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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 flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any assessment that has been undertaken of flood risk associated with the preferred route for the A5 scheme through the Foyle valley, including the extent of embankments proposed and any mitigation measures.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether the Department has compared the environmental impacts of the preferred route with a route linking directly to the A6 at Drumahoe, including impacts on flood plains, wildlife habitats and landscape character.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether the First Minister’s attendance at a commemoration for IRA hunger striker Thomas McElwee is in line with the Ministerial Code’s Pledge of Office commitments to serve all the people of Northern Ireland equally and to challenge all paramilitary activity and…
FlaggedDecided on a second assessment.Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of road traffic collisions, including those resulting in death or serious injury, on each section of the existing A5 between Newbuildings and Londonderry during the last ten years; and whether this section was identified as one of the highest collision-risk…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether traffic modelling for the A5 scheme has been updated to reflect recent housing development in the Newbuildings, Bready, Crescent Link and Foyle Bridge areas.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail any assessment her Department has made of the impact of a completed A5 scheme on congestion between Newbuildings and Londonderry, including forecast traffic volumes and journey times on the existing A5 following completion of the scheme.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether her Department has carried out a modelling option whereby the A5 Western Transport Corridor bypassed Strabane and Londonderry and connected directly with the A6 at Drumahoe.
To ask the Assembly Commission to detail (i) the extent of any works carried out within the deputy First Minister’s offices in Parliament Buildings during the 2022-2027 Assembly mandate; (ii) the reason for each item of work undertaken; and (iii) a breakdown of the costs incurred, including expenditure on materials,…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any assessment made of the potential for greater use of dental hygienists and dental therapists to improve access to preventive treatment and reduce pressures on dentists.
To ask the Minister of Education whether a Rural Needs Impact Assessment was completed prior to the withdrawal of the yellow school bus service to Dunseverick Primary School, including (i) details of the assessment and its findings; and (ii) whether the assessment has been reviewed or updated following representations…
To ask the Minister of Education to provide the timeline of all correspondence issued by the Education Authority to Dunseverick Primary School regarding the withdrawal of the yellow school bus service, including the dates on which the school was first notified and any subsequent communications.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail any discussions her Department has had with the Department of Health and Northern Ireland’s universities regarding the establishment and funding of a dental hygiene and therapy course in Northern Ireland.
As far back as 2013, an independent report into boxing highlighted the inability of people from Northern Ireland to box for the United Kingdom in the Olympics. Will the Minister give the House an assurance and commitment today that he will address that issue before his time in office comes to an end?
On Sunday week ago, Michelle O'Neill, the First Minister of "no alternative", spoke at the terror fest that is the national hunger strike commemoration, which glorifies the 10 terrorists who chose to kill themselves by starvation. In choosing death, those terrorists made a choice that they denied to innocent people.…
FlaggedLegacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarismCriteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
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.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he will commission a formal business case for establishing a dental hygiene and therapy course in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Health to provide his Department’s estimate of the annual cost of commissioning a dental hygiene and therapy course in Northern Ireland, including the cost of an initial cohort of (i) 10 students; (ii) 15 students; and (iii) 20 students.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any action that followed the identification of dental-care professional education, training and workplace retention as an area requiring further planning in his Department’s Workforce Review for Dental Services in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any consideration he has given to creating a locally accessible progression route through which qualified dental nurses may train as dental hygienists or dental therapists.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of Northern Ireland residents that have undertaken Department-funded or commissioned dental hygiene or dental therapy training outside Northern Ireland in each of the last five academic years; and how many subsequently entered employment in Northern Ireland.
I welcome the Minister's statement to ensure that working parents will no longer be discriminated against when selecting a nursery setting for their child. Will the Minister confirm that, when we reach academic year 2028-29, and if we are under a new Education Minister in the next mandate, the decision that he has…
The Minister's party leader gave a guarantee that he would never support the removal of emergency general surgery at Causeway Hospital. Will the Minister commit, here and now, to the retention of all existing services at Causeway post election, or is the new committee just a time-buying tactic? We all know that the…
Minister, you brushed off the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) scandal by claiming that it was an historical issue that related to malpractice in 2023 and 2024. The court order regarding Fivemiletown related to offences between 2022 and 2024, yet the farmer was not given enough time to sell off his 51…
Artificial intelligence is a sector that I have a great deal of interest in. Can the deputy First Minister tell us why, two months on from missing the most recent scheduled appearance at Committee, the Executive Office Committee Clerk has been unable to secure an alternative date to allow the Committee to scrutinise…