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Mr Stephen Dunne: Assembly records
All of Mr Stephen Dunne’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of consultant neuro-oncology posts, including the number that are vacant; and (ii) any steps being taken to ensure sufficient specialist capacity to support brain tumour patients.
To ask the Minister of Health whether (i) the Cancer Research Strategic Framework contains any actions specifically targeted at improving outcomes for patients with brain tumours; and (ii) any consideration will be given to developing a dedicated brain tumour research programme.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail whether any (i) assessment has been made of GP awareness and training in relation to the signs and symptoms of brain tumours; (ii) consideration has been given to issuing additional guidance or training to GPs; and (iii) steps are being taken to improve referral pathways for…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether any assessment has been made of the reasons as to why a significant proportion of brain tumours are diagnosed through emergency presentation rather than established referral pathways; (ii) to detail any steps that are being taken to improve earlier diagnosis; and (iii) whether…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any mechanisms in place to support investigator-led clinical trials of off-patent medicines for patients with life-limiting conditions, including brain tumours; (ii) any dedicated funding that is available for such studies; and (iii) whether any assessment has been made of…
Does the First Minister now accept the principle that elected reps cannot simply pick and choose which court or lawful decisions they wish to obey according to whether they agree with them, even if they are the so-called, self-styled First Minister for all or some?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the average time taken to obtain a definitive pathological and molecular diagnosis following brain tumour surgery, in each of the last five years; (ii) whether any assessment has been made of the rapid genomic brain tumour testing pilot recently launched by NHS England; and…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of clinical trials for brain tumour patients that have been available, in each of the last five years, including the number of patients that have participated in those trials; and (ii) any steps being taken to increase access to clinical trials for patients with…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail whether any consultant, clinician or research team has explored the feasibility of conducting a clinical trial of repurposed medicines for patients with high-grade gliomas, in the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the amount of funding that has been allocated specifically to brain tumour research, in each of the last five years, including the proportion of total cancer research funding this represented; and (ii) any steps being taken to increase investment in brain tumour research.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any funding streams that are available for investigator-led brain tumour clinical trials; and (ii) the number of applications for such funding that have been received, in each of the last five years, including the number that were successful.
I thank the Minister for his answer. The Minister will hopefully be aware that more than £27 million was recorded in the "write off/write on" category last year alone, which is an increase of more than 50% on the previous year. At a time when our Executive are under significant financial pressures, does the Minister…
Mr Dunne asked the Minister of Finance what steps his Department is taking to ensure that public money owed in rates is recovered, given that, in a recent answer to a question for written answer from his colleague Diane Forsythe, the Minister revealed that almost £90 million in rates was written off over the last five…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any steps his Department is taking to improve protection and support teachers from physical violence and abuse from pupils.
I thank the Member for giving way. Does the Member agree that there are lessons to be learned by the organisers of the féile from the success and positivity of the fleadh?
I appreciate the update on the former Cotton Primary School building. There is scope for it to be further secured and for some maintenance around it. The former St Anne's Primary School building in Donaghadee, which is just five minutes from the site that has been mentioned, closed in 2023: is the Minister able to…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the underlying reasons for the underperformance on delivery of the target of 5,000 pupils for completing cycling proficiency training.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any additional measures that she is considering to increase the number of available practical driving tests, including (i) the recruitment of additional driving examiners; (ii) the use of temporary or additional testing capacity; and (iii) the expected impact of any…