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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.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people currently awaiting a first adult mental health assessment in each Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any measures her Department is taking to prevent long-term damage to (i) apprenticeship provision; (ii) employer confidence; and (iii) Northern Ireland’s skills infrastructure, following recent and potential future reductions in ApprenticeshipsNI funding.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether her Department has assessed the risk that continued reductions to ApprenticeshipsNI funding could result in independent training providers (i) reducing services; (ii) making redundancies; and (iii) ceasing trading altogether.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any assessment that her Department undertook of the impact that the removal of ApprenticeshipsNI funding for existing employees, will have on (i) independent training providers; (ii) employers; and (iii) apprentices, across Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether any assessment has been made of whether SONI and NIE Networks have the resources and policy framework required to deliver the electricity grid needed to facilitate 80 per cent renewable electricity consumption by 2030, in line with the target set out in the Climate Change…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any assessment that has been made of the impact of (i) the Utility Regulator (Support for Decarbonisation Preparation) Bill on the Offshore Renewable Energy Bill; and (ii) any delay of the Bill could have on the timetable for the Offshore Renewable Energy Bill.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) the amount of any payments made to residences along the A6 route for (a) the vesting of land; and (b) any other forms of compensation; and (ii) whether any payments to affected residents remain outstanding.
Today is an important day because it is a day of accountability. I welcome to the Gallery all of the birth mothers, all of the adult adoptees and all of their family members. I thank everyone who has journeyed with you and loved you throughout the process. After a long legislative process, we have reached the Final…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any guidance that is provided to Health and Social Care Trusts in relation to communication with patients following miscarriage, particularly for appointment notifications and follow-up care.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) whether student loan interest continues to accrue during periods of maternity leave or extended sickness absence, due to a disability; and (ii) whether she will undertake an assessment of the impact of this on equality outcomes.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) whether, following the agreement between the UK and Irish Governments to disregard payments under Ireland’s Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme for the purposes of means-tested benefits, his Department will align with the Department for Work and Pensions; and…
At first glance, the regulations appear to be highly technical, but behind them is something profoundly important. They are about ensuring that parents who experience the unimaginable loss of a child do not lose access to the support that, the Assembly has already agreed, they should receive. None of us wants to…
I want to speak about a deeply disappointing and completely unnecessary decision. Last weekend, Dublin celebrated Pride with the participation of every Irish government Department. More remarkably, last weekend, Pride was celebrated in Hungary. They celebrated diversity, equality and inclusion in the face of growing…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the current (i) average; and (ii) median, waiting times for a first adult mental health assessment, in each Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any consideration has been given to allocating speciality training places by whole-time equivalent numbers rather than by headcount, to facilitate greater use of slot sharing and maximise existing training capacity within health and social care.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department collects or holds any data on adverse outcomes or deterioration in mental health, among individuals while waiting for a mental health assessment.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any action her Department is taking to reduce untreated sewage discharges into rivers in the Foyle Constituency; and (ii) any targets that have been set to reduce the frequency and duration of such discharges.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any assessment that has been made of the Duke Street Roundabout Combined Sewer Overflow, following the publication of data showing that it discharged untreated sewage on 93 occasions for a total duration of 943 hours over the past year; and (ii) any plans that are…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the current average waiting time for miscarriage investigation services, including blood tests and follow up appointments, in each Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any standard process that is in place for follow-up care and investigations for women who have experienced recurrent miscarriage, including expected timelines for appointments and communications.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department is giving any consideration to the inclusion of safeguards and quality standards as part of the development of any future adult ADHD services.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any arrangements that are in place between her Department, the PSNI and local councils, to facilitate the safe removal of flags attached to Departmental street furniture, where staff safety concerns have been identified.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on the proposed resurfacing works on the Strand Road, Derry, including when these works are now expected to take place.
The SDLP will support amendment No 96 and oppose amendment No 97. On amendment No 96, the Chamber should ask itself a simple question: are we setting people up to succeed when they leave prison, or are we setting them up to fail? Rehabilitation begins not the week after someone is released but the moment they walk…
When the Bill was introduced, one of the concerns repeatedly raised by the survivors and their families was about the people who had suffered the same experiences, carried the same hurt and lived in the same institutions but did not live long enough to see this process. The concern has been raised time and time again…