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 what action he is taking (i) to improve access to blood tests for those experiencing symptoms of leukaemia; and (ii) to encourage uptake of the training available to GPs about the diagnosis of leukaemia.
To ask the Minister of Education what steps she has taken to ensure that girls in primary and secondary education are afforded the choice over whether to wear skirts or trousers to school.
To ask the Minister of Justice what steps she will take to act on the findings in the research published by Women’s Aid following its Come Together to End Domestic Abuse: a survey of UK attitudes to domestic abuse 2022.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) when the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine will be available in Northern Ireland; (ii) how many doses will be available; and (iii) how individuals will be able to access it.
To ask the Minister for Communities what steps his Department is taking to ensure that customers who are struggling with debt are pro-actively identified and referred to appropriate advice, as per the recommendation in the Women’s Regional Consortium’s Women Living with Debt report.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether his Department will look at ways of improving access to affordable credit for low income families as a way of reducing reliance on high cost lending, as per the recommendation in the Women’s Regional Consortium’s Women Living with Debt report.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether his Department has carried out research into the financial wellbeing of higher and further education students and apprentices, over the last five years.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) when the maintenance loan available for undergraduate students last increased; and (ii) what assessment he has made of the need to increase the maintenance loan with inflation, given the cost of living crisis.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) what assessment his Department has made of the accessibility to Higher Education Student Support Funds for students, including the extent to which the criteria for these funds appropriately take into consideration the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost of living crisis; and (ii)…
To ask the Minister for the Economy for his assessment of the Women Living with Debt Report by the Women’s Regional Consortium and whether the findings will inform the work of his Department going forward.
To ask the Minister for the Economy for the total amount of funding allocated by his Department to Higher Education Student Support Funds for each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) what action his Department is taking to improve the punctuality of the Derry to Belfast train line; and (ii) whether he will commit to introducing an hourly train service on the Derry to Belfast train line on Sundays.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure (i) how many customers have received compensation through the Translink Delay-Repay scheme on each of the five routes in the last 12 months; (ii) whether his Department records an estimation of the number of customers eligible for compensation under the Delay-Repay scheme; and…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether she will undertake to work with her Ministerial colleagues to mandate hospitality venues to provide spiking testing kits.
To ask the Minister of Health what steps he has taken to secure the necessary funding for the continuation of the Republic of Ireland Reimbursement Scheme.
To ask the Minister for the Economy (i) whether he has had any engagement with relevant Ministers or officials in the UK government on the lowering of the VAT rate for tourism and hospitality businesses; and (ii) what the outcome of that engagement has been.
To ask the Minister for Communities what consideration she has given to the benefits of a Child Payment Scheme, similar to the one in place in Scotland.
To ask the Minister of Health what steps his Department is taking to support students of health and life sciences during the current cost of living crisis.