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Dr Steve Aiken OBE: Assembly records
All of Dr Steve Aiken OBE’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 for an update on the status of the Reservoirs Act (Northern Ireland) 2015, including whether all provisions have been fully implemented.
To ask the Minister for Communities, as we approach 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, whether he has asked representatives from the US Armed Forces to visit Northern Ireland, to highlight our combined roles in the defence of the Atlantic over the last eight decades.
To ask the Minister of Finance, in view of the recent NI Audit Office report Leading and Resourcing the Northern Ireland Civil Service, (i) to detail any criteria by which the Head of the Civil Service could have been assessed as satisfactory under NICS HR guidance, resulting in a renumeration package increase of…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any request received from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Development or the Department for Infrastructure, for updates of flooding maps provided by Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI); and (ii) the last time the OSNI flooding modelling…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the (i) average cost to repair a pothole in Northern Ireland; (ii) total cost of damage claims to her Department from motorists hitting potholes; and (iii) amount of potholes her Department can repair with any of the £16.8 million Capital DEL underspend she has been…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, in light of the increased amount of flooding expected on already saturated land, for an update of the Living With Water Programme.
The Ballycorr Road in Ballyclare suffers from potholes that have now become pot-trenches and are about to become pot-canyons. When those are mapped out on the system, the Ballycorr Road now just looks red. What do I say to my constituents, who continuously complain about the lack of interest that DFI is showing in the…
The transformation board has moved from being an interim transformation board to being a new quango with the NIO and NICS working together. What is your assessment of how well it is working, particularly bearing in mind that you used to be the responsible officer for it? Who knows who its responsible officer is now?
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any plans her Department has for repairing the Ballycorr Road, Ballyclare; and (ii) whether she will undertake a visit to the road with residents and elected representatives to listen to concerns of its condition.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any discussions her Department has had with (i) the EU; (ii) His Majesty’s Government; and (iii) the Utility Regulator of Northern Ireland, regarding the implications for Northern Ireland's energy market from the EU regulations (a) ST 10871 2021 INIT; and (b) ST 10875 2021…
To ask the Minister for the Economy, in light of the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council, amending Directives 2009/43/EC and 2009/81/EC, as regards the simplification of intra-EU transfers of defence related products and the simplification of security and defence procurement, to…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether she will place in the Assembly library, all correspondence, including (i) emails; (ii) WhatsApp messages; (iii) minutes of conversations and meetings; and (iv) call logs, between the BBC and her Department, pertaining to her appearance on the Good Morning Ulster Show, on…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, in light of the flooding along the Six Mile River, South Antrim, and its tributaries, to detail (i) when the latest flood maps were produced of the river and its tributaries; and (ii) whether any assessment and mapping of the extent of the flooding on the 27 January 2026, has…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any capital funding her Department plans to allocate for the construction of the A5 Road in (i) 2026-27; (ii) 2027-28; and (iii) 2028-29.
Thank you very much for giving way. A member of my staff who is now a senior politician in local government on Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council came under absolutely horrendous attack. One of my biggest concerns is that it puts women off getting involved in politics full stop. Would the Member like to reflect…
I declare an interest: as a member of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, I attended the AI conference that was hosted by the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Kuala Lumpur last year. That was about the use of AI and how it was undermining democracy, but the real issue was how it was undermining people's lives and…
Minister, the Finance Committee was at LPS a couple of weeks ago. One discussion that we had was about how the revaluation process would be flatted and how there would be ups and downs. We have heard much from the hospitality industry about how its valuations have gone up. Minister, from your briefing by LPS, will you…