All of Mr Phillip Brett’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I appreciate your accepting this question for urgent oral answer, but will you outline to the House what avenues are open to Members should a Member, whether speaking as First Minister or from the Back Benches, inadvertently or intentionally mislead the House? It is clear that the…
Thank you, First Minister, for that fulsome answer. Institutional understanding of this place and public confidence in this place are based on the fact that statements made by Ministers in the House are true and accurate, so I will remind you what you said to the House. You stated, as First Minister, on 22 October…
I thank the Minister for her answer. Minister, I listened with interest to your interview today on 'The Nolan Show', in which you highlighted some of the barriers to police officers joining the force and how we need to make sure that our police service is reflective of all sections of our community. With that in mind,…
I thank the Member for his question. I am sure that he will not mind me pointing out that his party kept the institutions down for two years and delayed us from taking forward any of the work needed to ensure that the Act is implemented. As I indicated in my response to Ms Egan, we are working at pace to deliver this…
This month marks two years since Sinn Féin took on ownership of the Department for the Economy. In that two years, the Act has not progressed one iota. Trade unions were forced to protest outside this Building at the delay. Will you please articulate to the House why, in two years, your Department has not been able to…
Minister, the Northern Ireland Audit Office published a damning report on the Department's energy strategy. We have already seen one delay to the renewable electricity price guarantee (REPG) scheme. When will you, as Minister, get to grips with the energy department in the Department for the Economy and deliver on the…
Minister, in your statement, you discuss how officials have been sharing best practice on how to advance transport policy. Does that extend to Hill Street in north Belfast? Your Department committed that the pedestrianisation of that street would be completed by November. It is now 1 December, and the street has still…
Minister, you said that: "Having greater fiscal powers would allow us to make different choices ... to generate income for public services". As Minister of Finance, what are your preferred options for how we will generate additional income?
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on efforts to reduce waiting times for adult ADHD assessments within the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health whether a GP can refuse to prescribe Armour Thyroid to a patient having been recommended for such by a Health and Social Care Trust endocrinologist.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any discussions she had with the Ministry of Defence, regarding Northern Ireland's allocation under the Local Defence Growth Deals.
Belfast City Hall: 19 October 2024 To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, given their departmental commitments to the elimination of prejudice, racism and hate crime, to confirm whether their office was represented at the event at Belfast City Hall on 19 October 2024 at which criminal damage to a…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to outline any assessment that has been made of the effectiveness of the North Belfast Strategic Good Relations Programme.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in light of the Chancellor's announcement on lowering energy bills across the United Kingdom in the Autumn Budget 2025, to detail (i) when this will be applied in Northern Ireland; and (ii) any barriers that exist to its introduction, alongside the rest of the United Kingdom.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any work the Forest Service has undertaken for their land to site onshore renewable energy.
The comments yesterday from the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) that it would not be bringing charges against a former Sinn Féin employee for an attack on a portrait at Belfast City Hall have all the hallmarks of yet another republican cover-up and raise serious questions about the accuracy of statements that were…
FlaggedSectarianism, hate crime and community relationsCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether their Department has a policy on providing funds to an organisation which has been found not to have fully co-operated with a police investigation
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 35185/22-27, to detail how providing an assessment with a decision already made, interferes with democratic decision making.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any time spent, to date, by staff on developing her Department's Irish language policy; (ii) the number of requests received by her Department from the public, since she took office, for Irish language services; (iii) when the draft policy will be available for…