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Mr Tom Buchanan: Assembly records
All of Mr Tom Buchanan’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister for Communities, further to the additional money allocated to his Department in the October Monitoring round, how many people will remain ineligible for winter fuel support.
I thank my colleagues tabling the motion. A lot of the issues have been covered, so I will be as brief as I can. Unadopted housing developments are a blight right across our constituencies, with unfinished footpaths and roadways posing a serious health and safety risk to homeowners and residents in these areas. Kerbs…
Minister, it is disappointing and perhaps a little alarming that you are pressing on with unrealistic targets and refusing even to look at introducing primary legislation on more realistic targets. However, you have talked about broader representation on the just transition commission to include representatives of…
Protecting Farming Families Following the Autumn Budget 2024 That this Assembly condemns the failure by the UK Government to prioritise farming families and the rural economy as part of the Autumn Budget 2024; notes with deep concern the decisions to introduce new thresholds for Inheritance Tax and Agricultural…
Minister, James Corrigan, the Deputy Chief Inspector of Criminal Justice, advised that the case should be handed over to Deloitte. Why has that advice been ignored, and why, on two occasions since taking up office, have you refused to meet me to discuss the case?
Mr T Buchanan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs why he or his Department have not handed the Roger/Shannon case, which saw a farm business receive in excess of £3 million in the past few years on the basis of an alleged fraudulent claim, and with which the Minister will have…
Thank you, Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank all the participants in today's debate. The creation of a register of animal welfare offenders is an essential step in the protection of our animals from the hands of those who treat them with such cruelty, inflicting untold pain on them and, in some cases, leaving them to…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department received the required period of notice from his former Special Adviser, prior to her leaving to take up new employment.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I do not intend to go through what everyone has said, other than to say that fresh water is an essential and natural resource. As we approach the issue before the House today, there is no doubt that everyone wants to achieve the same goal, and that is to see a vast improvement in our…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of meeting requests he has (i) accepted; and (ii) declined since taking up office.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Failure to Produce a River Basin Management Plan”
Failure to Produce a River Basin Management Plan - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘to address pollution;’ and insert: ‘recognises that without an effective River Basin Management Plan, there are cross-border, environmental, public health and economic consequences, including increased flood risks, threats to…
Creating a Register of Animal Welfare Offenders That this Assembly believes those convicted of animal cruelty should be prohibited from owning or breeding animals in the future; notes with concern the recent figures from the Department of Justice indicating that between 2018 and 2022, only 12 per cent of convictions…
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. The amendment has been well articulated by my colleague Michelle McIlveen. I thank all who took part in the debate: those who brought the motion, and the SDLP for bringing the other amendment. It is something that has obviously united everyone in the Chamber. This is an issue…
Minister, the majority of the road runs through the entire constituency of West Tyrone. Given that our rural economy depends so much on its agriculture industry and on third- and fourth-generation farmers, what conversations have you and your officials had with LPS about proper compensation to allow those farmers to…
Farmers' Basic Payment Scheme (Revised Wording) - Amendment 2 Leave out all after ‘small family farms;’ and insert: ‘welcomes the fact that this annual support was maintained at pre-2020 levels for the duration of the last Parliament; acknowledges, however, the need to address the significant uncertainty regarding the…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the cost of (i) Chief Executive Officers; and (ii) other directors in each of the last three years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of managers employed by each Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) their individual roles and duties.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of Directors employed by each Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) their individual roles and duties.
I welcome the statement today as well. It is reassuring that none of the acute services is going to be closed during or after the process. Will the Minister assure us that each acute and local hospital will be utilised to its full potential? Far too often, when we see a change coming, we can see the gaps that will be…