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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 flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any review was undertaken of the Strategic Planning and Performance Group’s (i) role; (ii) capacity; and (iii) effectiveness, in relation to elective care, prior to the appointment of the Regional Clinical Director for Elective Care.
I appreciate the Chair's giving way. He mentioned some of the implementation difficulties, so I wanted to ask something at this stage. I chair the Finance Committee. That Committee has established that the Bill will cost about £20 million to £25 million per year. My party strongly supports the principles of the Bill,…
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. On behalf of the Opposition, I would be grateful for guidance from the Speaker's Office on the decision of the Speaker or a Deputy Speaker to interrupt a Member who is asking a question. On several occasions today, official Opposition Members were noticeably curtailed in asking…
Minister, you are very welcome to the role. This is the first time that I have asked you a question in your new role, so the best of luck to you. Specifically on paediatric palsy, I am aware of a case involving a family who have had real issues around pathways for paediatric facial palsy. I have written to you about…
I am not being negative. I am not deflecting from the obstruction by the DUP, which does exist, or the financial challenges, which do exist. Challenges exist for all Governments, but my job as leader of the Opposition is to hold you and the Executive collectively responsible. In 2022, very clear promises were made,…
First Minister, I have no issue with your going to Cardiff to engage with Scotland and Wales; I commend it in relation to constitutional conversations. However, no First Minister or Finance Minister in Scotland or Wales has ever refused to set a Budget halfway through a financial year — in the age of devolution, that…
That was a major structural failing. Can you confirm whether anyone in your Department saw or read that judgement before you came to the House last Tuesday, 15 September?
— that the Prison Service refused, it says, to reconsider the grounds for its objection to compassionate temporary release. That was why the judge felt that they had to uphold the judicial review.
Minister, tone matters. A family is traumatised by what has happened, and a murderer is at large. Whatever the tone of Members opposite, you are the responsible and accountable Minister, so your tone matters too. Let me remind you of that, Minister. I will ask a question specifically on the judgement. You answered a…
I do not normally pay all that much attention to the DUP conference. I offer my condolences to my colleagues on the opposite Benches, and I hope that they had an enjoyable and productive weekend. This weekend, however, I could not help but notice some of what was emerging from the DUP conference. Any political party…
Mr O'Toole asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, given that the First Minister said last week that the proposed additional pay rise for MLAs is "grotesque", and given that it is true to say that the public are appalled by proposed pay rises for this place when they are facing huge increases in the cost…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the respective responsibilities of (i) his Department; (ii) the Strategic Planning and Performance Group; (iii) Health and Social Care Trusts; and (iv) the Regional Clinical Director for Elective Care, in relation to (a) elective care; (b) waiting list recovery; and (c)…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the (i) statutory; (ii) commissioning; (iii) performance management; (iv) planning; and (v) oversight, functions of the Strategic Planning and Performance Group, in relation to (a) elective care; and (b) waiting list management.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail whether the appointment of the Regional Clinical Director for Elective Care represents (i) additional capacity; (ii) a transfer of functions previously undertaken by the Strategic Planning and Performance Group: and (iii) the assumption of functions that were previously not…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) the cost of running the Enterprise train service; (ii) the number of passengers using the service; and (iii) the revenue raised, for each of the last five years.