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 of Health for an update on resolving industrial action with the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service to ensure category 2 ambulance calls are responded to in the last hour of a shift.
To ask the Assembly Commission to detail the number of occasions that people have reported being charged a transaction fee for being abroad after they used the Blue Flax restaurant in Parliament Buildings.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the measures he has taken to ensure marriage is promoted inside the Northern Ireland curriculum since coming into office.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any assessment that has been made of the collapse of the Cantor Fitzgerald 300-job investment; and (ii) whether she has conducted any review into the handling of her meeting with the company and its aftermath.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to place (i) all departmental and Invest NI notes, briefings and correspondence relating to the New York meeting with Cantor Fitzgerald; and (ii) all documents on the subsequent decision by the company to pull out of the Belfast investment, in the Assembly Library.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail why a project described by Invest NI as a done deal, involving 300 jobs in Belfast and a signed letter of offer for public funding, collapsed shortly after her critical meeting with Cantor Fitzgerald in New York.
To ask the Assembly Commission to detail the measures that (i) have been taken; and (ii) are planned, to clean the steps at the front of Parliament Buildings.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any estimate his Department has made of the number of classroom assistant posts that may be affected, reduced or removed as a direct consequence of the proposed changes to special educational needs provision, including the move away from one-to-one support.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department has carried out any impact assessment of the proposed changes to special educational needs provision on (i) classroom assistant redundancies; (ii) reductions in contracted hours; and (iii) the redeployment of classroom assistants.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any assessment his Department has made of the implications of the proposed changes to special educational needs provision for (a) classroom assistant workload; and (b) safeguarding responsibilities within the classroom; and (ii) whether any changes will be made to the…
I welcome the veto that the DUP is exercising at the Executive to oppose the creation of yet another unwanted, costly, green-welly-brigade quango in Northern Ireland. The proposal is the latest example of the Minister prioritising his environmental ideology over the agriculture sector — the very sector that he is…
Would the Member like to clarify for the House which party's Minister is in charge of the 20 million tons of untreated sewage that goes into our waterways each year? Sinn Féin seems to want to distance itself and have that independent body. What is your party's Minister doing about that?
In the words of the equality commissioner, Geraldine McGahey OBE, "We recommend that the Commission seeks its own legal advice", when referring to Stormont's trans-inclusive toilet policy that allows men into women's bathrooms on its outdated guidance. Will the woke members of the Commission commit to footing the bill…
FlaggedGender, sexuality, abortion and related social issuesCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
As I outlined, approximately 90% of goods entering Northern Ireland come here via ferry routes. The Scottish exemption is 100%. You are bumming up and talking about how good it is to have an Assembly and Ministers in place.