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.
Minister, you said that you did not have enough to cover the shortfall this year. You also said that difficult decisions would have to be made. One decision that you have flirted with and talked about is reviewing how our rates system works and taking a broader look at how we might raise revenue and use new fiscal…
I join everyone else who has paid sincere and fulsome tribute to Anna Lo on her passing. I extend the condolences of the SDLP and me to her family, including her partner, Robert, her two sons and her grandchildren, and to her colleagues in the Alliance Party, who will be feeling her loss most acutely, having stood…
Mr O'Toole asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister what they and the Executive Office have done specifically to tackle the growing scourge of racism in this society since we gathered here in August to express our horror, outrage and revulsion at the race hate that we saw on the streets of Belfast.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to AQW 15328/22-27, for a timeline for the current review of the Together: Building a United Community Strategy.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for a breakdown of the money available through Student Finance NI as part of the maintenance loan and grant, broken down by household income for each of the last ten years.
To ask the Minister of Justice whether the outstanding recommendations of the Gillen Review in relation to reform of the reasonable belief defence in sexual assault and abuse trials will be implemented during the 2022-2027 mandate.
To ask the Minister of Justice whether the outstanding recommendations of the Gillen Review in relation to education for juries will be implemented during the 2022-2027 mandate.
To ask the Minister of Justice whether misogyny or gender-based hate will be included as a category of hate crime in planned upcoming reform of hate crime legislation.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the annual amounts of maintenance loan and grant available through student finance to students, dependent on family income, in the last ten years.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in relation to his Department's social inclusion strategies, to detail the amount spent to prepare and create the (i) Gender Strategy; and (ii) Sexual Orientation Strategy.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the thoroughfares in Belfast which have generated the greatest rates revenue for Land and Property Services in each of the last five years.
I very much appreciate the Minister's giving way. I want to ask about the broader question of reform, including removing the veto and stopping this institution collapsing. Earlier this year, the First Minister and the former Finance Minister, Conor Murphy — the Minister's colleague — said that they were up for a…
I am happy to be accused of ranting but I want to ask something specific since we are having a debate about achieving things. The Member's party put out a response to the Programme for Government yesterday. Why did none of that response, which was made public, call for specific, measurable reform proposals to be in…
I beg to move Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Audit Office's update report on the implementation of recommendations from the RHI inquiry and on the broader subject of improved accountability and, indeed, reform of Stormont and its institutions. When I became an MLA…
I acknowledge that bad decisions are made in London — it is important that I say that — but that cannot be all that we talk about in the Chamber. We have to talk about the power that you have to improve the lives of workers, families and businesses in the North. Let us be clear that you have the power to review the…
Minister, your answer to Mr Brett threw up more questions. You said that the decisions have not been taken, but, if projects and bids are being taken off the table by the board — by the way, the board includes the permanent secretary of the Northern Ireland Office, which is pretty dubious when it comes to devolution —…
I will briefly touch on the subject that much of the world is focused on: the outcome of the US presidential election. In many ways, this segment of our day — Members' Statements — is for people to talk, as Nuala McAllister just did, about important local constituency issues. However, I want to reflect on something…
Mr O'Toole asked the Minister of Finance, taking at face value what she said about there being a negative Barnett consequential, which will have the effect of reducing the block grant, from the business rates measures in England, yet acknowledging that it seems bizarre that the Treasury red book scores a £1·7 billion…
Breaches of the Ministerial Code of Conduct That this Assembly condemns the refusal by DUP Ministers to attend North South Ministerial Council (NSMC) meetings in 2021, obstructing essential cross-border cooperation and defying the Good Friday Agreement; acknowledges the findings of the Assembly Commissioner for…
Future EU Relationship That this Assembly notes the beginning of the democratic consent process; calls for the Executive to continue their efforts to operate the Protocol/Windsor Framework as smoothly as possible; further calls on the Secretary of State to ensure that any independent review into the functioning of the…
Universal, Affordable Child-centred Childcare That this Assembly recognises the provision of affordable and child-centred childcare as a key piece of social and economic infrastructure; acknowledges the impact that rising childcare costs are having on families; further acknowledges the funding challenges faced by…