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Mr Paul Givan: Assembly records

All of Mr Paul Givan’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.

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  2. Debate contribution: Irish-medium Education: SEN Support

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for her question. Colleagues will know that I receive a huge number of invitations, and I just cannot be everywhere all at the one time. However, I seek to make myself available. Most Members in the Chamber, if they look at it fairly, will say that I do that and attend as many settings and take up…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  3. Debate contribution: Preschool Education Programme: Update

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I absolutely understand the representations that the Member has received; I have also received them. It is recognition of what we are able to do as an Executive with the resource that is available. I would love to bring more in, but that comes with a cost implication. Some of the settings, as we develop the programme,…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  4. Debate contribution: Preschool Education Programme: Update

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    The 2024-25 package of measures for parents and providers that I announced to the Assembly on 23 May continues to be successfully implemented, including a major expansion of preschool education provision. I announced at that time my intention that an additional 100 preschool settings and 2,000 places would transition…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  5. Debate contribution: Schools: Damage from Storm Éowyn

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    That takes me into the territory of the Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) report on underinvestment in our school estate, the need for much higher levels of investment and the bids that I make, which are for much greater sums than I receive. I agree in general that there needs to be much better investment in the…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  6. Debate contribution: Schools: Damage from Storm Éowyn

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for that. As with everything, whilst I believe that departmental officials, the Education Authority and others responded very well — I went to meet the staff in EA to convey my appreciation — lessons on communications can always be learned. That Sunday evening, nearly 300 principals were invited and…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  7. Debate contribution: Schools: Damage from Storm Éowyn

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for that question. The Minister of Finance allocated some funding to Departments to help to mitigate the costs. Obviously, the Department of Education and other Departments are already under acute financial pressure. My Department received a £3 million allocation towards the storm damage on the…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  8. Debate contribution: Schools: Damage from Storm Éowyn

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    The impact, as I outlined, was detrimental to the schools that had to close, but we were able to have the vast majority open, and, by the end of that week, all schools were open. Schools were also seeking, where they could, to carry out some remote learning. It also highlights the need for contingency arrangements to…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  9. Debate contribution: Schools: Damage from Storm Éowyn

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    With the Speaker's permission, I will answer questions 4 and 10 together. I begin by expressing my sincere thanks to the staff in all our schools, in the Education Authority and in NIE and to members of our community who worked extremely hard, sometimes in very challenging conditions, to protect our schools estate…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  10. Debate contribution: SPiMS: North Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Special educational needs was an issue that was consulted on in the draft Programme for Government, and I am confident that it will be in the document when it is agreed. That recognises the collective approach that the Executive are taking to deal with those issues. Of course, it needs to be followed through with…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  11. Debate contribution: SPiMS: North Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    The Member rightly highlights the need for the wider support that allied health professionals provide, and I agree with him. The provision of that support is the responsibility of the Minister of Health, and I have made that point. We need to have the Department of Health and its Minister supporting me and schools in…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  12. Debate contribution: SPiMS: North Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Data was received from all schools in 2023-24. In 2024, pupil-level information was not received in electronic format from 25% of primary, post-primary and special schools, and a paper return was received from the schools that refused to submit a return electronically. Members will know that that was part of the…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  13. Debate contribution: SPiMS: North Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    The Member is right to raise the issue of specialist provision. Seeking expressions of interest in having specialist provision, we contacted all schools. I visited Carr Primary School in my constituency. It did not offer that provision but indicated that it wanted to. About 10 months later, I was able to visit the…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  14. Debate contribution: SPiMS: North Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for raising that, because I highlighted it through the special educational needs review that was completed. We have taken that information. I made a statement to the Assembly outlining how we needed to address it. Subsequently, I published the details of the delivery plan associated with that and…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  16. Debate contribution: Gambling

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Again, those are areas that we can touch on in the curriculum. There is room to do that. The Member rightly highlights all those things. Whether it is gambling or addiction to other drugs, such as alcohol and other substances, they all cause harm in our society, particularly to young people. Yes, there is a place for…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  17. Debate contribution: Gambling

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for raising the issue and for highlighting the importance of today. Yes, we need to work across Departments. The consequences of gambling harm in our society are far-reaching and have a substantial impact, so the involvement of multiple Departments working in a coordinated way is required. That…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  18. Debate contribution: Gambling

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I recognise the detrimental consequences of gambling and the considerable impact that its associated harms can have on individuals, their families and the community as a whole. To address the issue, it is essential to promote awareness among our children of the dangers of gambling-related harm. Our strategy is…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  19. Debate contribution: Literacy Model

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    For phonics and its systematic use, both are important. The key question has been around the use of cueing. It is well documented that cueing is not now an advocated approach, based on international research. ITV carried out a very good investigation into literacy performance in Wales, where there has been a…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  20. Debate contribution: Literacy Model

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for his question. It is hugely important and relates to what is taught in our classrooms and the approaches that are taken. We need to have a strong focus on literacy and numeracy in particular, because they are the essential foundation for all education. They are essential to allowing our children…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  21. Debate contribution: Literacy Model

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for the question, which touches on a number of areas. I assure him that the EA is reviewing literacy support in line with the new model and the graduated response framework that he mentioned. The EA is liaising closely with experts in the field, including Professor Julian Elliott from Durham…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  22. Debate contribution: Literacy Model

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Between September 2024 and 31 January 2025, the Education Authority (EA) paused new referrals from schools to the Education Authority literacy service. That allowed the service to facilitate the prioritisation of pupils awaiting support as a result of the legacy discrepancy model of referral and service delivery. In…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  23. Debate contribution: Supporting Learning Pathways for our Young People

    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    That leads me on to my next point. The Member is right: pupils have to get the correct advice. The advice at school when I was there was, "Join the police", "Become a teacher" or, "Go into the health profession". It was not the kind of careers advice that we need to be providing to our young people. It is important…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  24. Debate contribution: Supporting Learning Pathways for our Young People

    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I welcome the opportunity to respond to the motion, which: "recognises the fundamental importance of education in enabling our children and young people to reach their full potential, develop their skills, and prepare them for life" after school. I thank the Members who tabled the motion…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  25. Debate contribution: Controlled Schools: Support Arrangements

    • Ministerial Statement
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for the question. Unless you are deemed an officially integrated school, the Alliance Party does not care. That is why it has opposed the Strule Shared Education Campus. At every opportunity, it has opposed bringing together 4,000 children at an iconic, landmark educational campus in a town that was…

    Flagged Education structures, integration and community division Criteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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