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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 speak on behalf of my party but also as a member of the Education Committee. I will address some short remarks to the Budget as it pertains to the issues under the remit of Education. There are a range of projects and programmes that Members in this place, not least me — I reflect on the recent comments made by my…
I thank the Minister for his answer. Does he remain content for his Department and the Northern Ireland Civil Service to continue to support Stonewall through public funding and in wider policy terms, despite the mass exodus from its programme, including by even the aforementioned Equality Commission and Human Rights…
Mr Martin asked the Minister of Finance whether he is aware that Stonewall, which his Department funds, has been referred to the Charity Commission for actively encouraging organisations to disregard the implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling and the subsequent Equality Commission and Human Rights Commission…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of children within the South Eastern Health and Social care Trust that require a foster care placement.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline what discussions he has had with the Coastal Forum regarding consideration of, and potential funding for, the delivery of an outer breakwater for Donaghadee Harbour.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of grant funding his Department has awarded to community and voluntary sector organisations, in each of the last 5 years and broken down by parliamentary constituency.
I thank the Member for giving way. Does she accept that, although schools have iPads and iPhones with a particular level of safeguards so that inappropriate images and so forth cannot be seen, individual pupils who bring their phones into school, albeit with the best intentions for their use, may not have those…
I will address some of what my colleague referenced in the next section of my speech. I am particularly grateful to Smartphone Free Childhood for being a pioneer on the issue in Northern Ireland. Its research has been extremely useful to me. I publicly acknowledge Rosalind McClean and Dr Peter Cosgrove in particular.…
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank the sponsors of the motion for tabling it. Our amendment tries to enhance the motion without significantly changing it. I pay tribute to the Member opposite for East Londonderry, who has raised this issue consistently at the Education Committee. It is worth spending a…
To ask the Minister of Education whether the TransformED strategy will make systematic synthetic phonics the sole mandatory methodology for teaching children to read.
I thank the Member for taking the intervention. "Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks, and that is why I recommended that they should only be prescribed following a multidisciplinary assessment and within a research protocol." Those are not my words but those of Dr Hilary…
I thank the Minister for his answer. What is his assessment of the potential implications of the Supreme Court judgement for Northern Ireland's education settings, particularly schools?
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Tackling the Impact of Online Harms on Young People (Revised Wording)”
Tackling the Impact of Online Harms on Young People (Revised Wording) - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘cross-departmental working’ and insert: ‘; calls on the Minister of Education to advance the ongoing pilot to limit the use of smartphones in schools, integrate online safety into the curriculum, provide training…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any policy changes she is considering in light of the Supreme Court ruling in the case For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers Supreme Court delivered on the 16 April 2025.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any policy changes he is considering in light of the Supreme Court ruling in the case For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers Supreme Court delivered on the 16 April 2025.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) how CPR training is being monitored across post-primary schools; and (ii) whether additional support is planned to encourage pupils to be able to learn this life saving skill.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any policy changes she is considering in light of the Supreme Court ruling in the case For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers Supreme Court delivered on the 16 April 2025.
I was not planning to speak on this matter; however, if our cockapoo, Max, sees this and realises that I did not speak, I suspect that he would never forgive me. I speak as a very recent dog owner. I have always been very passionate about the protection of animals, but, with owning a dog in particular, you see that…
Creating a Level Playing Field in Pre-School Admissions That this Assembly expresses alarm that working families are disadvantaged by the current admissions criteria for pre-school education; is concerned that the requirement for providers to give priority to children from socially disadvantaged circumstances…