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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.
Thank you for your statement, Minister. Was there any discussion with Minister Donnelly about a replacement for the cross-border healthcare directive to help to tackle our waiting lists?
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) when the interdepartmental group on the anti-poverty strategy will next meet; and (ii) what Departments will be represented on the group.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail his plans to engage with (i) the independent expert panel who have developed recommendations for an anti-poverty strategy; and (ii) the anti-poverty strategy co-design group.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail his plans to adopt the recommendations of the expert panel on Discretionary Support to improve the reach and fairness of the current system.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the funding for Discretionary Support that remains available for allocation in the 2024-25 financial year.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) whether the additional criteria for Discretionary Support that was added in summer 2023 due to a limited budget is still in place; and (ii) whether that additional criteria will be removed.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to detail why his Department is the only Executive Department that has not appointed an official to the cross-departmental working group convened by the Minister for Communities to consult on the actions drafted by the Irish Language Strategy Co-Design Group; and (ii) , given that the…
I am glad to hear that at least some work is commencing to address the problems. You referred to remedial works and health and safety works. Any of us who travel through the Building will have seen buckets full of water in the middle of corridors, which is not an ideal situation, and water ingress towards the…
Gabhaim buíochas arís eile leis an Aire. Minister, we all want to support you as you continue your work, but will you indicate who refused to sign off on the Executive meeting on Thursday and the reason that was given for that?
Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. Minister, paragraphs 11 and 14 of your statement are to do with cross-jurisdictional research projects between the Republic of Ireland and the Government in the North. In particular, paragraph 14 refers to blue-green algae. I know that that is a problem that affects not just Lough Neagh…
Go raibh maith agat, a Aire. First Minister, we are approaching six months since the Executive were restored. Will you detail the responsibilities of each junior Minister?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the support available to register and maintain a community-owned defibrillator that is accessible for public use.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether any contingency plans are in place if the procurement process to renew the operator agreement for Crumlin Road Gaol visitor attraction and conference centre is not completed by November 2024.
To ask the Minister of Finance, pursuant to AQW 12520/22-27, to detail the progress her Department has made in bringing forward the necessary statutory provision for wills to be validly made in Irish, as committed under New Decade, New Approach.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, following the Speaker's Ruling on Assembly Questions on 12 March 2024, and pursuant to AQW 12788/22-27, to detail (i) the membership of the focus group; (ii) how many times it has met; (iii) what plans it has identified that can be put in place by summer 2024; (iv) what…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the budgetary allocation for public realm schemes for 2024-25; and (ii) the level of expenditure on public realm schemes in each of the last ten years, broken down by location.
Minister, what engagement is there between your Department and the Department for Infrastructure on the lack of capacity at NI Water, which is causing paralysis of development in many areas, including social housing?
To ask the Minister of Health what assessment he has made of the impact of the implementation of the Pharmacy Workforce Review 2020 on the financial viability of community pharmacies.
To ask the Minister of Health what additional financial support he will provide to community pharmacies to implement the Community Pharmacy Strategic Plan 2030.
To ask the Minister for Communities, given the High Court Rulings [2017] NIQB 27 and [2022] NIQB 56, declaring that the Executive had failed to comply with its duty under section 28D of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, (i) what stage the Irish Language Strategy is at; and (ii) when he plans to bring it to the Executive…
I thank the Minister for giving way. Can the Minister expand on the direction from the Office for Environmental Protection? If the Department had ignored the direction, what would the implications have been for the Department and any other approvals given on the basis of the standing guidelines used at the NIEA prior…
I welcome the motion, and I agree that investment in new and replacement farm buildings is essential in improving agriculture's environmental footprint. However, any valid concerns that the proposers of the motion may have about farm investment and farm income can be lost in their complaint about environmental…
Mr McGlone asked the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on the Lough Neagh action plan that was presented to the Executive on Thursday.