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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.
Minister, time and time again, you say that our prisons do not have a culture problem, but, time and time again, ordinary hard-working prison officers tell me that there is a fundamental problem in our prisons, with some prison wings out of control. Minister, have you lost control of Northern Ireland's prisons, and…
I congratulate Mr Michael Dunlop MBE on yet more incredible success. Last week, he won three races at the Isle of Man TT, bringing his record to an incredible 36 TT victories in a glittering career. The Isle of Man TT is revered as one of the toughest tests for competitor and machine in global motor sport, and it has…
My question stays on the theme of public transport. The Translink chief executive recently gave evidence to the Infrastructure Committee and warned of very serious consequences for future service delivery. Minister, how do you justify potentially significant service cuts that will, ultimately, under your watch, hit…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on improving his Department's statutory consultee response times to planning applications.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether any consideration has been given to introducing a use it or loose it 28 day policy, to improve statutory consultee responses on planning applications.
Thank you, Minister, for that detailed answer. The Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) recently reviewed 29 major IT projects across our Departments. Those projects have an estimated cost of £5·2 billion, with your Department's six key projects costing approximately £1·12 billion. What will you do to tackle delays in…
I thank the Minister for her statement. Justice McAlinden recently said that your approach to the A5 appeal was: "entirely unfair and unacceptable and constitutes an unprincipled approach to litigation by two government departments". He felt that it was "gaslighting" by you and your Department. I note that the court…
What bids did the Minister make to the Executive to increase the funding for support, given that the entire support scheme is funded by His Majesty's Government?
I highlight yet another failure of the Department for Infrastructure under successive Sinn Féin Ministers, which is the lack of maintenance of grass verges across Northern Ireland. In 2023, former Minister O'Dowd changed the policy to a single swathe of grass cutting and approximately 1·2 metres of cuts only twice a…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether she will review her Department's policy of cutting a single swathe of grass across the roads network, which was introduced in 2022.
Thank you for that, deputy First Minister. Despite significantly more votes for pro-Union parties than separatists in Scotland and Wales, nationalists are pretending that the Union is somehow under strain. Can the deputy First Minister confirm that, given the joint nature of the office, the First Minister will not be…
The SIB has responsibility for the delivery of major infrastructure projects. However, some, including the A5 and many other important road projects, are stalled due to climate change legislation. That is not helped by the head-in-the-sand approach from some if not all Executive parties around its negative impact.…
Mr Dunne asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether the deputy First Minister agrees that it was depressing that, at the first opportunity following the elections in Great Britain, the First Minister was talking up the abolition of Northern Ireland and further asked how that aligns with the Programme…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail any processes that are available to ensure that all firearm license applications are processed in a timely manner, in the event that staff members are absent for a lengthy period of time.
I thank the Minister for his answer. Will the Minister commit to introducing new safeguarding triggers or flagging systems in A&E departments and across GP settings to ensure that no patient who presents repeatedly with injuries ever again falls through the cracks?
Mr Dunne asked the Minister of Health, taking into account the headlines in this afternoon's local media that 37 people have come forward to say that they were abused by Jonathan Creswell and given that the Katie Simpson review found that repeated presentations to hospital with injuries were not recognised as…