All of Mr Paul Frew’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 for Communities for an update on his meeting with the Broughshane and District Community Association in relation to further funding for a new community centre for Broughshane.
To ask the Minister of Health whether percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy surgeries will take place in (i) November 2024; (ii) December 2024; and (iii) January 2025.
To ask the Minister of Health, if winter pressures have impacted the October initiative for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy surgeries, whether it will recommence in 2025.
To ask the Minister of Health when the roll-out for the plans for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy surgeries in the Ulster Hospital will take place; and is this planned to be a long-term solution.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of children that have been scoped to be suitable to travel to Alder Hey Children's Hospital for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy surgery; (ii) how soon measures can be put in place to allow this to happen; (iii) whether this is seen as a long-term measure; and…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) when percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy surgeries commenced in the private sector; and (ii) the number of children that received percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy surgery through private care in the last 12 months.
Supporting a Public Health Approach to Tackling Gambling-Related Harms That this Assembly welcomes the publication of the All-Party Group on Reducing Harm Related to Gambling's report, Public Health Approaches to Tackling Gambling Related Harms; agrees that gambling should be officially recognised as a public health…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Belfast City Centre Dereliction”
Belfast City Centre Dereliction - Amendment 1 Leave out all after first ‘dereliction’ and insert: ‘in parts of Belfast City Centre, which has contributed to a growing sense of squalor and decay; expresses frustration at delays in the proposed urban regeneration of the Tribeca Belfast site, as well as dilapidation on a…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for an update on their meeting with the Vaccine Injured and Bereaved Support group for Northern Ireland.
In my speech, I failed to mention that I am prepared to work with the Minister of Health and the Department to introduce legislation. I wish that he would introduce it, but I feel that he will not. His utterances today suggest that he will not. I will do so, if need be, but I wish that the Department of Health would…
I think of Adam Strain, Lucy Crawford, Raychel Ferguson, Conor Mitchell and Claire Roberts: children at the centre of the O'Hara report. Alan and Jennifer Roberts, Claire's mum and dad, are with us today. I think of Conan McIlwrath, vice chair of the UK Haemophilia Society, and Nigel Hamilton, chairperson of…
To ask the Minister of Health, in light of the roll-out of encompass, to detail any difference members of the public will see when obtaining their medical notes for Personal Independence Payment and Employment Support Allowance appeals.
The following point has been missing from this debate so far. It is important to note that there are many hard-working individuals in the Northern Ireland Civil Service who contribute daily and substantially to society, but they, just like everyone else, are being failed, and the Northern Ireland Civil Service is in…
I thank the Member for giving way and for his dialogue and demeanour. He talks about the Committee finishing its work more quickly. Surely the Member knows that that will be completely and utterly dependent on the Minister providing the clauses of the Bill earlier.
To ask the Minister of Education whether the Review of the Northern Ireland Curriculum will consider a statutory requirement for schools to educate pupils on the dangers of gambling as part of the core curriculum.
In reply to my colleague Diane Forsythe, Minister, you clarified that you did not think that any further Treasury support would be able to be availed of by the voluntary and third sectors. Given the impact that the rise in employer rate National Insurance contributions will have on our businesses and employers, I also…