All of Mr Nick Mathison’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 Education, further to the NI Audit Office report Managing the Schools' Estate, whether he will develop a school estate management strategy.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to AQW 28824/22-27, to outline the role the Executive Office has in coordinating cross-departmental engagement to develop cross-cutting legislation on issues of Executive priority.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps he is taking to ensure multiple sclerosis patients receive access to an annual MRI scan to aid with monitoring their condition.
To ask the Minister of Education, further to the findings of the April 2025 report Drawing the Future, to detail any actions he is taking to increase awareness of apprenticeships among children and young people.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any plans he has to bring the inspection of Religious Education under the remit of the Education & Training Inspectorate.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail why the modular classroom at St Francis' Primary School, Drumaroad, damaged by Storm Éowyn in January 2025 is still awaiting repair.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 30308/22-27, whether there are any actions arising from the Review on the Use of Temporary and Substitute Teachers requiring additional resources that he will deliver in this financial year.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 31242/22-27 and AQW 31243/22-27, whether he will consider recurrent funding for summer schemes in special schools to provide certainty to schools and parents.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any actions he has taken on recommendations contained with the Independent Review of Education on (i) religious education; and (ii) collective worship in schools.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 30779/22-27, whether he will publish the findings of the review into Education Authority's capital and minor works maintenance service.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail what actions his Department has taken to identify approaches, which would help to encourage a progressive and welcoming environment for young LGB&T people, as recommended in the departmentally commissioned research Post-primary school experiences of 16-21 year old people who…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail who provided the legal advice preceding his decision to remove the 2019 transgender guidance from the Education Authority.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursant to AQW 30922/22-27, to detail the content of his Department's policy on how best to support transgender pupils in school.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the rationale for removing the Post-primary school experiences of 16-21 year old people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and or transgender, guidance from his Department's website.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for an update on her Department's scoping exercise, undertaken to better understand the needs of the childcare sector.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any plans he has to implement Plans of Action for Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools, similar to Operational Plan 2: 2024-26 Special Schools – Plans of Action.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any plans he has to review the 2007 Core Syllabus for Religious Education, further to the acknowledgement in the Strategic Review of the Northern Ireland Curriculum that there is agreement on the need to review the teaching of Religious Education and to include the teaching…
To ask the Minister of Education to provide an overview of work undertaken by the cross-departmental Children and Young People’s Strategy Monitoring and Reporting Board.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail whether the Education Authority maintain a record of the number of pupils who have been withdrawn from (i) Religious Education; and (ii) collective worship.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he plans to bring the teaching of Religious Education into the work of the Curriculum Taskforce Advisory Committee.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail who is responsible for the oversight of the Programme for Government commitment to improve pathways to appropriate opportunities and improve protections for young people with special educational needs when they leave school.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to outline how they will ensure that all Ministers with a responsibility for improving post-19 provision for young people with special educational needs are held accountable to deliver on this commitment.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to provide their assessment of the most effective way to address issues that require cross-departmental collaboration, such as post-19 special educational needs provision.