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 8804/22-27, (i) when he intends to commission this cross-departmental assessment; and (ii) how long it will take to complete.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 8804/22-27, (i) whether he intends to publish the completed cross-departmental assessment; and (ii) whether any other relevant stakeholders will inform this piece of work.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 8804/22-27, whether he intends to recommend that the Executive publishes a response to the Concluding Observations, as done by the Scottish government.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to provide an update on the actions he has taken since the Adjournment Debate on 12 March 2024 on the A20 Portaferry Road, Newtownards.
Before I begin my remarks, I want to find the one point of agreement that we have had, which is that we should all pay tribute to our Health and Social Care staff, particularly those working in emergency medicine and unscheduled care. They are doing a fantastic job in very difficult circumstances across Northern…
I will raise an issue that is related to SEN placements and connected to workforce. We have a crisis in the provision of educational psychologists and speech and language therapists, without whom the SEN system cannot function. What level of resource will the Minister commit to tackling those issues in the months…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of staff in his Department that have completed the two child rights based training packages which were made available via the NICS training portal in December 2022.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 9871/22-27, how many of the 203 schools that have expressed an interest in facilitating specialist provision classes are (i) primary schools; and (ii) post-primary schools.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 9871/22-27, how many Specialist Provision in a Mainstream School are needed to deliver the required special educational needs places for September 2024 in (i) primary schools; and (ii) post-primary schools.
The Minister will be aware that the news that the money and resource required for the non-teaching staff pay and grading review were not in the Budget was met with widespread dismay among staff who work in that sector. Will the Minister outline how we arrived at a position where resource for that review was not found?…
To ask the Minister of Education (i) for his assessment of the value of the work of Young Enterprise NI; and (ii) whether he will reinstate funding to this organisation.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) for his assessment of the value of the work of Young Enterprise NI; and (ii) whether his Department will consider providing funding to this organisation.
I thank the Minister for his answer. His papers that have been tabled with the Committee detail how there will be conditions that the member must meet to attend a council meeting remotely. Can the Minister advise what those conditions will be?
Mr Mathison asked the Minister for Communities to confirm a time frame for when local government remote meetings regulations will be brought to the Assembly, further to the papers on the issue that were tabled at the Committee for Communities.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail his engagement with the Minister of Education to co-design and co-fund primary school counselling and mental health support.
To ask the Minister of Health what work has been undertaken alongside the Minister of Education to embed mental health support systems in educational institutions.
To ask the Minister of Education what consideration has been given to developing a workforce strategy for the education sector, with an emphasis on attracting specialist STEM teachers into the post-primary sector.
I thank the Minister for giving way. I understand the scale of the challenges in the education system as you have set them out. Anyone sitting in the Education Committee could not argue with anything you said about the challenges, but we also hear from young people that, despite the fact that we have a very…
A wide range of treaties, expert reports and children's rights and safeguarding groups have set out the case for standardised, inclusive, high-quality, evidence-based and age-appropriate relationships and sexuality education. From here on in, I will refer to it as high-quality RSE, as that is quite wordy. A…
I thank the Minister for her answer, which Members across the Chamber will welcome. How many people in Northern Ireland does she anticipate that the measure will affect?