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Ms Sinéad McLaughlin: Assembly records
All of Ms Sinéad McLaughlin’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Minister, your predecessor recognised that deprivation and regional inequality have a direct impact on health outcomes. With patients in Altnagelvin Area Hospital facing lengthy waits for hip surgery and everything else, what are you doing to ensure that that inequality is not being compounded by unequal access to…
To ask the Minister for Communities when he last met the Minister for Infrastructure in relation to wastewater infrastructure hindering housing development.
Does the Member not agree that Second Stage is about discussing the principles of a Bill? Everything that we have heard from nearly every Member on his side of the House has gone into the minutiae of the Bill. It is for the Committee to do that, if those Members could release the Bill and let it go to Committee. The…
A few weeks ago, during the féile, I sat in a room in Creggan with the brilliant Sure Start team and listened to Dr Claire Sinton talk about smartphones and what they are doing to our children. I will be honest: it really shook me. Dr Sinton is not a campaigner looking for headlines; she is a talented and wonderful…
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank Members across the House for their contributions to what has been a short debate but an important conversation. I make it clear that the motion is not anti-AI or anti-investment. Artificial intelligence has enormous potential. Stewart Dickson outlined, and other…
I want to be absolutely clear that what we are talking about is that, before large-scale development takes place around data centres, we need to entirely understand and be reasonable. What are the consequences, and will there be economic benefits? Today, modern data centres can be built on a green policy and a very…
— are not moving forward. Do you regret taking so long to bring the draft Bill to the Executive, and do you regret the fact that the delays could set workers' rights back years?
Minister, the public spat between you and the business community has been unedifying. A part of political leadership is finding consensus in difficult situations, yet the delayed 'good jobs' Bill did not reach the Executive until April. In the meantime, workers across the North have fallen even further behind their…
Ms McLaughlin asked the Minister for the Economy, given that the 'good jobs' Bill is going nowhere, workers are being denied new rights, businesses remain in uncertainty and relationships between the business community and trade unions are arguably worse now than ever before, whether she regrets how the process has…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether she will consider introducing an earlier morning rail service from Derry to Belfast, in order to better accommodate commuters and passengers making onward connections.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether any assessment has been made of the impact of clinical radiology, including the wider diagnostic workforce shortages in the Western Health and Social Care Trust on performance against the 62-day cancer referral to treatment target; and (ii) to detail any steps being taken to…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any regional balance criteria that is used for her Department’s funding of Workplus apprenticeship programmes; and (ii) any steps her Department takes to ensure funding and apprenticeship opportunities are equitably distributed across all regions of Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any assessment that has been made of the regional distribution of participation in Workplus apprenticeship programmes, including in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank everyone for their contributions today. On the whole, the debate was widely positive, and I was really encouraged by many of the comments from across the Chamber. I want to address some of the recurring comments made by Members, because there are many issues that we have…
Thank you, Minister, for giving way. I just want to mention the judicial review, which you raised with me earlier. Any public authority exercising any statutory power can potentially be subject to judicial review. The threat of review should not prevent us taking forward legislation. It is about ensuring that we put…
I really like what you are saying about the data. In such tight financial times, how we spend our money is really important, because we need to know what the impact of the spending will be and how it will improve people's lives. At this point, I am not entirely convinced that we spend money to get the best outcomes…
Thank you for giving way, Julie, and for your support for the Bill. I reaffirm that the Bill is structured in such a way that every Department has a duty and a responsibility to feed information in. From the outset, the framework will have objectives, and the Executive must say what they want to achieve. There have to…
Sorry: I do not know where you read that in the Bill. I have not said that at all. The Bill is not about duplicating Belfast and creating multiple Belfasts: we know that different regions have different barriers and require different interventions. It is not about creating a mirror copy of anything. Fivemiletown will…
I will add that, at the moment, rural communities face higher fuel costs, higher transport costs and challenges with accessing services. Those are added expenses when one lives in rural communities, and those drive up poverty. There are lots of stats on rural poverty, and it increases the further one gets from the…