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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.

1,746 records match, page 53 of 70.

  1. Debate contribution: Budget 2025-26

    • Executive Committee Business

    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…

    Not flagged

  2. Debate contribution: Stonewall: Charity Commission Referral

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    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…

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  3. Topical question AQT 1325/22-27

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    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…

    Not flagged

  4. Debate contribution: Online Harms: Impact on Young People

    • Private Members' Business

    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…

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  5. Debate contribution: Online Harms: Impact on Young People

    • Private Members' Business

    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.…

    Not flagged

  6. Debate contribution: Online Harms: Impact on Young People

    • Private Members' Business

    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…

    Not flagged

  7. Debate contribution: International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia

    • Private Members' Business

    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…

    Not flagged

  8. Motion or amendment: Tackling the Impact of Online Harms on Young People (Revised Wording) - Amendment 1

    • 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…

    Not flagged

  9. Debate contribution: Review of Local Councils’ Animal Welfare Policies

    • Private Members' Business

    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…

    Not flagged

  10. Motion or amendment: Creating a Level Playing Field in Pre-School Admissions

    • Motion · Private Members' Motion

    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…

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