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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 flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether he will initiate a formal review of (i) the pay of further education lecturers; (ii) their terms and conditions; and (iii) the parity between those lecturers and school teachers.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of the Career or Care report released by the Carer Poverty Commission, (i) for his assessment of the challenges faced by unpaid carers in navigating the social security system; and (ii) any steps he will take in relation to those challenges.
Will the Minister commit to allocating all of the required funding to ensure that the city deal project can be pursued in full, rather than being scaled down because of inflationary pressures and the delay in bringing forward the cases?
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) how barriers to investment identified by Invest NI, which fall under the policy remit of departments other than the Department for the Economy, are effectively reported to those departments; and (ii) what steps his Department is taking to ensure action is taken by other…
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) how he will work with employers on the challenges facing unpaid carers; and (ii) whether he will introduce tailored employability programs to support and retrain carers who wish to return to employment after a caring role has ended or reduced.
To ask the Minister for the Economy how he will improve support for unpaid carers to access further and higher education through financial support, such as bursaries and increased availability of part time and online courses.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether he will instruct officials to conduct a desk-based review of existing departmental strategies with the view to determining whether they appropriately prioritise regional economic balance.
Minister, placing an investment zone throughout the whole of Northern Ireland will not address the lack of regional balance effectively. We need positive discrimination and incentives for places, such as the north-west, that have been left behind for decades.
We have all been here before. Violence against women and girls is a crime, and it has become endemic in our society, in our homes and on our streets. The violence has been fuelled by the toxic legacy of our past and the deeply misogynistic culture in our society. The violence has gone unaddressed by government here,…
Ms McLaughlin asked the Minister for the Economy to commit to ensuring that the British Government place an investment zone in the north-west city region, given that investment zones are exactly the type of positive discrimination and incentive needed to deliver regional equality, with the north-west’s being the first…
To ask the Minister of Finance for her assessment of the appropriateness of the current rules on the use of Financial Transactions Capital, given the significant underspend in recent years.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for a breakdown of the organisations affected by the loss of European Social Funding, broken down by (i) Assembly constituency; and (ii) amount of funding lost.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) for his assessment of the challenges facing student renters; and (ii) what steps he will take in relation to those challenges.
Executive Reform That this Assembly is ashamed of the long suspensions of devolution over the last ten years; accepts responsibility for the decline in public services that have taken place over that time; apologises to public sector workers who have experienced pay injustice over the last ten years; resolves that the…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Implementation of the Strategic Framework to End Violence against Women and Girls”
Implementation of the Strategic Framework to End Violence against Women and Girls - Amendment 2 At end insert: ‘; and further calls on the Executive to urgently agree an ambitious funding package for the implementation of the Framework to ensure it can meet its objectives in full.’
To ask the Minister of Education (i) how the Early Learning and Childcare Strategy will be informed by comparison exercises with early education and childcare systems in European Union countries; and (ii) what engagements he will have with governments in the European Union to inform this strategy.
To ask the Minister of Education how he intends to work with the Minister for Communities to ensure a joined-up approach between Departments on the (i) Early Learning and Childcare Strategy; and (ii) Anti-Poverty Strategy.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) for his assessment of the recent changes to North South Student Mobility, introduced by the Republic of Ireland’s Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science; and (ii) what further steps he intends to take on this issue in order to increase…
To ask the Minister of Justice (i) for her assessment of the provisions of Section 12 of the Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 which provides for suspect anonymity 25 years after the date of the suspect’s death; and (ii) for a timeframe after which she will consider…
To ask the Minister of Justice whether she will allocate funding to Women’s Aid Northern Ireland which is commensurate to the funding lost by the organisation from the Core Grant.