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.
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. What a useful and interesting debate we have had on the first motion of our SDLP Opposition day on job creation and cross-border cooperation in the north-west. There have been lots of constructive comments and a little bit of sniping. That is fine. We are the Opposition, and we…
I welcome our year 11 students from Methody, as Kate said. I welcome the upgrading of any cycle lane, and the one on the Stranmillis embankment is well used. However, it is an existing embankment that is well used, and we are spending scarce resources closing it down, when there are other active travel opportunities…
I appreciate the Member's giving way; he is always generous in giving way. If the protocol and the Windsor framework are so bad for the Northern Ireland economy, why have we generally outperformed the UK economy consistently since Brexit?
Minister, it is welcome that we have clarity on the public-sector transformation board after more than a year. The purpose of this ring-fenced money, however, which is a one-off, was to make interventions that are genuinely transformational and cost-saving. On reading the allocations, as legitimate and clearly welcome…
To ask the Minister of Finance, in line with the recommendations within the Programme for Government 2024-2027, when the membership of the public-sector transformation board will be confirmed.
I appreciate the deputy First Minister's giving way; I enjoy a bit of banter with her. It is up to her and the First Minister if they want to put my photograph in the document. They have used the same photograph of Donegall Quay in Belfast three times, so they may want to find another one, but that is fair enough. I…
I appreciate the Member's giving way in the spirit of our being constructive. She is right about the silo thing, which is one of the most pernicious things in our politics. A couple of years ago, there was a recommendation to change the ministerial code or introduce a law — a duty of obligation for Departments to work…
I asked that question, First Minister, because, from the look of the Programme for Government document, which shows zero progress on Casement — it has exactly the same language as in the draft Programme for Government — zero progress on the Irish language, DUP/Tory bodies such as the East-West Council and Intertrade…
I am pleased, junior Minister, that there will be a refugee integration strategy. I acknowledge that as progress. The Programme for Government, however, contains, by my count, seven or eight words on tackling racism. After not just the violence that we saw last summer in Belfast but the attack at the weekend, people…
I associate myself with the welcome to the Ceann Comhairle, Verona Murphy. More than 1,000 days since the election and nearly 400 days after the Executive were formed, we have the first Programme for Government since 2011. I was in my 20s then: I am in my 40s now, so that gives a sense of how long we have been…
Mr O'Toole asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether they agree with the deputy leader of the Alliance Party, who said over the weekend that the deputy First Minister was responsible for causing delays and blocking progress in the Executive.
To ask the Minister of Justice, in line with the Programme for Government 2024-2027, whether the Tackling Paramilitarism Programme has been extended to March 2027.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any engagement her Department has had with the PSNI in relation to (i) the positive impact of alleygating in designing-out antisocial behaviour; and (ii) the potential for further funding for Belfast City Council to install more gates.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in line with the Programme for Government 2024-2027 and New Decade, New Approach, whether she intends to expand the Ulster University’s Magee campus to accommodate 10,000 students by the end of the 2022-2027 mandate.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, in light of her decision to not extend the Belfast Rapid Transport Phase 2 to Carryduff, to detail any actions her Department will take to increase bus service provision.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the number of Executive discussions on the Programme for Government have taken place (i) since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024; and (ii) since the publication of the draft Programme for Government in September 2024.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any engagement she has had with the Minister for Communities in relation to the Sexual Orientation Strategy during the 2022-2027 mandate.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the number of meetings she or her predecessors have had on issues facing frontier workers on the island of Ireland during the 2022-2027 mandate; and (ii) whether any proposals are being produced in relation to this issue.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether businesses affected by racist attacks in August 2024 will be encouraged to avail of the recent £200,000 funding announcement on the same terms as the other businesses.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the total (i) Capital DEL; and (ii) Resource DEL provided to the Executive budget in each of the last ten years.