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 for Infrastructure (i) for his Department’s assessment of the condition of (a) Strand Road; (b) Fannad Drive; (c) Park Avenue; (d) Rosemount Avenue; (e) Fountain Hill; and (f) Iniscarn Road, Derry; and (ii) whether they will be prioritised as part of future resurfacing schemes.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether they will allocate funding to Women’s Aid Northern Ireland which is commensurate to the funding lost by the organization from the Core Grant.
To ask the Minister of Education (i) for his assessment of the results of the survey released by Melted Parents NI on 22 March 2024; (ii) whether he will provide any financial support to families to assist them with increased childcare costs; and (iii) whether he will meet with the group to discuss these findings.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for an update on (i) the findings of the Review of the Northern Ireland Postgraduate Tuition Fee Loan; and (ii) the implementation of those findings.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, pursuant to his comments at the Committee for the Economy meeting on 20 March 2024, why it is his understanding that he is unable to legislate for other Departments, given that Clause 4 of the Parental Bereavement (Leave and Pay) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 confers duties on the…
To ask the Minister for the Economy for his assessment of the affordability of the business case, received from College Chief Executive Officers and Governing Body Chairs, for a pay award to further education lecturers.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the number of staff employed by his Department, broken down by the Assembly constituency where they are based.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether he will review his Department’s gully cleaning protocol to ensure that residents in areas with a high proportion of on-street parking are given suitable notice in advance of any gully cleaning.
To ask the Minister of Health whether a Health and Social Care Trust can regrade a role to a lower banding and subsequently reduce the salary of an affected employee.
I thank the Member for taking an intervention. Does the Member think it is negative to state facts or that it is OK to come in here and brush over actual economic facts? It should be about delivery. We are not saying it in a negative sense. We are saying that this needs to be fixed. We, collectively, need to fix it…
I welcome the motion and our amendment on the need for ambitious targets for job creation. It is often said that what you do not measure, you cannot achieve, and that is no truer than when considering the change that is needed in our economy. Whether that change is to our stubbornly high rate of economic inactivity,…
Minister, I am pleased to hear that that is the direction of travel. However, you will appreciate that lecturers are absolutely livid at the minute about the differentiation in pay between teaching staff and those in colleges. They are teaching people on the higher level apprenticeship programme who are being paid…
Ms McLaughlin asked the Minister for the Economy whether he agrees with the principle of pay parity between further education lecturers and school teaching staff, given that he will be keenly aware of the challenges facing further education lecturers and their ask for that pay parity.
To ask the Minister of Education what steps he will take to support childcare providers in advance of the increase in the National Minimum Wage in April.
To ask the Minister of Education (i) whether he will allocate the relevant funding for the Education Authority Pay and Grading Review; and (ii) what further steps he will take to support education support service workers.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether he has plans to work with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency to collate data on the number of people with post-16 qualifications who (i) stayed in; or (ii) returned to the towns they grew up in, similar to those statistics recently introduced by the Office…