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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.
Minister, we had a sample of climate change recently with storm Éowyn. How or in what way are the Executive Office or, indeed, the Executive collaborating with utilities such as NIE, NI Water and others, especially the likes of the providers of fibre networks? We saw at one fell swoop how virtually the entire region,…
Gabhaim buíochas fosta le mo chara Déaglán agus a chomhChomhaltaí as ucht an rún seo a chur osár gcomhair. People have asked what the scale of this is. Those who are not off the land, whose families are not engaged in farming and whose families have not held in ownership the land, which, we know, is a very important…
Minister, supporting children with special educational needs was a priority in the draft Programme for Government, yet children continue to wait nearly three times the statutory limit for an assessment. Will you outline when your Department expects to deliver an assessment for every child within the statutory 26…
Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I also thank the Minister for being here and for listening intently to the arguments that have been made. These are real issues that affect many people. One aspect that has not been focused on relates to people with mental health issues who are exceptionally vulnerable and…
Minister, in 2023, your Department funded a £110,000 scheme to explore regeneration projects in 10 rural villages. Will you give us an update on those specific locations, please?
Like others in the Chamber, I have attended far too many unnecessary funerals and wakes brought about by campaigns of violence on our streets that were unnecessary. I am a member of the SDLP, which stood for non-violence and to provide the alternative and the leadership that, hopefully, has brought us to a peaceful…
Department for the Economy Procurement Policy To ask the Minister for the Economy, further to reports that Invest NI has funded companies creating parts for F-35 fighter jets used by Israel’s army, for her assessment of whether any expenditure for this purpose aligns with her Department’s ethical procurement policy.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the number of fatalities that are attributable to the use of generators during the power outage caused by Storm Éowyn.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of animals slaughtered due to bovine TB in each of the last five years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the actions that have been taken in Lough Neagh and the surrounding watercourses to prevent blue-green algae.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to provide a breakdown of (i) compensation; and (ii) other costs to his Department due to bovine TB, in each of the last five years.
Not after what your colleague said about me earlier. It has been referred to the Executive. Can we have a plan of action to identify the weaknesses and the problems and how things can be done better? I do not particularly care who takes the initiative so long as that is done and so long as we hear back. Those living…
What collaboration is or is likely to be ongoing with other Departments to get an audit of how things happened and how best to approach the issues, particularly in rural areas?
Thank you, Minister. For the purposes of accuracy in the debate, it is, in fact, in the Committee minutes that the key issues that were highlighted at the Committee were — yes, environmental issues — environmental standards, food standards and animal welfare. Those were the three principal issues that were…
Sorry, but I sat for numerous hours in the Chamber debating the Climate Change Bill, and I voted for it. On the point that the Member raised about my colleagues on Belfast City Council, that is not incompatible with what was proposed at the Committee, where it was proposed that people who are potentially in serious…
So had you. Well, that is grand. You can start away. Cross-compliance has ultimately proven ineffective in addressing pollution problems. Three cases of breaches have been brought forward. Each year, as little as 1% of farms are inspected, with the majority of breaches associated with improper record-keeping. Even…