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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 of Finance when they will publish details of all performance-related pay for senior grade members of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, including (i) Grades 3-5; (ii) Permanent Secretaries; and (iii) Head of Civil Service.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether they will publish criteria for performance pay for senior grade members of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, including (i) Grades 3-5; (ii) Permanent Secretaries; and (iii) Head of Civil Service.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether she has engaged with the Ministry of Defence to promote Northern Ireland's shipbuilding and defence as sub-contractors for the recent £10 billion Type 26 frigates order from Norway.
Committee Membership (Revised Wording) That Mr Jon Burrows be appointed as a member of the Committee for Education; and that Mr Robbie Butler replace Mr Andy Allen as a member of the Business Committee.
To ask the Minister of Finance whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer has indicated if further revenue raising powers will be made available to the Executive.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs why the construction of agriculture border inspection posts in Larne, Warrenpoint and Belfast are continuing at a cost to the public purse, when the Welsh Government has paused any further expenditure on identical facilities in Wales.
To ask the Minister for the Economy whether she is aware of any engagement by the regulator OFCOM to investigate the failures by some mobile telecom providers in upgrading networks from 3G and 4G to 5G.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he has had any engagement with Foras na Gaeilge in relation to its funding of the publication Comhar, whose front cover of its July 2025 has been condemned by the Jewish community as being antisemitic.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of its funding of the publication Comhar, whose front cover of its July 2025 has been condemned by the Jewish community as being antisemitic, to detail any plans to refer Foras na Gaeilge to be investigated by the Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman to ensure that…
Previously, Departments seemed to use the black box as a default mechanism. At one stage, over £1·3 billion sat in the black box, which went against the Department's own accounting rules. When you are addressing the Bill, will it be possible to make some statutory requirement that we not exceed the good governance…
I thank the Member for giving way. I am glad that he brought up the issue of the black box. Billions of pounds were going through the black box rather than through the proper accounting measures, which state that it has to be no more than approximately £1 million, I think, and that, even then, it can be for only a…
I thank the Minister for giving way. We have noted that the Fiscal Council provides independent evidence, particularly if we are having conversations with the Treasury or other organisations. We need to look, however, at establishing a funding line whereby funding goes directly to the Fiscal Council rather than come…
I apologise to Madam Principal Deputy Speaker for not being in my place earlier. I was Does the Member agree that one of the most important things about having the Fiscal Council is the ability to instil some form of fiscal discipline in the process going forward? Maybe the Minister, in his remarks about additional…
I appreciate the Minister's giving way again. Minister, something new is coming into the system, which is known as the Union Customs Code. It is a substantial change that will come about through the Windsor framework. The Union Customs Code will make specific reference to smart data and how it is used. Minister, I…
I thank the Minister for giving way. One of the issues that we have identified is a problem with some of the LCMs and the information that is coming through. A risk register system is supposed to be set up with the Executive that the Windsor Framework Committee is supposed to look at for specific pieces of legislation…
Members might think that the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 LCM is in some way a minor piece of legislation that is going through. They might consider it to be like most LCMs that we look at in that it will have no real impact or import on us. Anybody who looks quite closely at the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 will…