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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 qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Members, whatever way you want to spin it, the draft Programme for Government is a distinctly underwhelming document. If anyone went to the public with it as their manifesto, they would be soundly rejected by the electorate. Even some of the things in it that are trumpeted as achievements do not stand up to the most…
QualifyingDecided on a second assessment.Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism
First Minister, your party brought us the Liam Adams scandal, the Máiría Cahill scandal and the Seamus Marley scandal. Sinn Féin has now brought us the Michael McMonagle scandal. You claim that you did not see him standing in front of you at an event in this Building, despite your employing him personally in 2020.…
Thank you, Mr Speaker. During last Wednesday's meeting of the Executive Committee, the First Minister launched a grotesquely offensive attack on my character. The attack, shamefully but not surprisingly, went unchallenged by the Chair, Ms Bradshaw, who afforded me just one minute and nine seconds to speak during an…
No Confidence That this Assembly notes the inconsistences in the accounts of the First Minister in relation to what she and her party knew and did in relation to the provision of references for Michael McMonagle; condemns the First Minister and the Minister for the Economy for their questioning of the actions of the…
To ask the Assembly Commission whether it will review its policy of not requiring MLAs to notify the Assembly Commission about employment matters unless those matters are relevant to payroll services, in light of issues around Michael McMonagle.
To ask the Minister for Communities (i) for his assessment of his Department continuing to offer a distinct service for transgender individuals in relation to Personal Independence Payments; and (ii) whether he has any plans to discontinue this service.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether specific staff are assigned to deal with transgender individuals in relation to Personal Independence Payments.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of people who have contacted the Personal Independence Payment Centre by way of the email address provided for transgender customers.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Tackling Paramilitarism”
Tackling Paramilitarism - Amendment 3 At the end insert: ‘; and further calls on the First Minister and deputy First Minister to address the issues highlighted in the Research Report 2024, When you know what they are capable of: Paramilitary-related Gendered Coercive Control, as part of their strategy on violence…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail any additional funding made available to the Victims and Survivors Service to cover the work arising from the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether the public money paid to victims of Historic Institutional Abuse has come from the block grant.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the rationale for his Department offering a distinct service for transgender individuals in relation to Personal Independence Payments.
To ask the Minister for Communities when his Department began offering a distinct service for transgender individuals in relation to Personal Independence Payments.
First Minister's Recent Statements To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to explain how the First Minister’s comments at the Committee for the Executive Office on Wednesday 2nd October that she didn’t know the whereabouts of Michael McMonagle is consistent with a photograph published by the Irish News.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the engagement they have had with (i) institutions of the Roman Catholic Church; and (ii) charitable organisations, in relation to seeking contributions towards payments made by the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether they are aware of correspondence from the Sisters of Nazareth to the Committee for the Executive Office that states they have not received a formal request from your Department for a contribution towards the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Scheme.
To ask the Assembly Commission whether a pass to Parliament Buildings has ever been granted to Michael McMonagle (i) in his role within Sinn Féin; and (ii) while working in any another capacity.
To ask the Assembly Commission whether it will review its child protection policy in light of Michael McMonagle’s access to Parliament Buildings after his arrest in 2021 for sexual offences against children.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in light of their statutory obligation to represent the interests of victims, for their assessment of the victims’ accounts of the role of the IRA in the abuse of women and girls, as highlighted in the Research Report 2024, When you know what they are capable of:…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in light of their strategy on violence against women and girls, to detail the action their Department is taking following the Research Report 2024, When you know what they are capable of: Paramilitary-related Gendered Coercive Control.