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,pursuant to AQW 26830/22-27, whether he plans to undertake a review of the effectiveness of the Education Authority's Specialist Settings Support Team, as recommended in the November 2024 Education and Training Inspectorate report on Specialist Provision in Mainstream Schools.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any support the Education Authority's Specialist Setting Support Team provides to specialist settings in schools.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail: (i) how many applications were made for the Pathway Fund 2025/26; (ii) how many applications were awarded funding.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 27098/22-27, if he will publish costings for the actions contained within the Special Educational Needs Reform Delivery Plan.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 26753-22-27, to detail: (i) how many specialist settings the planned 63 staff within the Education Authority's Specialist Settings Support Team currently support; (ii) how many they will be required support from September 2025.
I thank the Minister for his answer. Can he provide any more detail on how far the June monitoring allocations will go to alleviate the pressures that he referenced from employers' National Insurance contributions in the public sector?
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on what he is doing to provide more flexibility for schools to make purchases of equipment and materials when they can secure better value than Education Authority approved suppliers.
To ask the Minister of Education if there are plans to remove the Education Authority (EA)'s Essential Car User Allowance payment for staff from the EA Special Education Needs Transition Service.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will increase the priority level applied to the minor works project to deliver a multi-purpose hall for St Francis' Primary, Drumaroad, to reflect that the modular unit housing the dining facility may need replaced.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 25078/22-27, when the phased, costed operational plan which will sit behind the Special Educational Needs Reform Delivery Plan will be published.
I thank the Member for giving way. I had hoped that the Minister would let me come in. I want to be clear that we accept that access to mobile phones in the classroom and throughout the school day will not have a positive influence on pupils and that we need to find ways around that. While you are on the topic of the…
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will establish a steering group to pilot and act on examples of provision which can meet the needs of pupils who present with significantly challenging behaviour, as recommended in the Education and Training Inspectorate report 'An Evaluation of the Provision to meet the…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how his Department has delivered on the recommendations of the Education and Training Inspectorate report 'An Evaluation of the Provision to meet the Needs of Pupils with Persistent and Challenging Behaviour in Special Schools 2012-13'.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 26142/22-27, to outline what recommendations in the report from the Review on the Use of Temporary and Substitute Teachers (i) have been actioned; and (ii) require additional resources.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 15912/22-27 and AQO 1108/22-27, for an update on any plans he has to expand interventions as part of the Early Intervention Transformation Programme to pre-school and nursery school settings which enroll Children Looked After.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the work that has been completed to date by her Department on the development of a targeted business support scheme for the childcare sector.
Can the Minister provide an update on the identification of an agreed site for mid Down integrated college and on the ongoing progress to deliver that project?