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.
I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Executive's legislative programme. It is good that, after almost 130 days, we finally have a bit more clarity on what exactly the Executive intend to do in the remaining time in the session. There is a lot in the programme that I welcome and would like to see progressed as…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the subject of all papers his Department has submitted to the Early Learning and Childcare Task and Finish Group since the group was established; and (ii) the dates on which these papers were submitted.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) how he intends to address regional health inequalities, including to close the life expectancy gap between the most and least deprived areas of Northern Ireland; and (ii) any specific steps he intends to take in relation to the North West.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) for his assessment of the funding challenges faced by the Supporting People programme; and (ii) whether he will consider allocating any further funding to this programme.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Energy Market”
Energy Market - Amendment 1 At end insert: ‘; and further calls on the Minister to work with the Minister for Communities to agree a large-scale social housing retrofit programme to reduce domestic fossil fuel consumption and increase energy efficiency, starting with communities in highest disadvantage, and to make a…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on the public consultation on the draft optimum remediation strategy for the site at Mobuoy.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister (i) why junior Ministers have not provided an oral briefing to the Committee for the Executive Office since the restoration of the Assembly; and (ii) to detail the areas of responsibility of each junior Minister.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for an update on the development of a Women’s Health Action Plan; and (ii) for his assessment of the merits of commissioning a comprehensive Women’s Health Strategy.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the match funding provided by Executive departments to projects funded by European Social Funding in each year since 2016, broken down by (i) Department; and (ii) amount of funding provided.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 8835/22-27, (i) for his assessment of the main successes of the Enterprise Zone designation at Coleraine; and (ii) whether any lessons have been learned for the proposal for an Enhanced Investment Zone designation.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the steps he is taking to support Employment and Support Allowance claimants with the upcoming migration to Universal Credit.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to AQW 10864/22-27, how they will ensure that alleviating regional economic imbalance is addressed by all government departments, including through the (i) Programme for Government; and (ii) Legislative Programme.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to AQW 10493/22-27, when a decision will be made on the proposal for research into the prevalence of non-recent child sexual abuse.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of (i) the progress of the recommendations of the June 2020 Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland report on Child Sexual Exploitation in Northern Ireland; and (ii) whether appropriate data collation and monitoring is in place to assess progress, including by the…
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) whether he has received an update from officials on the review of higher education funding; and (ii) when officials last met to discuss this review.
I would like to think that everyone in the Chamber will be united today in opposing conversion practices. That pseudoscience is nothing short of barbaric and is predicated on the idea that LGBT people need a cure. It has been termed as creating a "significant risk of torture" by the United Nations Independent Expert…
I beg to move Thank you, Mr Speaker. In proposing the motion on hate crime legislation, I particularly want to voice the SDLP call for such stand-alone legislation to be introduced within the next 12 months. Everyone across the Chamber is appalled by hate crime in all its forms. We all want to make progress on this…
To ask the Minister of Health what steps he is taking to support Health and Social Care Trusts in the recruitment and retention of Medical Technical Officers.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail the engagement she has had with (i) Executive colleagues; and (ii) HM Treasury in relation to the ring-fencing of Barnett consequentials on early education and childcare.
To ask the Minister of Finance (i) for an update on her plans to incorporate gender budgeting processes in her Department; and (ii) to detail any steps that were taken to incorporate gender budgeting in the development and agreement of Budget 2024-25.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) how much funding has been provided to Altram in each of the last five years; (ii) the steps he is taking to support the Irish-medium Early Years sector; and (iii) his Department’s assessment of whether this sector is fully funded.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the action is he undertaking, with the Minister for Communities, on the creation of household energy efficiency schemes; (ii) the dates on which he has undertaken engagement with the Minister for Communities on this issue; and (iii) the outcome of those engagements.
Thank you, Minister, for your answer. Your Department's implementation strategy for integrated education does not set any targets for the growth of integrated education or tell us how much money you are going to spend. However, your actions have told us that you are not serious about integrated education, because you…