All of Ms Sian Mulholland’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any assessment that has been undertaken of the cumulative annual cost of the proposed yLink changes for young people who depend on public transport to access university, further education, training or employment.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any information that Translink has provided to her Department on the additional revenue expected from reducing the yLink discount from 50 per cent to 33 per cent, including any assumptions made regarding passenger numbers and changes in travel behaviour.
To ask the Minister for Communities, using the most recent data available, to detail the (i) number; and (ii) proportion, of individual Universal Credit claimants who are in paid employment.
The nearest setting can be up to five miles away. What rural impact and concerns have been taken into account when looking at poverty and access to the provision?
I hope that the Minister is aware that universal credit is a working benefit. I have many constituents, as he does, who are both hard-working and in receipt of a benefit. The constant and consistent use of fake contrasts is really dehumanising. I will focus on rural settings. Social and economic disadvantage has a…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any actions, timescales and measurable outcomes that have been agreed under the Reform of Children’s Social Care Services Programme to strengthen early intervention and family support services as an alternative to increased child protection activity and rising numbers of…
To ask the Minister of Health whether any assessment has been made of current social work capacity to deliver safeguarding, early intervention and family support services, including (i) current vacancy rates; (ii) caseload pressures; (iii) waiting lists; and (iv) any unmet need identified, in each Health and Social…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of income his Department has received from allowing the use of Custom House Square for events, concerts and festivals, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 49312/22-27, to detail (i) a monthly breakdown, since the commencement of the Functional Assessment Service contract, of the number and proportion of aged Personal Independence Payment cases; and (ii) whether the contractual aged-case performance measure was met,…
I will use my final Member's statement before recess to reflect on the work of the Ten is Too Young Coalition and all those who have worked so passionately to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR), including Voice of Young People in Care, the Children's Law Centre, NIACRO, the Northern Ireland…
Safeguarding falls within your remit, Minister. We know that, but we also know that it is the responsibility of each and every one of us. That is part of the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995. Faith-based counselling is not subject to the same regulation as other clinical counselling services. That points to a…
Thank you, Minister. I am glad to hear you say that the role played by social workers is "complex and challenging". From what I hear from those who have contacted me, social workers are stretched to capacity. What is the Department doing to address that? Will you take the opportunity to refute your party leader's…
Ms Mulholland asked the Minister of Health, after stating that, even before the events of this week and last week, she had been writing to him for quite some time about safeguarding and the gaps in our safeguarding legislation, to commit to a review of our safeguarding legislation in order to make safeguarding…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether any contracts had been entered into in relation to the planned USA 250 concert at Belfast City Hall, before its cancellation.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of the funding allocated to the planned USA 250 concert at Belfast City Hall is recoverable following its cancellation.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of public money spent to date on the planned USA 250 concert at Belfast City Hall, broken down by (i) his Department's funding; (ii) Ulster-Scots Agency expenditure; (iii) Belfast City Council support; and (iv) any other public funding.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any due diligence that was undertaken by his Department before allocating funding to the planned USA 250 concert at Belfast City Hall, including assessment of (i) deliverability; (ii) artist availability; (iii) projected attendance; and (iv) value for money.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether headline acts had been (i) identified; (ii) approached; and (iii) provisionally secured, before the planned USA 250 concert at Belfast City Hall was publicly announced.
Thank you very much, First Minister. The recommendations in the review obviously laid out where that would sit better. In light of recent criticisms, by some commentators and politicians in the House, of the Children's Commissioner for robustly defending children's rights, does the First Minister agree that that…
I thank the Minister. I associate myself with the comments made by my colleague Nuala McAllister about Glynn Brown. I have also been thinking quite a lot about Timothy, Mervyn and Timothy's mum, Dawn. Minister, the scandal is yet another example of families being failed when they raise concerns about standards of…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any action his Department is taking to reduce the average processing time for Personal Independence Payment appeals, given that the average time taken from date appeal received to date disposed or closed, was 49.13 weeks in 2025-26.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any (i) contractual penalties; (ii) service credits; and (iii) other enforcement mechanisms, that are available to his Department in relation to Capita’s performance in delivering Personal Independence Payment assessments.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any specific (i) targets; and (ii) timescales, that have been agreed with Capita under its Personal Independence Payment recovery plan, including (a) expected monthly assessment volumes; (b) reductions in waiting times; and (c) the date by which performance is expected to…