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Mr Patsy McGlone: Assembly records
All of Mr Patsy McGlone’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 whether any audit has been conducted to establish (i) the number of wards; and (ii) the number of bays, not in use that could be utilised for step-down or respite care, in each Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any recent discussions they have had with Executive colleagues in relation to the rising price of home heating oil in Northern Ireland.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any recent discussions they have had with the British Government on the rising price of home heating oil.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any estimate her Department has made of the increase in the average price of home heating oil, since the start of the conflict with Iran; and (ii) any assessment she has made of the impact of those increases on households that rely on heating oil.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps his Department is taking to support households that rely on heating oil for domestic heating, following recent increases in heating oil prices linked to the conflict in Iran.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps his Department is taking to support rural and other off-grid households with the cost of heating oil.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any discussions they have had with the British Government on the potential merits of compensating people who were unable to pay mortgages, credit card bills and other household bills, due to delays in payments from the Civil Service Pensions Scheme.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any estimate he has made of the number of (i) adults; and (ii) children, participating in (a) GAA; (b) soccer (c) rugby union; (d) cricket; (e) tennis; (f) boxing; (g) athletics; (h) golf; (i) gymnastics; (j) netball; (k) basketball, in 2025, broken down by gender.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of community sports facilities that received government funding, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any assessment her Department has made of the support available to small businesses in relation to unsolicited sales approaches from third party intermediaries.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any recent discussions she has had with industry representatives, reducing regulatory burdens on small businesses.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any steps she is taking to create cross-departmental (i) structures; and (ii) regulations that support small and medium-sized enterprises.
To ask the Minister of Justice for an update on the steps she has taken to resolve the dispute with members of the Criminal Bar Association over Crown Court legal aid fees.
To ask the Minister of Justice for an update on the development of the legislative provisions to prevent the unauthorised recording and sharing of photos of road traffic collisions.
To ask the Minister of Justice for an update on the proposed consultation to extend the protected characteristics in the Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc.) Bill.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) when a funding decision for the TinyStart programme will be made; and (ii) any assessment that has been made of the impact on children and families of a reduction in funding for the programme.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any assessment she has made of the benefits of providing a safe footpath connection along the Drumenny Road, Ballinderry, from Gort Road to Mullan Road; and (ii) whether she will consider prioritising this project as a rural active travel scheme.
Thanks very much for giving way, Minister. Given, as you outlined, the wide range of other statutory bodies that would need to be involved, and given that they may have legal duties under such a law, would that not narrow the confines of the spread of any amendment that might be introduced?
I thank the Member for giving way. Does the Member agree that the lightness of such sentences and, indeed, the anonymity afforded to some people in court feed the narrative that, in fact, they are some sort of agents for the police?
I thank the Minister for elaborating on that. Perhaps, in her winding-up comments, the Minister will indicate whether she will take the Scottish route, which she outlined, and introduce a separate misogyny Bill. That would be very helpful. Nevertheless, according to one official, sex is one of the groups that could be…
The SDLP welcomes the Second Stage debate on the Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill. As has already been set out, its provisions are important and overdue. The review of issues to do with sentencing policy that the Bill covers was announced 10 years ago, and proposals for a sentencing guidelines mechanism were…