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 thank the Minister for that answer. I know that he appreciates that a functioning Invest NI alone does not represent regional balance and that it has a much wider remit than that and is about not just his Department, as other Departments have to come in beside him to commit money and resources with him in order to…
The task force will produce a paper in September. The funds that are in place do not take into consideration recommendations that may come from the task force. Minister, are you confident that you will have money to put towards the expansion?
I am delighted to mark a historic day for Northern Ireland. Tonight, my friend and colleague Lilian Seenoi-Barr becomes the first black mayor in Northern Ireland. Lilian's appointment is first and foremost a mark of her personal tenacity and resilience. Anyone who has met her knows that she is simply relentless.…
Ms McLaughlin asked the Minister, given that the Assembly is looking forward to scrutinising the subregional economic action plan to be published in September, whether he will ensure that the objectives and actions of the plan do not relate solely to Invest NI.
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on the implementation of the recommendations from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care Services in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the representations he has made to his Executive colleagues in relation to the Sub-Regional Economic Action Plan; and (ii) the outcome of those representations.
To ask the Minister for the Economy how he intends to increase (i) the number of Higher Level Apprenticeships; and (ii) the proportion of those apprenticeships in places of higher deprivation.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to detail his Department’s plans for the use of social prescribing across Health and Social Care Trusts; (ii) for his assessment of the value of social prescribing link workers; and (iii) what steps he will take to increase the number of social prescribing link workers.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to detail the number of junior doctors that undertook placements in each of the last five years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) for his assessment of whether this regional distribution impacts health inequalities.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) to detail the number of his departmental officials that are involved in the drafting of the Sub-Regional Economic Action Plan; (ii) whether the objectives and actions contained in this plan will be limited to those taken forward by Invest NI; and (iii) how he will ensure the…
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) to list the interventions his Department has taken in response to the 2021 study on Artificial Intelligence, commissioned by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, which found that all government districts, other than Belfast, Lisburn and Castlereagh, Derry…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any occasions, since the restoration of the Executive, that he has written to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, or any Minister in that Department, to seek a full devolution of the levelling up agenda; and (ii) the outcome of those…
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 10017/22-27, to detail the dates, since the restoration of the Assembly, on which he has held formal meetings with the (i) Minister of Health; (ii) Minister of Justice; (iii) Minister of Education; and (iv) Minister for Communities in relation to regional balance,…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) the number of the 35 strategic actions, formulated in response to the Independent Review of Invest NI, that have been met; and (ii) the interventions that have been completed.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) for his assessment of the return on investment on arts and culture interventions; and (ii) what direction he has provided to the Arts Council NI in relation to regional balance since taking office.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the organisations that have received financial support from the Arts Council in each of the last ten years, broken down by (i) the amount of funding awarded to each organisation; and (ii) the local council area the organisations are based.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) how he will ensure the new Culture, Arts and Heritage Strategy considers the value of funding specific arts and culture interventions in areas of highest deprivation; and (ii) what measures will be used to assess the areas where funding should be directed.
Thank you very much, Mr Speaker; I was not expecting that either. As we debate the Budget, I want to acknowledge that it is good that the Assembly is in the position to discuss government spending priorities and exercise our legislative scrutiny role. At the start of this year, that was by no means guaranteed; indeed,…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) her engagements with (a) the Lady Chief Justice; and (b) the Commissioner for Victims of Crime in relation to the issue of family courts since the restoration of the Assembly in February 2024; and (ii) the outcome of those engagements.
To ask the Minister of Justice for her assessment of (i) the progress made in tackling child sexual exploitation since the publication of the 2020 report from the Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland on Child Sexual Exploitation in Northern Ireland; and (ii) whether appropriate data collation and monitoring is…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the steps he is taking to (i) ensure children and young people can access Palforzia for severe nut allergies; and (ii) support young people and their families who have been diagnosed with a severe nut allergy.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail his Department’s engagement with the UK government on the UK Shared Prosperity Fund since taking office, including on how many occasions his officials have met with their counterparts in the UK government on this scheme.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) for a breakdown of the purpose of the (a) capital; and (b) resource funding allocated by his Department for the expansion of the Ulster University Magee Campus in 2024-25; and (ii) to detail the quantum of funding that exists for the implementation of any recommendations from…