All of Ms Sinéad McLaughlin’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 how the £50 million earmarked for early years and childcare in the Executive's Draft Budget 2025-26 will be spent.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQW 23951/22-27, how much of the £1.9 million total cost for the scheme was the net administration costs paid to providers.
To ask the Minister of Education how much of the £25 million package of measures to support children, parents and providers with early learning and childcare in 2024-25 represents the expenditure of net direct subsidy to parents under the Northern Ireland Childcare Subsidy Scheme.
To ask the Minister of Finance for an update on any discussions with the UK Treasury on the possible provision of Treasury reserve funding to the PSNI in order to meet the cost of claims against the organisation.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he has engaged with the Department for Work and Pensions in relation to the possible proposals that cash payments of Personal Independence Payment will be replaced by vouchers.
I thank the members of the Women's Caucus for bringing the motion to the Floor today in recognition of International Women's Day 2025. I also thank all those who are members of or are part of the all-party group on women, peace and security, which I have had the pleasure of chairing. Those members will know that the…
I thank the Member for giving way. I apologise for sickening everybody about my city and region, which I love well. I do not talk negatively about it all the time, but I will say something negative: the poverty rate in Derry sits at 24%. The Member is lucky: he represents a constituency that has half the poverty rate…
We have mentioned that dual market access should be promoted. E&I Engineering is operating on both sides of the border, and it is operating in the North because of dual market access. We know the value of it well.
I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. The subject of the motion is close to my heart and part of the reason why I entered public life. The SDLP motion calls for a dedicated economic task force to drive investment, skills and sectoral growth across the north-west. Having grown up in and spent the majority of my…
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department will consider implementing a Court of Protection to allow parents of a young person with disabilities to get a mental capacity assessment before the age of 18 years old.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) whether it is still her policy to expand Ulster University’s Magee campus to at least 10,000 students; and (ii) why the wording in the Programme for Government 2024-2027 states that the expansion of Magee will be up to 10,000 students.
It has been more than 13 years since the previous Programme for Government was published. I am glad that, finally, we have the opportunity to debate a finalised Programme for Government today, albeit it is one for the next 26 months, rather than for five years, as it should have been. I am also glad to read the…
I welcome Verona Murphy to the Assembly. Today marks the beginning of Endometriosis Awareness Month, which highlights an issue that is really close to my heart. One in 10 women will be impacted by endometriosis, which roughly translates to 1·5 million women in the UK. It could impact on anywhere up to 50,000 women in…
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether her Good Jobs Employment Rights Bill will be introduced to the Assembly by the end of the 2022-2027 mandate.