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 Communities to provide a breakdown of organisations in receipt of payments from (i) his Department; and (ii) its arm's-length bodies for providing diversity, equality and inclusion training since the restoration of the Executive in February 2024.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, further to the commitment on page 22 of the Programme for Government 2024-2027 to invest £1.3 billion with the aim of stimulating regeneration and tourism across Northern Ireland, to provide a list of the local partners referred to.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, further to the commitment on page 22 of the Programme for Government 2024-2027 to invest £1.3 billion with the aim of stimulating regeneration and tourism across Northern Ireland, to detail the local councils that will be involved.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to quantify the word few, as used in the Programme for Government 2024-2027 when stating that over the next few years £1.3 billion will be invested with the aim of stimulating regeneration and tourism across Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in relation to the recently announced revitalisation scheme for the Sandy Row area, to detail the role of Belfast City Council in determining business eligibility for the scheme.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in relation to the recently announced revitalisation scheme for the Sandy Row area, to detail (i) the area covered by the scheme; (ii) the application deadline; (iii) the eligibility requirements; and (iv) when he anticipates successful applicants will receive funding.
I commend the Ulster Unionist Party for bringing this important motion to the House. It is particularly pertinent that these matters should be raised on 11 March, which is a day on which people across Europe pause to remember the innocent victims of terrorism. The record of the Irish Republic when it comes to legacy…
Minister, your statement tells us that animals from foot-and-mouth disease-affected areas in Hungary and Germany are prevented from entering NI. However, when it comes to bluetongue, you say: "movement of all live ruminants and camelids from Great Britain to Northern Ireland is still suspended." Will the Minister…
More wastage is what the Minister orders. Some of that money was spent on membership fees for the discredited Stonewall's Allies programme, which is used to push gender ideology. Why is taxpayers' money being wasted on that nonsense, years after the Civil Service and even the BBC recognised the need to withdraw from…
Following on from the Minister's comments that LPS will work with ratepayers, I have a case at the minute where the time frame given to the constituent to pay off their rates bill simply is not long enough for them to afford to pay it off. Will the Minister give a commitment that, where there are circumstances in…
I do not expect that anyone from the southern side of the border will have raised this issue, but did either Mr Nesbitt or the Infrastructure Minister raise the fact that the Grand Central station project has resulted in a 40% reduction in the takings of businesses in Sandy Row? Is there any prospect of financial…
I join other Members in welcoming the statement. It is full of positive language and will require significant investment in the EA and in schools. Minister, is the ministerial advisory panel's work time-limited? When will schools start to see access to the additional support and personal development for principals and…
Last week, during the debate on the Programme for Government, I contrasted the two bodies mentioned on page 85 of that document, namely InterTradeIreland and Intertrade UK. I highlighted the fact that InterTradeIreland has a budget of over £6·4 million awarded to it from the Stormont Budget. I could have added that…
Mr Gaston asked the Minister of Finance what he is doing to cut back on wastage such as over £250,000 spent by his Department on diversity, equality and inclusion training since 2019, as revealed in this morning's 'Belfast Telegraph'.
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To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for a breakdown, by Department, of the £1.3 billion to be invested with the aim of stimulating regeneration and tourism across Northern Ireland.
To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister for their assessment of whether there is a correlation between the announcement of funding of up to £135 million a year to reduce waiting lists by treating an additional 70,000 patients, and a further £80 million a year to increase elective care capacity, as outlined…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 23073/22-27, whether he will seek assurances from all Health and Social Care Trusts that this has not happened.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been dealt with by his Department in each of the last three years.
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. This morning, I had the privilege of hosting the European Day for Victims of Crime 2025 event in the Senate Chamber. We heard testimony from Pamela Wilson, whose father was an RUC officer murdered by the IRA on his son's eighth birthday. He also left behind a 10-year-old…
I declare an interest as a governor of Buick Memorial Primary School. Many primary schools, such as that of which I am a governor, struggle to carry out basic, routine maintenance. The school has to fundraise for such simple things as painting the walls. At what point will budgets be rebalanced to ensure that schools…
To ask the Minister of Justice whether the statement in the Programme for Government 2024-2027 that the Executive is actively seeking to achieve a sufficient number of police officers in line with New Decade, New Approach commitments means that the PSNI will have 7,500 officers by the end of the 2022-2027 mandate.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of whether the £135 million a year, outlined in the Programme for Government 2024-2027, will be sufficient to treat an additional 70,000 patients.