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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.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of reported water pollution incidents in Ward Park, Bangor in each of the last five years.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Failure of RAISE Programme in Tackling Educational Underachievement”
Failure of RAISE Programme in Tackling Educational Underachievement - Amendment 2 Leave out all after ‘background’ and insert: ‘is often a significant predictor of educational underachievement; notes the high levels of additional per pupil funding provided to schools through the Common Funding Scheme to specifically…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure when his Department will introduce the necessary legislation to allow local councils to set their own tariffs for off-street parking.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any action he is taking to unlock building developments currently held up with waste and sewerage connection issues.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The greatest struggle that I will have is to read through this handwriting for the next five minutes, but I will certainly do my best. In summarising the debate, for which I, like my colleague has just done, thank Cathy Mason for bringing, I think that it has been an interesting and…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the level of (i) domestic; and (ii) non-domestic rates unpaid in the Ards and North Down Borough Council area in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on the installation of a controlled pedestrian crossing on East Circular Road, at the junction of Ballymaconnell Road, Bangor.
I welcome the motion from UUP colleagues. It has certainly been an interesting debate so far. In Northern Ireland, children should already have access to a teacher of the deaf — that has been reflected on already — and an educational audiologist, regardless of their level of deafness, where they are educated or when…
I thank the Minister for his statement. His Department has already engaged in some really good work around early intervention and early years, which was a recommendation from the independent review. Does the Minister have any plans to do more in those areas in the rest of the mandate?
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether he was aware of any discussions between his former Special Adviser and the Vice Chancellor at Ulster University during the summer in relation to his former Special Adviser taking up a new position.
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline the timescale for providing the additional funding he recently announced for grassroots sports clubs, to mark the success of local Paris Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Raising Awareness of the Dangers of Vaping Amongst Children”
Raising Awareness of the Dangers of Vaping Amongst Children - Amendment 2 Leave out all after ‘calls on the Minister of Education’ and insert: ‘to ensure that every school is fulfilling its statutory requirement to provide learning opportunities in relation to the risks of substance misuse; and further calls on the…
I want to raise the importance of speech and language therapy (SLT), its effectiveness when it is used as an early intervention and the current prevalence of need for it in Northern Ireland. We already know from research that a two-year-old's reading ability can strongly predict their later attainment at school.…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) when his former Special Adviser informed him of her intention to resign; and (ii) when her employment was terminated.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for his assessment of whether his former Special Adviser complied with the Code of Conduct for Special Advisers during her tenure.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his former Special Adviser satisfied the terms and conditions in paragraph 30 of the Letter of Appointment to be Issued to Special Adviser, relating to her period of notice.
I begin by putting on record that I fully support the motion, and I thank the Chair of the Health Committee for tabling it. I also recognise the Northern Ireland review of children's social services report and the work of Ray Jones, which has been spoken about in the Chamber this morning. A number of years ago, I…