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Mr Peter Martin: Assembly records
All of Mr Peter Martin’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I welcome the Education Minister's statement. What numbers or percentages of pupils were eligible for priority when the SDC was introduced, and how many were there last year?
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any powers that the PSNI has to stop, board and inspect public transport, to check visas and the immigration status of its occupants.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail how the Education authority measures distance to school, when determining home to school transport eligibility.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the average waiting time for a driving test at Newtownards MOT centre, in each of the past five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the health and safety reasons for her Department's commitment of £1.2 million of funding for works to the Barmouth Moles, Castlerock.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether the Housing Executive plans to review their position on not undertaking or approving attic conversions in Housing Executive properties, to help address housing need.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the proportion of people aged over 40 who have received an eye examination, in the last 12 months; and (ii) whether this figure meets his Department's target.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any consideration that has been given to expanding targeted glaucoma screening and awareness initiatives for higher risk groups.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any plans his Department has to increase public awareness of the importance of regular eye tests, given that glaucoma is often symptomless in its early stages and can cause irreversible sight loss if left untreated.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether any assessment has been made of the finding in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing that approximately 67 per cent of people with glaucoma are unaware they have the condition; and (ii) to detail any steps being taken to improve early diagnosis rates.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps that are being taken to ensure equitable access to hospice and palliative care services across all Health and Social Care Trusts, including rural communities.
To ask the Minister of Health, given the Office of National Statistics has projected an increase in deaths requiring palliative care between 2023 and 2048 by 32 per cent, whether he will publish a long-term strategy for hospice and palliative care services to meet increasing demand over the coming years.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any assessment has been made as to whether the current balance of spending between hospital and hospice end-of-life care is the most effective use of health resources.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any estimate has been made of the number of hospital admissions that could have been avoided through increased investment in hospice and palliative care services.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any assessment has been made of the potential savings to the health service from increasing hospice funding and reducing the reliance on emergency hospital admissions.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any assessment has been made as to whether the current funding model for hospices is sustainable in the long-term, given it requires reliance on charitable fundraising to deliver commissioned services,
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail (i) any governance framework currently in place to ensure the responsible and ethical use of Artificial Intelligence across all Departments; and (ii) whether he intends to publish Artificial Intelligence assurance guidance for use across the Civil Service.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail (i) whether he has established a timetable for the introduction of mandatory Artificial Intelligence governance standards across Departments; and (ii) how compliance with such standards will be monitored and enforced.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether he intends to introduce minimum transparency requirements relating to the use of Artificial Intelligence in public services.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any measures and performance indicators that her Department will use to assess the success of its initiatives to support the adoption of Artificial Intelligence by small and medium-sized enterprises.
Minister, you have consented to the granting of a number of property disposals. It would be helpful if you can provide some further information on their location, the types of disposals that you have approved and whether they are cost-neutral.
Minister, the Northern Ireland Audit Office report is very critical of your Department on the topic of flood risk. You have just read out some interventions that your Department has made. The report's most substantial criticism is that your Department cannot show that its activities to build flood risk defences: "are…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps being taken by the Housing Executive to ensure the land transfer to Ards and North Down Borough Council for the proposed Conlig War Memorial is carried out in a timely manner, to allow the memorial to be in place for Remembrance Sunday.