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 Health (i) to detail the circumstances when GP practices are entitled to charge patients a fee for access to medical records; and (ii) for his assessment of the charging of patients for those records in any circumstance.
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on (i) the digitalisation of hospital and GP records; and (ii) the accessibility of those digital records to patients.
To ask the Minister of Education for a breakdown of the £25 million allocated to support a Childcare Strategy as announced in the Budget 2024-25, including the proportion of funding that will contribute towards immediate interventions for parents and providers.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 10591/22-27, for his assessment of (i) whether Ministers can legislate for other departments, subject to Executive approval; and (ii) any other criteria that should be met before Ministers can legislate for other departments.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether he has commissioned any research on the impact that unaffordable childcare has on (i) productivity; and (ii) economic inactivity in the economy.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Ban Petroleum Licensing and Fracking”
Ban Petroleum Licensing and Fracking - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘introduce’ and insert: ‘legislation to ban petroleum licensing, drilling and extraction before the end of 2024’.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to AQW 9477/22-27, whether they will guarantee funding will be restored to Women’s Aid Northern Ireland which is commensurate to the funding lost by the organisation from the Core Grant in 2023-24, regardless of whether the organisation is successful for…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether all Health and Social Care Trusts use both HPV primary screening and cytology in cervical screening processes; and (ii) how many severe adverse incidents in relation to cervical smear tests there have been in each of the last ten years, broken down by Health and Social Care…
To ask the Minister for the Economy for his assessment of whether his Department will reach 80 per cent of electricity consumption from renewable sources by 2030.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) how his Department is learning from the model of safe leave provision introduced in the Republic of Ireland; and (ii) whether his Department will provide training, advice and support for employers on workplace policy support and pathways to support for employees.
We talk a lot about the difficulties of reaching political agreement in this place and about how years of stop-start government and political dysfunction have frustrated progress on a whole range of issues. I do not think that there is any better example than the Maze/Long Kesh site. It is the perfect metaphor for the…
As you said, Minister, there are huge health benefits to decarbonisation. Some of our older housing stock is contributing to making people sick. People are coming into our offices with asthma and COPD, and, ultimately, that can be worked back to the state of their house. How can you address those health inequalities…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for his assessment of whether the current funding arrangements for graduate entry medical students presents challenges to workforce planning in the health service; (ii) whether he will ensure that graduate entry medical students can access student loans in the same way as students in…
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 9606/22-27, (i) why he is unable to list any departmental policies and strategies which include addressing regional economic imbalances as an objective, other than the proposed sub-regional economic plan; and (ii) to detail the process by which his Department’s…
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) for his assessment of the impact of the delivery of Levelling Up funding on the community and voluntary sector; and (ii) what steps he is taking in relation to the delivery of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund to community groups currently in receipt of it beyond the March 2025…
I am grateful for the opportunity to discuss RSE. Kate Nicholl succinctly and passionately set out the case for the motion, and my colleague Cara Hunter expanded on the need for consent education and clearly described the complexity around coercive control. As many have said, education is absolutely foundational to…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) what steps he will take to ensure that women can have confidence in the accuracy of cervical screening tests; and (ii) whether he will commence a public inquiry into cervical cancer screening in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to his meeting on 25 March 2024 with representatives of the Christian Institute to discuss Relationships and Sexuality Education, to detail the representatives he will meet from the (i) women’s sector; (ii) LGBT+ sector; and (iii) youth sector in relation to this issue.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 9367/22-27, for his assessment on whether Ministers, upon consultation with other Executive Ministers, can legislate for other departments.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to AQW 9716/22-27, to detail the job title of the official who acts as the strategic lead for regional balance in his Department; and (ii) how his Department measures the degree to which all officials at all grades are taking regional balance into account in all aspects of…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister what steps they will take to implement an integrated marketing campaign to ensure that victims and survivors, living both inside and outside Northern Ireland, are aware of entitlements to redress, support and services.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether they will commission a prevalence study of non-recent child sexual abuse, as suggested by the Commissioner for Victims and Survivors.