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Mr Stewart Dickson: Assembly records
All of Mr Stewart Dickson’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 of Health to detail (i) any urgent actions he is taking to address delays in GP-delivered childhood vaccinations; and (ii) the number of children whose routine vaccinations are overdue.
Thank you, Minister, for your comprehensive response; it is greatly valued. Do you agree that, in the absence of a statutory duty on public authorities to consider social value in their spending decisions, the current policy-based approach risks inconsistency and could be changed at ministerial direction? Will you…
Minister, thank you for your answer. Will you tell the House what practical steps you intend to take to ensure that specialist placements for pupils and students are available in the areas in which they require them in order to keep children and young people in their local communities and as close to home as possible?
Minister, do you not agree that, instead of advancing bureaucracy, we should strip it away and that we do not need another body? On the question of equality, should you not, in fact, create a single managing authority for education that includes all the current sectoral bodies?
Mr Dickson asked the Minister of Education, after stating that, as he will be aware, an agreement on savings of nearly £1 million has been reached between the Education Authority and taxi operators, whether he agrees that the unplanned and reactive approach to the placement of pupils and students drives up transport…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to outline any assessment that has been made of the recent storm damage to the sea walls along the Carrickfergus coastline at Rhanbuoy Park.
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank my colleague Paula Bradshaw for moving the motion, and I extend a warm word of thanks to every Member who contributed to today's debate. These are serious and important matters that not only cover a great deal of our history and our past but, sadly, remain in our…
You said that a lot of the work is now dependent on policy advice being received. Has that policy advice been received? If not, when will it be provided to you?
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether the responsibility for the maintenance of the footpath on the Islandmagee Road, Whitehead, opposite Whitehead Primary School, rests with her Department or Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.
Minister, will the review of Northern Ireland's charities legislation resolve the issues with section 167 of the Charities Act, which causes confusion and difficulty in the registration of charities in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom?
Thank you very much, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank everyone who contributed to the debate. It has, I think, been very useful. There is much in the motion with which my party agrees. Therefore, I encourage the party that tabled the motion to support our amendment. We all agree that delivery has been too slow.…
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department, or any of its agencies, will be represented either in person or online at the European Cancer Screening and Early Detection Policy Summit for Newly Implementable Programmes for Prostate, Lung, and Gastric Cancer Screening, in Brussels on 17 and 18 February 2026.
I once again mark Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Week. I do so as chair of the all-party group on cancer and, personally, as a survivor of one of one of those less survivable cancers: oesophageal cancer. As a volunteer, I will make five new oesophageal cancer patient calls this week. This is an important…
Less Survivable Cancer Awareness That this Assembly recognises Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Week, beginning on 12 January 2026, as an important opportunity to raise awareness of the six less survivable common cancers, namely cancers of the lung, liver, brain, oesophagus, pancreas and stomach; notes with deep…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Executive Progress”
Executive Progress - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘siloed departmental working,’ and insert: ‘the chronic underfunding of some departments, reckless budget management by others, and the structure and operation of the Executive and Assembly; believes that two years on from the restoration of devolved government, the…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail how dialysis patients avail of reimbursement costs of dialysis on a cruise with an approved supplier, similar to patients who receive reimbursement in Scotland, England and Wales.
The Alliance Party supports the motion, because it is important that we are wholly positive about the potential to establish an EU or, more correctly, a European External Action Service (EEAS) office in Belfast. As many will know, it is not a new concept. When the UK was a member of the EU, there were offices not just…
Minister, thank you for your statement. Can you set the record straight by telling the House your response to those who claim that it is in excess of 20 years since the rates were set?
On behalf of the Alliance Party, I pay tribute to Mary Bradley and Joe Byrne. Mary Bradley was, as Members have already been made aware, an MLA for Foyle. That was before my time in this place: in fact, she was leaving the Assembly as I arrived in 2011. She was a councillor for the Shantallow area on the then Derry…
Clerical Child Abuse That this Assembly notes that independent research findings and recommendations on clerical child abuse, commissioned by the Executive Office, were submitted to the First Minister and deputy First Minister in July 2025; expresses concern at the lack of engagement with victims and survivors since…