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Mr Paul Frew: Assembly records
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 Education to detail the contact that schools and Teachers of the Deaf have with (i) Health and Social Care Trusts; (ii) GPs; and (iii) other health specialists in relation to assessing the needs of pupils with hearing problems and their education.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the steps being taken to ensure that pupils with hearing problems are not grouped together with other pupils who suffer from ASD or ADHD.
To ask the Minister of Education, in light of findings that deaf children have a 70 per cent higher risk of requiring sensory integration interventions, how his Department proposes to meet this provision.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether they have met with the Vaccine Injured and Bereaved Support Group Northern Ireland, or others injured or bereaved due to the Covid-19 vaccine, as committed to by the First Minister in the Assembly chamber on 19 February 2024.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) how his Department works with the Department of Education and schools to support deaf children and their families, both financially and practically; and (ii) how many fully-trained hearing specialist medical staff are involved in this work.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to detail the (a) financial; and (b) practical support provided by his Department to deaf children and their families; and (ii) what plans he has to enhance this support.
To ask the Minister of Health, given concerns that children who are deaf or hard of hearing are being directed down an ASD or ADHD pathway of care that may not be suitable for them, what measures he will take to (i) ascertain the extent of this problem; and (ii) effect positive change.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to detail the number of children registered as deaf or hard of hearing; and (ii) how many of them have been assigned a fully trained and specialist hearing therapist.
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) has recorded, for week 15 of 2024, that we have breached over 500 excess deaths, with 502. To put that in context, we have been experiencing excess deaths for two years now, but, this time last year, for week 15 of 2023, it was recorded that there were 117…
To ask the Minister of Health how many people have been deregistered from their dentist in (i) 2023; (ii) 2022; (iii) 2021; (iv) 2020; (v) 2019; and (vi) 2018.
Native tree planting assists in the enhancement of wildlife compared with the forests of evergreen trees for timber production, which basically kill everything underneath them. Has the Minister got the balance right?
I thank the Minister for her answer. Just because it goes forward from the Executive does not mean that the Committee and Assembly work is not vital with that. That is really only one stage. The Association of Scottish Police Superintendents has warned that: "those who report hate incidents that do not meet the…
I welcome and support the legislation, because we are now at a point at which we have concrete proposals to make the provisions in the law permanent, which has been the cry of my party since we came back here. I am glad that the Finance Committee facilitated our making those views known and that the Department has…
I rise to speak on the statement that the Prime Minister made in the past few days in which he clearly stated that, since the pandemic, something has gone badly wrong. We know what has gone wrong: the lockdown philosophy and the deployment of fear. It is those elements of policy — government policy — that have hurt…
Mr Frew asked the Minister of Justice for further reassurance as to the differences between her hate crime Bill and those in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland, in light of the fact that, earlier today, she went to great lengths to distance her hate crime Bill from those Bills.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the number of visitors to Dark Tourism sites in Northern Ireland in the last ten years, broken down by age profile.
I have listened to the debate intently in the Chamber or up in my room when I was having to make calls. Everyone here knows of my interest in energy, so fuel poverty is a natural progression of that. I agree that more can be done to prevent fuel poverty and to lift people out of it, but we are in danger of looking in…
Mr Speaker, I appreciate that. We are all, I think, horrified at the escalation of the war in the Middle East, with the recent attack that Iran has perpetrated on Israeli soil for the first time in history. We see the horrors that war brings and the innocent victims who suffer war. However, I want to talk about a…
To ask the Minister of Health what recourse a patient has when a specialist recommends a medicine or drug for their condition, but their GP refuses to prescribe it.
First, I pay tribute to my colleagues Diane Dodds and Alan Robinson, who have been doing sterling work on the Health Committee to scrutinise a lot of the measures and to shine a spotlight on the Department, and I welcome that. I would fight for anyone's right to obtain a medicine that they thought would assist them…
I will talk about excess deaths. I will push out some figures, and I want the House to remember that, while we can all throw out figures and facts, they are real people: mums and dads, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and wives and husbands. We have already seen from the Northern Ireland Statistics and…