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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.

915 records match, page 31 of 37.

  2. Debate contribution: Police Ombudsman's Office: Operational Capacity

    • Question for Urgent Oral Answer

    For clarification, the ombudsman is on sick leave and is currently under investigation. The chief executive is currently absent, and a recruitment process has been started. The person responsible for the chief executive's post has been delegated to it. Who gave the authority for someone to be delegated to such a…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  3. Debate contribution: Electric and Prong Collars: Ban

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    First, I apologise for not being in my seat when my question to the Minister of Justice was called. Secondly, as a person who looks after a dog — I am not a dog owner; I look after a dog, but it is very much my wife's dog — how do we define "unnecessary suffering" and how can this legislation be enforced? Without the…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  5. Debate contribution: Energy Market

    • Private Members' Business

    The Ulster Unionist Party will support the motion and the amendment. The climate emergency is an accelerating problem, and it is not just to do with the environment, as we have seen recently with high temperatures and high seawater temperatures and the impact that both are having on our climate as we speak. It is also…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  6. Debate contribution: Executive Legislation Programme 2024

    • Executive Committee Business

    Well, we are all here to be supportive. The Member will be aware, of course, that because the Health budget has been cut by 2·3%, it will be increasingly difficult for any Health Minister to be able to deliver what is required. Indeed, many Members throughout the House will agree that cutting the Health budget by 2·3%…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  9. Debate contribution: Executive Legislation Programme 2024

    • Executive Committee Business

    Thank you very much, indeed. I just wanted to get some clarity as we go forward with the debate. Some people may think that the Ulster Unionist Party is also heading in that direction, but I can assure you that we endorse the legislative programme. Deputy First Minister, in your summing up, will you clarify the issue…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  11. Member's statement: Regulation (EU) 2024/1157: Committee Report

    • Members' Statements

    Last Thursday, the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee considered, and its Alliance Party and Sinn Féin members approved, a report on regulation (EU) 2024/1157 and associated amending regulations. The regulations refer to waste management in Northern Ireland. In the report are two comments — one from our…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  12. Debate contribution: D-Day Events: Non-attendance of the First Minister

    • Question for Urgent Oral Answer

    First Minister, you will be aware of the fact that the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy are, at present, busy defending the sea lanes all the way around our island. In particular, the Royal Air Force has been doing search-and-rescue work and has been hunting for submarines. I thank the Member who raised the…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  16. Debate contribution: Financial Assistance for Political Parties Scheme 2024

    • Assembly Business

    Ach, come on. Sorry. Some details have kindly been provided by our friend Mr Clarke. As I said before, can somebody please explain to me the methodology? If this was based on a funding level set for 2016, and it has been revised over a period of time to 2024 by looking at the overall inflation rates and the rest of…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  18. Debate contribution: Financial Assistance for Political Parties Scheme 2024

    • Assembly Business

    I am trying to do my maths here to see how this works out. As I read it, there has been an increase of close on £250,000 to go to the various parties. As I look at it, Sinn Féin's total has probably gone up by £100,000 to about £270,000; the DUP's total has gone up by £85,000 to £250,000; Alliance's total has gone up…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  19. Debate contribution: Fiscal Framework: Needs-based Factor

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Minister, the Fiscal Council gave recent evidence to the Finance Committee indicating that our current level of funding may, indeed, be above the 124% level. Will the Minister give us an assessment of where, she thinks, our level is at the moment and the likely difference between the two?

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  20. Debate contribution: Invest NI: Aerospace, Defence and Space

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Minister for his answer. Will the Minister, therefore, when he looks at his diary, commit to coming to the Farnborough International Airshow, where Northern Ireland will highlight its wares at a series of events? It would be excellent if the Minister were able to find himself there.

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  21. Topical question AQT 336/22-27

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Dr Aiken asked the Minister for the Economy, after welcoming him back to his rightful place and declaring an interest as the incoming chair of the all-party group on aerospace, defence and space, which Members will agree is a good title, to state, given the challenges that he is aware that the growing aerospace sector…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  22. Debate contribution: Budget 2024-25

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Minister very much for giving way. The Minister will be aware that, across the rest of the United Kingdom, health is above the line — considerably so — because of the pressures on the health system across the place. Can you explain why Northern Ireland is somehow different from England, Scotland and Wales…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  23. Debate contribution: Budget 2024-25

    • Executive Committee Business

    The Member will be aware that there is a June monitoring round that may have a considerable amount of money in it: anywhere between £200 million and £300 million. Does he think that it is good governance to try to pass a Budget when that amount of money will become available in around 30 days' time? How is that…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  25. Debate contribution: Budget 2024-25

    • Executive Committee Business

    Thank you very much for giving way. The Member will be aware that we have already heard from the First Minister today that the likelihood of less engagement with central government during the period of purdah for the Westminster election means that that is not likely to happen. If that is the case, how are we to get…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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