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Ms Sian Mulholland: Assembly records
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.
Extending Welfare Supplementary Payments for the Benefit Cap That this Assembly agrees on the importance of extending welfare supplementary payments for the benefit cap beyond the pending cliff edge in March 2025; recognises that mitigating the benefit cap is an important protection against poverty and hardship for…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Failure of RAISE Programme in Tackling Educational Underachievement”
Failure of RAISE Programme in Tackling Educational Underachievement - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘further regrets that’ and insert: ‘this programme may not deliver based on objective need; calls on the Minister of Education to urgently review the criteria for the targeting of the RAISE programme to ensure that…
To ask the Minister of Education whether Operation Encompass can be used to support children and young people at risk from the threat of paramilitaries or child criminal exploitation.
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) to detail the number of children, aged between 10 and 17 inclusive, that have been charged with (a) serious sexual assault; (b) rape; and (c) murder, in the last five years: and (ii) to detail the number of children that have been found guilty of those said crimes.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail all (i) court prosecutions; and (ii) out of court diversionary disposals for children in each of the last three years, broken down by age group between the age of 10 and 17.
I welcome the changes to our Standing Orders, as someone who had to return to work when my baby was just five weeks old after the return of the House in February. I was unable to legally drive myself to the Building: I was still healing, physically and mentally, from major surgery and also had the day-to-day fog that…
Thank you, Minister, for this. I will be brief because I know that we do not have much time. I do not see anything written about the update on a mother-and-baby unit, which is absolutely essential to postnatal care, particularly for women who are experiencing psychological illness. Will you give us an update on that?
Thank you, Minister, for your answers so far. We have waited 10 years for the online careers portal, and progress on the 14-19 framework has been heavily criticised in a Northern Ireland Audit Office report on skills. What is the Minister planning to do to get that back on track?
I congratulate Carey Faughs GAC on winning the intermediate hurling final on Saturday afternoon. First, though, I want to send commiserations. It was the beeziest pitch-side experience I have ever had, yesterday afternoon, when Dunloy faced Cushendall. I have been told to congratulate Cushendall on behalf of my…
To ask the Minister of Health whether there are any plans for jointly-commissioned services to engage in a single reporting protocol instead of multiple, different reporting procedures to various Departments.
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on the Sign Language Bill, including the policy area in his Department that will take this work forward.
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on his engagement with key stakeholders to develop a policy to inform the drafting of sign language legislation.
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 1 Leave out all after ‘calls on the Minister of Education’ and insert: ‘to work with the Minister of Health and local councils to bring forward a plan to end vaping in school grounds, reduce the number of young people vaping and eradicate the sale…
I support the motion because it is clear, as others have said, that we are in a housing crisis. Whilst I agree with so much that was said across the Chamber today, I do not think that I can add much, particularly after my colleague and self-professed housing nerd, Kellie Armstrong, made some key points about how this…
I recognise the essential role that the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice plays in the lives of children with life-limiting conditions and the families who love and care for them. The hospice provides not only critical palliative care for those children but much-needed emotional and practical support for families…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Failure to Produce a River Basin Management Plan”
Failure to Produce a River Basin Management Plan - Amendment 2 Leave out all after ‘highlighted’ and insert: ‘the importance of cross-departmental and cross-agency efforts to address water quality issues, the deterioration of river and lake ecosystems, and pollution; recognises that actions to achieve sustainable…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Declaration of a Housing Emergency”
Declaration of a Housing Emergency - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘local communities’ and insert: ‘, the failure to tackle divided housing provision, planning delays and the lack of an effective Empty Homes Strategy; expresses regret at the failure to deliver previous targets aimed at increasing the supply of safe,…
I thank the Minister. I am delighted that he is bringing jobs to the best of the Antrim constituencies — it is great to see — but I take on board some of the other comments. What length of contracts are we talking about? Are they fixed term? Are they permanent? Do you know whether they will be a mix of part-time,…
Minister, will you give us your assessment of the impact that short-term lets and the likes of unregulated holiday homes and Airbnbs will have on tourism, particularly along the north coast, where we have such a difficulty with our housing crisis?
I cannot help but feel an overwhelming sense of frustration and disappointment. It is 16 months since the publication of the independent review of children's social care services — the same length of time that it took Ray Jones to gather his evidence and compile that thorough report — yet here we are discussing the…