All of Ms Sian Mulholland’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of pupils in (i) primary; and (ii) post-primary, schools in the North Antrim constituency, recorded as receiving (a) Stage one; and (b) Stage two, intervention, under the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice, broken down by school, for each academic year from…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of pupils in (i) primary; and (ii) post-primary, schools in the North Antrim constituency, who have a Statement of Special Educational Needs, broken down by school, in each academic year from 2019-2020 to present.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of hours of (i) classroom assistant; and (ii) learning support assistant, provision allocated to each (a) primary; and (b) post-primary, school, in the North Antrim constituency, for each academic year from 2019-2020 to present.
I thank the Minister for the very welcome statement; I am delighted to see that step towards my colleague Danny Donnelly's Member's Bill on the UNCRPD. Will the Minister give an idea of the timeline? What will come first? A wee bit of clarity would be useful on whether the recruitment for the disability forum will…
Deputy First Minister, I appreciate your answer. There is a real fear about hidden harm, especially in rural and semi-rural communities. You mentioned the planned interventions, but can there be an evaluation of whether an extension to the existing programmes, such as Urban Villages and Communities in Transition,…
We are a region with a proud agricultural heritage, and I have such a deep respect for our farmers, who work every day in every season to feed the rest of us and the countries further afield where our food is exported. They deserve honesty, and the motion does not provide that. It reads like another attempt to undo…
Thank you, Minister. You talked a wee bit about information-sharing and the sharing of knowledge. Has there been any discussion around the sharing of information on disqualified drivers?
Minister, is it still your intention to provide the Minister of Justice with first call at the next monitoring round in relation to the moneys that were hoped for for PSNI recruitment?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the hospitals (i) with a Changing Places toilet facility, including where the facility is located within the hospital; and (ii) which do not currently have a Changing Places toilet facility.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to outline any actions their Department is taking to ensure rural and semi-rural communities in North Antrim, which are impacted by paramilitarism and drugs, benefit from equivalent investment and support.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of the UK Government’s announcement that the two-child limit in Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit will be abolished, to detail (i) any specific actions he intends to take in the next 30 days; and (ii) any further measures he will put in place before the end of this…
To ask the Minister for Communities, following the UK Government’s decision to abolish the two-child limit in Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit, to detail (i) the projected additional cost to the existing benefit cap mitigation arising from potential increases in entitlement for larger families; (ii) whether he…
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of the UK Government’s decision to abolish the two-child limit in Universal Credit and Child Tax Credit, to detail any impact this change will have on the future (i) design; and (ii) funding requirements, of the welfare mitigation package.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the timetable for (i) publication; and (ii) implementation, of the Children and Young People’s Strategy Delivery Plan 2024–2028, in line with the duties under the Children’s Services Co-operation Act (NI) 2015.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any analysis undertaken of in-cash and in-kind child-contingent benefits in ROI, including whether similar supports could be modelled for NI.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any assessment his Department has made of the economic cost of child poverty in Northern Ireland as a proportion of GDP, similar to the Economic and Social Research Institute's estimate of 3.9 per cent in the Republic of Ireland.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he has considered introducing and routinely publishing poverty indicators for Northern Ireland, as in the Republic of Ireland, which measure at-risk-of-poverty, enforced deprivation and consistent poverty.
To ask the Minister for Communities for his assessment of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Trussell's Guarantee Our Essentials campaign, which calls for a guaranteed minimum income within Universal Credit.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) any estimate his Department has made of the total value of unclaimed social security benefits; and (ii) any steps being taken to increase uptake.
I thank Mr Kearney for bringing this issue to the Floor. I echo the comments made by my colleague John Blair, who has long championed the need for safe, modern and accessible mental health services across our shared trust area. It speaks volumes when you have representatives from three constituencies who are all…