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.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail all expenditure on communications and media production by his Department since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024, including (i) camera equipment; (ii) photography services; (iii) video production and filming services; and (iv)…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail all expenditure on communications and media production by her Department since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024, including (i) camera equipment; (ii) photography services; (iii) video production and filming services; and (iv) digital content creation…
No one in the House will need persuaded of the importance of special educational needs coordinators. SENCOs sit at the centre of our education system's ability to deliver for some of the most vulnerable children in Northern Ireland. In most of our schools, SENCOs are not operating in a dedicated role; they are…
There is much in the motion on which Members across the House will agree. The figures are stark. Only around half of adults in Northern Ireland are now registered with an NHS dentist. Registrations have fallen sharply in the past year. Treatment levels remain below what they were prior to the pandemic. However, I…
Time and time again in the Chamber, we hear that the net zero ideology reigns supreme over common sense. Minister, do you have any central role in ensuring that common sense is applied to spending in Departments, or is it the case that the dangers and the hamstringing that will limit industry and our economy will not…
The statement speaks in grand terms of what the North/South Ministerial Council is doing to help to address educational underachievement. Minister, how many programmes are running to tackle educational underachievement amongst working-class Protestant boys? How many programmes to tackle that problem operate on a…
The Minister rightly praises progress on teachers' pay. Minister, when will you take the same action for classroom assistants, who face months without pay each year, as they, too, play an integral part in pupil learning? Many classroom assistants received just two weeks' pay in April because of the Easter break and…
I welcome the announcement of the £50 million defence growth deal from the UK Government. It will benefit defence tech start-ups and small businesses in Northern Ireland. At a time when our economy needs confidence, jobs and long-term stability, any credible inward investment that strengthens our industrial base and…
FlaggedLegacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarismCriteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
Schedule 3 of the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 To ask the Minister of Justice, given Senior Crown Counsel has confirmed in the High Court that the Minister will update Schedule 3 to the Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2011, to outline any impact on the validity and enforcement of offences of not having updated…
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail all expenditure on communications and media production by their Department since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024, including (i) camera equipment; (ii) photography services; (iii) video production and filming services; and (iv) digital…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail all expenditure on communications and media production by his Department since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024, including (i) camera equipment; (ii) photography services; (iii) video production and filming services; and (iv) digital content creation and social…
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail all expenditure on communications and media production by his Department since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024, including (i) camera equipment; (ii) photography services; (iii) video production and filming services; and (iv) digital content creation and social…
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail all expenditure on communications and media production by her Department since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024, including (i) camera equipment; (ii) photography services; (iii) video production and filming services; and (iv) digital content creation and…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail all expenditure on communications and media production by his Department since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024, including (i) camera equipment; (ii) photography services; (iii) video production and filming services; and (iv) digital content creation and…
The latest figures published by DAERA expose the fact that the strategy being deployed by the Minister to tackle bovine TB is failing, and failing miserably at that. Whose future is being put at risk due to that chronic failure? Is it those who champion the protection of the disease-ridden badger? Is it the…
That would have been a more sensible way forward. If you have a problem with fracking, you should look at it solely. However, what we have today is a blanket ban, which will mean that, in future, if evidence is produced that we have a natural resource that we can utilise and would help to secure our energy future,…
Two weeks ago, the Assembly voted against costing the net zero lunacy in Stormont Departments. Last week the House supported the idea of creating new anaerobic digesters in Northern Ireland, which will deliver the Minister's vision for stock cuts by stealth if we continue down that route. Now, this week, we have a…
It will be lost on no one that the bombing of Dunmurry PSNI station took place just days after a debate in Belfast City Hall about the statue of a convicted bomber. One cannot with any credibility defend furniture shop bomber Bobby Sands and then condemn the PSNI station bombers just days later. Both actions were…
FlaggedLegacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarismCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail (i) the training and oversight arrangements in place within the Office of the Irish Language Commissioner to ensure that Freedom of Information responses are handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, including the evidential threshold…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the funding allocated to suicide prevention programmes; and (ii) the funding allocated to crisis intervention and emergency response services, since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024.
To ask the Minister of Finance to confirm whether full security vetting took place in the process to appoint Special Advisers to the (i) Executive Office; (ii) Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs; (iii) Department for Communities; (iv) Department for the Economy; (v) Department of Education; (vi)…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 31577/22-27, to detail (i) any assessment his Department has made of the scope of the forestry and governance reports commissioned by the Loughs Agency into the TREES/Wet Woods project; and (ii) an explanation of any difference between…