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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.

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  1. Member's statement: Gaza: Scholasticide

    • Members' Statements

    The term "scholasticide" refers to the systemic obliteration of education through the arrest, detention or killing of teachers, students and staff and the destruction of education infrastructure. Over 20,000 children and 500 teachers have been killed in Gaza over the past two years. Tens of thousands of others have…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  2. Urgent oral question: Minister of Education Visit to Israel

    • Urgent Oral Question

    Minister of Education Visit to Israel To ask the Minister of Education to explain his Department’s promotion on social media of his visit to a school located in illegally occupied territory during his trip funded by the Israeli Government which a recent UN Commission of Inquiry has found to have committee genocide.

    Not flagged Decided on a second assessment.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  6. Debate contribution: Restraint and Exclusion Task and Finish Group

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as a fhreagra, even though he did not answer the question that I asked. The RCN has now joined the Children's Commissioner and the Children's Law Centre in withdrawing. Those are organisations that deal with children's rights, and they have accused you, Minister, of ignoring human rights…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  7. Topical question AQT 1704/22-27

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Mr Sheehan asked the Minister of Education to explain why, as of last week, his Department had not responded to correspondence from the Children's Law Centre and the Commissioner for Children and Young People, which was sent on 13 August, given that those organisations have now withdrawn from the Department's task and…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  8. Written question AQW 33934/22-27

    • Department of Education

    To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) an update on any progress made on School Enhancement Projects SEP2 announced on 4 July 2023 as advancing in design; (ii) whether alternative schools have been, or are being, considered to replace schools which were initially included in the scheme, but which did not…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  9. Motion or amendment: Delivery of a Childcare Strategy

    • Motion · Private Members' Motion

    Delivery of a Childcare Strategy That this Assembly recognises that the commitment to delivering more affordable, accessible, high-quality early learning and childcare is an immediate priority within the Executive’s Programme for Government and that the Executive has provided £80 million towards childcare support…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  10. Debate contribution: Irish Language Street Signage in Belfast

    • Private Members' Business

    Is iarracht eile é an rún seo ón DUP lenár dtarraingt ar gcúl. Níl suim dá laghad ag bunús mór na ndaoine in iarrachtaí den chineál seo. Tá formhór mhuintir Bhéal Feirste, agus, leoga, formhór mhuintir an Tuaiscirt, ag iarraidh sin a fhágáil ina ndiaidh. An frith-Ghaelachas atá taobh thiar den rún seo. Tá sé…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  11. Debate contribution: Legislation Programme 2025-26

    • Executive Committee Business

    You should maybe tell that to the Education Minister who, today, was talking about rushing his own legislation through. He wanted the Committee Stage to be compressed so that he could get his legislation done as quickly as possible. Maybe you should have a word with him.

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  13. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Final Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. In the course of his hectoring of members of the Committee, the Minister made reference to "a Protestant school". I am not aware of a Protestant school sector. I know that we have the controlled sector and the maintained sector. I believe that what the Minister was trying to do was…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  14. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Final Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The Minister has just made an allegation that is completely untrue. I have never uttered the words that he said there.

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  15. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Final Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    We have mentioned the guidelines and the lack of integrity that there appeared to have been in the whole process numerous times. Can you think of any reason why draft guidelines could not have been shown to the Committee? The Minister could have said, "This is what I have in mind. Take a look at those and discuss…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  18. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Final Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    We were misled by officials. I do not believe that they had skin in the game, but I believe that they were acting under instruction from those higher up the food chain. There is therefore no contradiction in what my colleague has just said.

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  20. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Final Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I wonder, because I did not hear this articulated in any of the debates, either in Committee or in the Chamber, where the Ulster Unionist Party stands on the issue of girls having the right to wear trousers to school.

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  22. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Final Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    The only way to ensure that that situation is rectified is by ensuring that, by right, girls are allowed to wear trousers. They do not have to wear them. They could still choose to wear a skirt. However, if you want to ensure that that young girl whom you are talking about is able to do sport — I mentioned a young…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  24. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Final Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    From the very beginning, Sinn Féin approached the Bill in good faith, and, on that basis, we accepted a shorter Committee Stage. We engaged constructively, tabled amendments to make the legislation stronger, and took Department of Education officials at their word when they told us that the draft guidelines would be…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  25. Debate contribution: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill: Final Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    The Member may recall the evidence that we heard from a very articulate primary-school child who attends a rural school. Sometimes the class is taken into the field beside the school, and that child said that she has to wear a skirt, whereas the boys can wear trousers, and there are nettles and thistles and so on in…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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