contribution: Paramilitary Groups: Transition from Violence and Crime

    • Private Members' Business

    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,…

    Not flagged

  16. Debate contribution: Communities

    • Question for Urgent Oral Answer

    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…

    Not flagged

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