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 Health to detail the number of people diagnosed with a learning disability that are currently waiting to be allocated a social worker, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 21075/22-27, when the £13 million investment announced in October 2024 to deliver additional short break provision for young people will be delivered.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 21519/22-27, to detail the longest period of time any of the 909 classroom assistants working in Northern Ireland have been without an Access NI check.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he will undertake a review of the current processes for allocating funding to schools for unavoidable minor works.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 21078/22-27, to detail the specific work he has undertaken in collaboration with the Minister of Education to benchmark how many allied health professionals of each discipline are required to support learners with special educational needs and disabilities in all school…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 21078/22-27, whether he plans to deliver a joint workforce strategy with the Minister of Education to deliver the appropriate number of allied health professionals required to support special educational needs learners.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 21519/22-27, to detail the processes in place to ensure (i) that child safeguarding risk assessments are carried out when a classroom assistant is engaged by a school without a completed Access NI check; and (ii) these staff are supervised at all times.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 21624/22-27, to detail how many centres other than schools previously covered by the Education Authority's license with the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme are now required to become directly licensed centres to deliver the Duke of Edinburgh Award or President's Award…
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 21625/22-27, and in light of licensing changes to the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, to detail the number of young people already engaged on a Duke of Edinburgh or President's Award Scheme in a setting other than a school previously covered by the Education…
In correspondence from the Minister's Department, the Education Committee recently learned that the number of allied health professionals (AHPs) available to the education system is not known. However, a workforce strategy does not appear to be a year 1 action in the Minister's new delivery plan for special…
I thank the Minister for his answer. The Minister will be aware of certain housing schemes where the influence of paramilitarism is really significant, such as Weavers Grange in Newtownards. Clanmil Housing has long been dealing with ongoing issues and managing the influence of paramilitarism there. Will the Minister…
The failure to secure a settlement on teachers' pay over the past number of days represents a genuine crisis point for our education system. Following the restoration of the institutions and the delivery of a pay deal last year, we should have been building on a platform of trust to restore relations. It is deeply…
Mr Mathison asked the Minister for Communities to outline what support his Department provides to housing associations in Northern Ireland to deal with the impact of paramilitarism on their housing schemes.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 21519/22-27, to detail the longest period of time that a classroom assistant currently working in a school has spent without a valid Access NI check in place.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for an update on the scoping work required to identify the needs of the childcare sector to support the development of a targeted business support scheme.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure when surveys of the Pound Street overpass, Comber, will commence to assess the structural works required to make it safe.
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 10374/22-27, to detail the number of vacancies currently identified within the Occupational Health Service following the recruitment exercise in May 2024 for (i) medical officers; (ii) nursing staff; and (iii) Occupational Health Technicians.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of staff that have been awaiting an Occupational Health Service medical assessment for more than six weeks.
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 10374/22-27, for an update on the procurement of a new IT system to better manage the Occupational Health Service.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. We could summarise what has happened in the debate by saying that there has been broad agreement in the Chamber, from the signatories to the motion — I thank them for tabling it — to the Members who spoke to the DUP amendment, as well as from the Minister. There is not a lot between…