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 of Health, further to the Public Health Agency’s current investigation into excess deaths in Northern Ireland, (i) to detail that investigation’s (a) scope; (b) remit; (c) timescales; and (d) deadline; and (ii) how this investigation differs from the Department’s Information and Analysis…
To ask the Minister of Health, further to the Public Health Agency’s current investigation into excess deaths in Northern Ireland, to detail (i) the date the investigation commenced; (ii) the number of staff working on this investigation; (iii) who updates the Department of Health; and (iv) who within the Department…
To ask the Minister of Health when and how the Public Health Agency investigation into excess deaths was notified to the (i) Executive; and (ii) Northern Ireland Assembly.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) who took the decision to task the Public Health Agency to further investigate excess deaths in Northern Ireland at a meeting held on 15 September 2022, and under what authority; (ii) who, within the Public Health Agency, received that request; and (ii) whether the then Minister of…
I thank the Minister for her answer. I was going to ask her when she will publish the missing parts of her Justice Bill. I am also concerned about when the Minister will introduce the sentencing Bill. Can she reassure the House that it will not be half a Bill?
Mr Frew asked the Minister of Justice, as the Justice Committee considers its forward work programme on scrutiny of the Justice Bill, whether she would advise the Committee to invite outside organisations to discuss half a Bill or to wait until organisations can see the full content of the Bill in order to form…
Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I have listened to the debate, and it was truly heartbreaking. The saying that comes into my head repeatedly as I hear the experiences being recounted throughout the Chamber is, "Be kind, for you do not know what battles people are fighting". Whilst we say it quite often, there is no…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Addressing the Lack of Respite Provision for Adults with Learning Difficulties, Complex Needs and Challenging Behaviour”
Addressing the Lack of Respite Provision for Adults with Learning Difficulties, Complex Needs and Challenging Behaviour - Amendment 2 After the fourth ‘respite provision’ insert: ‘and the removal of respite services when families move from one Health and Social Care Trust area to another;’
To ask the Minister of Finance, further to recent findings published by the Northern Ireland Audit Office, to outline why 16 recommendations of the Report of the Independent Public Inquiry into the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme, published in March 2020, have not been fully implemented.
I recall the previous extension order, six months ago — the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Registration of Deaths and Still-Births) (Extension) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 — and the commitments, promises and reassurances that were given to the House at that time. Unfortunately, those commitments and reassurances counted for…
To ask the Minister of Health, in light of the campaign by families of children with complex needs who are on a waiting list for percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion, to detail the measures he will take to address (i) the reported concerns of these parents; and (ii) the waiting list for this surgery.
Some in the House, Minister, could accuse you of consulting a duty of candour to death. Is it not now time, Minister, for there to be an individual statutory duty of candour with criminal sanctions for withholding information or misleading the public? How can having a policy and law on telling the truth have a chill…
Given that the First Minister confirmed that the senior HR officer made a serious omission by not notifying the Sinn Féin leadership about references given for Michael McMonagle and said today that he or she is still a member of Sinn Féin, will there be any disciplinary investigation of that member? How is it…
I rise today to remember the events of that terrible day, 7 October, in the state of Israel against the Israeli people. It was a day that changed the world for every single Israeli citizen and every single Palestinian. My heart goes out to those people today. That Hamas attack on innocent civilians of the state of…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the current position on the collection and retention of biometric material and data when a person is given a fixed penalty notice under Section 60 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the total sum of Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) allocated to support renewable heat energy from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2024; (ii) the total sum paid out in support of the (a) non-domestic; and (b) domestic Renewable Heat Incentive schemes in the period 1 April…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, further to the debate on the Second Stage of the Justice Bill on 1 October 2024, to detail the rationale for the advice issued by their Department that Ministers should limit legislation to one Bill per year.
I understand what the Minister is saying about primary legislation. I understand that the provisions must come through primary legislation, but what she is basically saying is that OLC has a capacity issue — that is basically what she is saying — and that she has not waited for her Bill to be completed before pushing…
As I do with all legislation in this place nowadays, I give the Bill a cautious welcome. We are legislators, and we are here to do a job. That job, however, should be measured not by the amount of legislation that we scrutinise but by the quality. We all know where the biometrics, the DNA and the data retention…
I thank the Member for giving way. I hear everything that he says about the additional material that the Minister will bring forward at Consideration Stage, but is the very fact that he cannot talk about it at Second Stage not a weakness in democracy and accountability?
I never fail to be amazed by the zombie-like collective memory loss about the part that the parties here played in the escalation of our mental health crisis through the deployment of fear and the lockdown philosophy. It amazes me that that has not been raised in any of today's debates. To prove my point, I will place…
I rise to, first of all, thank the Assembly for the progress that it has made over the past number of years on legislation to deal with and counter domestic and sexual violence. I have amended many of those pieces of legislation myself. I am grateful to the House for its support in that, but there are still many…
Funding for the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice That this Assembly acknowledges the vital role of the Northern Ireland Children’s Hospice in providing palliative care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions and supporting their families through extremely challenging times; notes the…