Independent site. Not an official website of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Find out more
MLA Culture Wars

Analysis in progress: 97,637 of 97,960 records assessed (99.7%). Totals and rankings will change until it finishes. Progress details

99.7%

Mr Timothy Gaston: Assembly records

All of Mr Timothy Gaston’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.

3,157 records match, page 12 of 127.

  1. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    That brings me to this thought process. There are laws in place at the minute; does anybody know why the Justice Minister is not pushing the button to ensure that those laws are followed? I would have thought that the Members giggling in the corner would be happy to speak to their party leader and ask why the PSNI is…

    Flagged Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials Criteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Cultural grievance politics, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  2. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I would go a step further than that. If the legislation is enacted in its current form, we will soon see a number of no-go areas appear all over Northern Ireland, in republican areas and nationalist areas, where they will say to DFI, "Do not be coming into my area to remove any emblems". DFI will have no help from the…

    Uncertain: close call Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials Criteria met: Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  3. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    What we have here is, once again, the thought police on patrol. They are out and about, telling MLAs what they should and should not think and saying to members of the public, "This is good legislation. We're going to police how you think". What I mean by that is that what I think about putting up a flag and the…

    Flagged Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials Criteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Cultural grievance politics, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  8. Debate contribution: Executive Budget

    • Opposition Business

    That was interesting to hear. Over the last week, I have watched the Executive debate in the media what they do not want. Can the Finance Minister set out to the House today what he is asking for? We are currently funded to 124% of need by the Treasury. Holtham said that it was a level of need of 123% minus…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  13. Debate contribution: Education: Budget 2026-29/2030

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    The additional £380 million spend for Northern Ireland over the next three years was due to the UK Government's investment in special educational needs in England. Some £231 million of that money was earmarked to be spent in this financial year. Special schools are at capacity —

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  14. Debate contribution: Planning and Waste Water Infrastructure

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Minister, planning red tape is one of the biggest obstacles to growing our local economy. Devolving planning powers to councils in 2015 moved us from having one set of policies governing planning to having 11 localised plans. Any reform of planning must ensure a return to one set of Northern Ireland-wide policies. Has…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  15. Debate contribution: Executive Budget

    • Opposition Business

    The most basic duty of any Government is to agree a Budget. Any serious Government will also need to set a tax rate, but thankfully, in Northern Ireland, we are spared the Northern Ireland Executive's having fiscal powers at their fingertips and the devastation that that would cause to people here. The Executive…

    Uncertain: close call Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  16. Debate contribution: Summit on the Break-up of the United Kingdom

    • Matter of the Day

    It should come as no surprise to anyone that Michelle O'Neill joins her fellow nationalists today to call for the break-up of our United Kingdom. She cannot come before the Executive Office Committee, but she can scurry away to Cardiff with her fellow nationalists. That shows you the contempt that she has for this…

    Flagged Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism Criteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  21. Written question AQW 51924/22-27

    • Department of Education

    To ask the Minister of Education whether the Education Authority sought the views of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, or any other road safety body, regarding potential road safety concerns prior to the withdrawal of concessionary transport on the Dunseverick Primary School yellow bus route.

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  23. Written question AQW 51795/22-27

    • Department of Education

    To ask the Minister of Education, further to his comments on the Nolan Show on 11 September 2026, when he stated there had been consultation processes and he had heard those voices when asked about the provision in the Revised School Uniforms Guidelines, to detail any engagement he had with independent schools before…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

Download all records matching these filters (up to 100,000 rows): CSV · JSON