All of Mrs Michelle Guy’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 there are any guidelines in place for GPs to prescribe medication recommended by a private specialist consultant.
To ask the Minister of Health, following the publication of the Cervical Cytology Review reports in December 2024, whether he will agree to a statutory public inquiry.
I thank the Minister for his statement. I welcome the consultation on serious adverse incidents. My constituents report to me that their issue is the fact that they do not feel heard and that it takes years for them to get any response. Will that actually change as a result of the consultation exercise?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any action he is taking to address the paediatric waiting list for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy surgery.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of children on the waiting list for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy surgery, broken down by month in the last two years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) the schools that have been formally consulted as part of developing the End to End Review of Special Educational Needs; (ii) the number Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators involved in its production; and (iii) the number of families and young people formally consulted.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) any actions his Department has taken under goal 2.1 of the Sport and Physical Activity Strategy; and (ii) any evidence of progress on this goal.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 19171/22-27, (i) to detail the 11 Development Proposals awaiting his decision; and (ii) how long each proposal has been waiting for his decision to be made.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 18006/22-27, to detail the number of referrals to the Education Authority's Educational Psychology Service from a designated medical officer that have been (i) taken forward; and (ii) rejected in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Education, as part of the Curriculum-led Capital Investment Programme, whether schools applying for the outdoor covered sports spaces will have to demonstrate that these facilities will be open to the wider community where it is safe and possible to do so.
To ask the Minister of Education, following the announcement that all post-primary and special schools will receive new desktop computers, (i) whether consideration was given as to when schools last updated desktop computers; and (ii) whether schools were consulted if they needed other hardware instead.
To ask the Minister of Health whether there are plans to upgrade blood sugar sensors used by those with diabetes to ensure they are hybrid closed loop capable.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he has considered a scheme where those with diabetes who are experienced hybrid closed loop (HCL) pump users could act as service ambassadors to provide managed peer support to service users that have just started using HCL pumps.
To ask the Minister of Education whether additional financial support and services for parents with multiples is being considered as part of the Early Learning and Childcare Strategy.
Thank you for the answer. You mentioned that security arrangements are reviewed as and when. Is there a particular time frame within which that happens? Does it happen on a regular basis?
Minister, the Act confers powers on your Department to make regulations to determine how Departments come together to pool resources. Do you intend to make such regulations?
I thank the Minister. I join everybody in welcoming the investment. A recent report said that only 13% of our kids got the recommended amount of physical activity, so this is really worthwhile. Is the Department collecting data on whether schools are delivering the minimum two hours a week of PE to ensure that we have…
Mrs Guy asked the Minister of Finance, given that pooling budgets is a core element of the Children's Services Co-operation Act (Northern Ireland) 2015, whether her Department notes every instance of the pooling of budgets by Departments.