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.
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To ask the Minister of Finance to outline when he will make provision through regulations, for procedures to be followed when pooling resources, as part of The Children's Services Co-Operation Act (Northern Ireland) 2015.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 31391/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 31391/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 30087/22-27, to detail (i) the nine special educational needs transformation projects to be delivered using the funding received from the Interim Public Services Transformation Board; (ii) the cost breakdown of each of these individual projects; and (iii) the intended…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 31392/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 31392/22-27
I thank the Minister for that comprehensive answer. Will she outline how those proposals fit within the wider work that she is undertaking to protect people from sexually motivated behaviours and the work on the eradication of violence against women and girls?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any plans they have to coordinate cross-departmental engagement to deliver cross-cutting legislation on post-19 special educational needs provision.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 31240/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 31240/22-27
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any plans they have to coordinate a cross-departmental approach to post-19 special educational needs provision.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 31239/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 31239/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how he will ensure that funding allocated to special schools in order to provide summer schemes will be secured and delivered in a timely fashion ahead of summer 2026, to allow schools to appropriately plan and recruit staff for the schemes.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 31243/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 31243/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will be providing funding for the provision of summer schemes in special schools for summer 2026.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 31242/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 31242/22-27
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the membership of the cross-departmental Children and Young People’s Strategy Monitoring and Reporting Board.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 31241/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 31241/22-27
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I thank all Members for their contributions to the debate. There has been a lot of openness to take interventions and to go through the issues in considerable detail. That has helped the debate and the considerations that are now before us. First, I want to highlight the phrase that the Minister…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. I know that he was keen to make a wee bit of progress in the debate. As a point of clarity, though, does the Member accept that it was never proposed at Committee that a number would be put into primary legislation, but simply the principle of whether it must be done or not? That is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Minister for his intervention. That was an issue. He will know that the Committee discussed at length what an appropriate level of prescription in primary legislation is. The Committee ultimately landed on the position that, while it is not the job of primary legislation to write the guidelines, such an…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Member for her intervention. The gendered aspect of the cost was one of the repeated themes that came through to the Committee. The evidence received indicated that girls' uniforms are often more expensive than boys' uniforms. Therefore, providing some choice in that space would have had a cost impact as…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Although Peter Martin may have been disappointed that the tone of the debate was a bit more negative than he would have liked, it has been clear that everybody in the Chamber is on the same page on at least one issue, which is that we need to do something about the cost of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. That is noted. I will come directly to a question to the Minister on that point. Do you not accept that, in an engagement with a school about a failure in a material respect to adhere to the guidelines, it is a different conversation if the school knows that the Department…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Minister for giving way. Just to —.
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I thank the Minister for giving way again. He has been very generous by giving way on numerous occasions. I want to clarify a couple of points on amendment Nos 9 and 10. The distinction that was made about the use of "must" in clause 7(1)(a) was drawn because, as a Committee, we felt that, if a school was, in a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Minister for giving way. Will the Minister help us to understand why they have waited until 15 September, the day of the debate, to highlight those specific concerns, given that the Committee reported on the Bill at the beginning of July? There would have been ample opportunity at that stage. I appreciate…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Minister for giving way. I do not think that any Member would object were the Department to take the sensible approach of disaggregating primary and post-primary costs in any report that it brought to the Assembly. I do not think that the amendment precludes the Department from doing that. Is there an…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Minister for giving way. Just before you move on to the amendments, Minister, I want to go back to the point about the process and the timelines and the fact that you are confident of the fact that, once the Bill passes all its stages, schools will be clear on their responsibilities. Do you have a view on…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. Does he agree that the Bill contains quite a lead-in process before the Department would be in the space of issuing a direction, that there is capacity to engage with the school manager on the issue and that one would have to ask a question if, despite that engagement, the school…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
Apologies.
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I thank the Member for giving way. Apologies: I did not realise that you were bringing your remarks to a close. You made a statement that the scope of the Bill is to bring down costs, but the Bill also refers to other issues, particularly comfort and practicality. I would like to hear why you feel that that the Bill…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
Thank you for giving way. In relation to the issue of publishing directions that are made, do you agree that that would deliver a more effective deterrent and that schools would be much more likely to roll the dice around whether to comply with the guidelines if they knew that there was a sanction that could impact on…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. Does he agree that any attempt to dilute the amendments that the Committee has tabled on the enforceability of the directions and on openness and transparency around them will not inspire confidence in how serious the Department or the Minister is about ensuring that the guidelines…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Consideration Stage
With your permission, I will make some comment on the Committee Stage of the School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill before speaking directly to the first group of amendments. The Committee ran a robust scrutiny stage despite the constrained timescales imposed on it, and I will give a brief overview of how…
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