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Mr Robin Swann: Assembly records
All of Mr Robin Swann’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Last week, the Assembly passed a Budget. It was warned at that stage that it would have catastrophic impacts on the Health and Social Care (HSC) system across Northern Ireland. Some said that that was scaremongering, while others said that it was untrue. Unusually, the six chairs of our health and social care trusts…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on the test and vaccinate or remove scheme that was piloted by his Department as a method of removing bovine TB from the wildlife population.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the level of water quality monitoring that his Department routinely conducts at Lough Neagh.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail how often a TB reactor animal has not been removed from its herd within the recommended 15 working day timeframe in each month of the last three years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) the number of road deaths; and (ii) the amount his Department has spent on road safety campaigns and advertising, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the level of financial support provided to each local council in each of the last three years, broken down by intended use.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 5733/22-27, (i) what consideration his Department has taken of motions tabled and passed by local councils in support of establishing a register; and (ii) to detail what local councils have contacted his Department asking for or…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 5733/22-27, whether his Department has considered the establishment of a Northern Ireland-specific register.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, given that his Department is responsible for enforcement, to detail how many prosecutions there have been under the Welfare of Animals (Northern Ireland) Act 2011 in relation to Farmed Animals, in each of the last five years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, given that local councils are responsible for enforcement, to detail how many prosecutions there have been under the Welfare of Animals (Northern Ireland) Act 2011 as it applies to Non-Farmed Animals, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Justice how much of her current budget allocation, in both value and percentage, has been set aside for pay increases for 2024-25 for (i) the PSNI; and (ii) the Prison Service.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the financial support his Department has provided for the agricultural shows in (i) Ballymoney; (ii) Ballymena; and (iii) Antrim in each of the last five years.
I speak as a Back-Bench MLA. I begin with a quote from another Member: "I am not going to impose cuts which will have such a negative consequence that it will damage the health of the Northern Ireland population ... I will make cuts, but there are certain services that I will not make cuts on, and the consequence of…
I beg to move I seek the Assembly's approval for the making of the draft statutory instrument (SI), which will amend the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 or "HMRs", as they are commonly known, to allow dental hygienists and dental therapists to supply and administer specified prescription-only medicines, pharmacy or…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Budget 2024-25”
Budget 2024-25 - Amendment 1 Leave out all after the first ‘Assembly’ and insert: ‘notes the programme for expenditure proposals for 2024-25 as announced by the Minister of Finance and set out in the Budget document laid before the Assembly on 20 May 2024; further notes the ongoing engagement with HM Treasury and the…
Thank you very much, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to the Alliance Party for bringing this issue to the Floor of the Assembly today, because I want to acknowledge the vital contribution of our junior doctors to the health service, their commitment and expertise and the long hours that their jobs have…
I thank the Chair for her comments. I spoke with Nigel yesterday regarding the event. Simon's voice was used in some of the video evidence that was given to the inquiry and, yesterday, when the findings of the report were being presented. Northern Ireland has a number of advocates and champions for that group, but…
I thank the Member for that point. In the report that was published yesterday, Sir Brian included a wide-ranging recommendation that a statutory duty of candour be placed on government and Executives. There are other recommendations regarding the duty of candour, and, as the Member said, it has been referred to in…
Principal Deputy Speaker, with your indulgence, I have a substantial answer to the Member's question because I had hoped to bring a fuller statement to the Assembly to follow up on the announcement on compensation, which was made just a few hours ago. Supporting victims of contaminated blood has always been one of my…
I thank the Member for his question. He may be aware that, when I was in Westminster yesterday, I engaged, as I have said on a number of occasions, with Ministers from the Department of Health and Social Care and with the shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting. I highlighted the concerns…
I will follow up on the Member's question for priority written answer, because I am sure that it has been asked not for any headline-grabbing opportunity but owing to a real concern that has been raised with him. I assure the House and the Member that I will follow up on that.
I thank the Member for his detailed question about risdiplam. I will need to get back to him in writing about that, because I do not have information in front of me about that specific medication. I hope that the Member accepts that. I will revert to him in writing. Does he have a supplementary question in which he…