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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 qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to provide an overview of the governance of all non-departmental public bodies under the remit of her Department, including budgets, staffing levels and remuneration of officers.
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the cost in (a) resource; and (b) capital, across all non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) within the departmental responsibilities of the Executive; (ii) whether any issues have been raised within the last six months on these NDPBs in accordance with the provisions of…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether any consideration has been given to having an independent external audit conducted on approaches to dealing with antisemitism within (i) his Department; and (ii) non-departmental public bodies that come within his Department's portfolio.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department has any plans to make the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism mandatory for any body, sporting or cultural, in receipt of public money, either directly or through any non-departmental public body that comes…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether Sport NI has (i) adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism; and (ii) any policies in relation to sanctioning those sporting organisations that receive Sport NI funding and are found to discriminate against Jewish athletes.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether the North West Triathlon Club has received any public money from his Department (i) directly; and (ii) through Sport Northern Ireland, a body which his Department is responsible for.
I thank the Minister for his answer. He will be aware that we have a rather bizarre situation in Northern Ireland, where large amounts of surplus renewable energy get completely wasted. Has the Minister had any opportunity to talk to representatives from business or industry about what we can do about that wasted…
No Confidence in the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs That this Assembly believes the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs has lost the confidence of farmers, rural communities and the wider public; and calls on the Minister to resign.
Committee Membership That Mr Mike Nesbitt replace Mr Jon Burrows as a member of the Public Accounts Committee; and that Mr Andy Allen replace Mr Robbie Butler as a member of the Committee on Procedures.
First, Mr Speaker, I apologise for not being in my place for my question to the Agriculture Minister. I was with the Secretary of State, trying to get us more money. We will see, and, hopefully, we will be more successful at that. I welcome my good friend and political colleague Robbie Butler to the most important…
Deputy First Minister, you will be aware that, through the wonders of the protocol, there are two different versions of how AI is being interpreted in EU regulations and United Kingdom regulations. Will the deputy First Minister point out to us which ones we will use in government? That is important, because they have…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any budget; (ii) staffing levels; and (iii) numeration, of the (a) CEO; (b) Chairperson; and (c) Board, of the eight non-public bodies that comes within the remit of his Department.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) any budget; (ii) staffing levels; and (iii) renumeration, of the (a) CEO; (b) Chairperson; and (c) Board, of the five non-public bodies that comes within the remit of his Department, in each financial year from 2022-23 to 2025-26, and an…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any budget; (ii) staffing levels; and (iii) numeration, of the (a) CEO; (b) Chairperson; and (c) Board, of the eight non-public bodies, six further education colleges and two teacher training colleges that come within the remit of her Department.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) any budget; (ii) staffing levels; and (iii) numeration, of the (a) CEO; (b) Chairperson; and (c) Board, of the six non-public bodies that come within the remit of her Department.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) any budget; (ii) staffing levels; and (iii) numeration, of the (a) CEO; (b) Chairperson; and (c) Board, of the 16 non-public bodies that comes within the remit of his Department.
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline how his Department intends to support households impacted by SSE Airtricity’s 19.2 per cent gas tariff increase, which is due to take effect on 1 October 2026.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to outline any updates they have received in relation to the Review of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, in relation to the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (Maritime) applying from 1 July 2026, whether his Department (i) has commissioned any research on the level of duty raised in fiscal terms by additional duty on maritime traffic and freight; (ii) written…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) any costs for additional staff, budget and IT resources that his Department will bid for to enable it to fulfil Regulation (EU) 2026/1392; and (ii) when he will publish an estimate of those costs.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, following the requirement to implement Regulation (EU) 2026/1392, including the need to establish new authorisation procedures, ten year record keeping and official labelling requirements, to detail (i) whether any assessment has been made of the…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any contingency plans for forest reproductive material shortages, as provided for in Regulation (EU) 2026/1392.