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Mr Pat Sheehan: Assembly records
All of Mr Pat Sheehan’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 45390/22-27, to detail any specific metrics and indicators that will be used by the Teachers’ Negotiating Committee subgroup to measure reductions in teacher bureaucracy and workload.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 45390/22-27, whether any quantified baseline assessment of average teacher working hours has been carried out by his Department.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has considered the potential stigma or embarrassment experienced by families unable to make voluntary contributions.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has made any assessment of whether parents feel pressured into making voluntary contributions requested by schools.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of complaints, relating to voluntary contributions in schools, received by (i) his Department; and (ii) the Education Authority, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has carried out any assessment of the total annual value of voluntary contributions requested by grant-aided schools.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has assessed the extent to which schools rely on voluntary contributions to fund core educational provision.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department holds any data on the number of grant-aided schools requesting voluntary contributions from parents.
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire shóisearach as ucht a freagra. I acknowledge the work of the Communities in Transition delivery partners alongside the energetic and vibrant community groups, as well as Féile, which work 365 days a year to build a West Belfast that is inclusive, welcoming, confident and safe. Does the…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail when the Joint Education and Health Oversight Group first discussed the provision of special school summer schemes for summer 2026.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he would consider requiring schools to record and publish the total value of voluntary contributions received annually.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he has considered introducing mandatory transparency requirements regarding voluntary contributions requested by schools.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether any assessment has been made of the Joint Health and Education Oversight Group; and (ii) to detail the number of group meetings that have taken place, since February 2024.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of civil servants employed within his Department in February 2024 who have since left his Department, excluding retirements.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any consideration given to research relating to (i) trauma; (ii) attachment; and (iii) neurodevelopment, prior to publication through Departmental channels of the article within the April 2026 edition of the Northern Ireland Educational Research Quarterly entitled,…
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 45748/22-27, to detail a breakdown of the funding allocated under each heading referenced in his answer.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any (i) peer-review; (ii) editorial oversight; and (iii) quality assurance, processes applied to the publication of the article within the April 2026 edition of the Northern Ireland Educational Research Quarterly entitled, Restorative Justice: it doesn’t restore and it isn’t…
To ask the Minister of Education whether the article published within the April 2026 edition of the Northern Ireland Educational Research Quarterly entitled, Restorative Justice: it doesn’t restore and it isn’t just, was classified as research, policy guidance or commentary.