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 for Communities whether his Department applies the same Personal Independence Payment processing standards or expectations as the Department for Work and Pensions, including any benchmark that 75 per cent of new claims should be processed within 75 working days.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any action his Department is taking to increase access to Epilepsy Specialist Nurses across all Health and Social Care Trust areas.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department plans to develop an epilepsy register to improve data collection, service planning and patient care.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 45995/22-27, to detail the (i) scope; (ii) start date; (iii) expected completion date; and (iv) publication arrangements, for the ongoing route study of the A26 Lisnevenagh Road.
To ask the Minister of Health to outline any assessment that has been made of the role and capacity of social workers in delivering safeguarding, early intervention and family support services.
Thank you. I will move on, because we have talked quite a bit about the petition of concern, but I will let the Member for North Belfast know that I do not support just one or the other. That is not in my nature, and it is not my frame of reference. I do not know how many more times that I or other members of my party…
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Holy moly, it feels like a lifetime ago since I stood here to open debate on this group of amendments. First, I thank the Members who have contributed to the debate. I will make comments about the nature of the debate at a later point. Today has been what it was supposed to be. You will…
Does the Minister agree that, while some may have that perception of social work — softly-softly, nicey-nicey; sit on a beanbag — it is social workers who are at the coalface, doing the day-to-day heavy lifting? While other professions parachute in and out of a young person's life, social workers and youth…
Will the Member accept the criticism that, by giving the DPP that latitude, it does not give clarity and does not give a concise picture of what to expect? That was a lot of the criticism when we were looking at your amendment. With respect, the challenges were that it would be very difficult, be quite unworkable,…
Thank you. You talk about a young girl and her parents who want to seek justice. When I met representatives of Victim Support and, in particular, other women's organisations, the one thing that came out really clearly from them was that not all victims feel the same and that justice does not feel the same. They were…
For the most part, the exceptions are based on those that exist in other regions of these islands, such as the Republic of Ireland and Scotland. The amendment was modelled on what works and what the law is in the other regions. That is where the exceptions came from.
There are a couple of points to address there. The most recent one is this: I do nobody's bidding. I am not doing the Justice Minister's bidding. I came into the House as a former youth worker with a long-held passion for this subject, as, I am sure, every single one of my colleagues and those who served on councils…
Thank you, Minister. As others have said, any news of new homes being built is positive. Please take my question in the spirit in which it is meant: why was the £61·5 million of public loan support for this project not used for social houses? How do we know that this will be the best use of public money? Were these…
I will jump forward three pages in my speech, given that the Minister has outlined exactly and probably much more succinctly what I was going to say. There is also an implementation issue with amendment No 86, which was not mentioned. Setting a two-year time frame may sound reassuring, but it does not answer the…
Thank you. I will move on to serious harm, as we have been discussing. That is where some of the hardest questions will arise. That is why my amendment includes exceptions for: "murder, manslaughter, rape or assault by penetration". I recognise the seriousness of those offences, the public concern and the need for…
Not at all. I am saying that we need to intervene earlier to work out why they need that safe space. Why is prison safer than their home life and the places where they should be protected? For me, that is the bigger question, but I understand what the Minister — the Member has said.
Thank you, Kellie. Those stories go right the way through the system. I spoke to youth workers who work in prisons, and they said that they see young people committing crime specifically to be put back inside and be re-institutionalised because, in the words of one of them, it is the only safe place that they have…