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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.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 14624/22-27, whether he will provide a fully detailed cost model that has been produced for the Rethinking Our Resources: Measures for Climate Action and a Circular Economy in NI Consultation, including (i) the full capital expenditure…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 14624/22-27, for his assessment of whether the Regulatory Impact Assessment, to which he referred, does not include a detailed cost model.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 14622/22-27, for his assessment of when solely looking at the recycling rate derived from the kerbside collection of dry recyclables, that the NI Local Authority Collection Municipal Waste Statistics 2022/2023 highlight that local…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 14622/22-27, whether he accepts that recycling rates are higher among commingled household waste management systems than that of kerbside sort box systems.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 13498/22-27, to detail (i) the cost model that has been produced for the Rethinking Our Resources: Measures for Climate Action and a Circular Economy in NI consultation; (i) the full capital expenditure assumptions over the next seven…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 13498/22-27, whether the carbon impact of the proposed waste management system in the Rethinking Our Resources: Measures for Climate Action and a Circular Economy in NI consultation is more environmentally detrimental than the carbon…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 13498/22-27, in relation to data from recycling centres and bottle banks, for his assessment of whether commingled waste management systems have the highest kerbside recycling rates in Northern Ireland.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether local councils can continue to use the fully co-mingled recycling system if his Department introduces the new waste management and recycling laws proposed by the Rethinking Our Resources: Measures for Climate Action and a Circular Economy in NI…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether his Department can provide the relevant funding for the proposed costs from the Rethinking Our Resources: Measures for Climate Action and a Circular Economy in NI consultation.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the cost of the implementation of proposals listed in the Rethinking Our Resources: Measures for Climate Action and a Circular Economy in NI consultation.
What assessment has the Minister made of the detrimental impact that such a move may have on small farm holdings that, despite being small, produce quality meat to the food chain, which, in turn, provides an income for that small farm holding?
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank all who participated in the important debate today, and I thank the Minister for being here to respond. Agriculture, as we all know, is the backbone of our rural communities and is vital for Northern Ireland's economy, the environment and its people. Northern Ireland's farm…
Will the Minister explain the level of capital spend on integrated schools over the past five years and how it compares with the percentage of children who attend integrated schools?
I thank the Minister for his response. He will know the importance of the childcare sector in our communities. Will the business support scheme be a one-off or will it be on a recurrent basis?
On the subject of learning lessons, has the First Minister's Department any contingency plans in place or is it considering putting any in place to deal with a similar pandemic, should one arise?
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank the Member for bringing the motion to the House. The recent inquiry by the Windsor Framework Sub-Committee not only shone a light on the crisis facing the supply of veterinary medicines to Northern Ireland but demonstrated the significant distance that still has to be travelled if…
Thank you, Minister, for your response. Avalon House in Omagh was used for respite care for those young people. During COVID, that was closed and made into a full-time facility for a few patients, leaving young people in Omagh who have a disability or a learning difficulty and their families with no place to go for…
Mental health was once branded the Cinderella of the health service. In the Western Health and Social Care Trust area, mental health is still the Cinderella of the health service. A proposal for a new acute mental health facility in Omagh was first put forward in 2010 as part of a three-pronged approach with the…
Does the Minister accept that it was inappropriate for the Planning Appeals Commission to suspend the start of the public inquiry, contrary to the publicly expressed views of the three referring authorities — namely DAERA, DFI Roads and the DFI planning authority — which believed that the public inquiry should…