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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.
I welcome the opportunity to say a few words at Second Stage of the Fisheries, Aquaculture and Water Environment Bill. It is overdue legislation, which touches on three interlinked systems: commercial fisheries; growing the aquaculture sector; and the wider water environment, with an ambition to modernise regulation…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail when her Department expects the court hearing for the challenge to the proposed A5 Western Transport Corridor to be forthcoming.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether the post and wire fencing, removed along the route of the A5 Western Transport Corridor, will be recycled or taken to a dump site.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the amount of post and wire fencing, in kilometers, that has now been removed along the route of the proposed A5 Western Transport Corridor.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the amount of post and wire fencing, in kilometers, that was erected along the route of the proposed A5 Western Transport Corridor.
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the total cost of erecting and removing the post and wire fencing along the route of the A5 Western Transport Corridor, including the cost of the materials.
Minister, under your watch, many miles of posts and wire fencing were put up along the A5 western transport corridor. However, in the past few weeks, a good bit of that has been removed by a mechanical digger and pushed into a pile for dumping. Do you accept that that is an outrageous waste of public money — it…
Mr T Buchanan asked the Minister for Infrastructure what assessment she or her Department has carried out of the environmental damage that has been caused throughout the very heart of his constituency of West Tyrone by the total destruction of acres of farmland for the A5 western transport corridor, which is now lying…
Minister, do you agree that those costs are having a huge impact on major capital projects in, for example, Health and Education, which are being starved of capital funding? Is it down to the amount that they have to spend on climate change?
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the funding source any additional money for bovine TB compensation will come from, in the (i) 2026-27; and (ii) 2027-28 financial years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any additional financial support he plans plan to bring forward for hill farmers.
At the outset, I welcome the importance of the legislation before the House today. While it is a step in the right direction for our towns and villages, it is perhaps not the silver bullet that covers all the areas that will be brought into focus. I acknowledge the scrutiny that the Bill was subject to in Committee.…
Two weeks ago, I attended a special memorial service in Castlederg to mark the 38th anniversary of the brutal murder of Lance Corporal Michael Darcy on 4 June 1988 by the IRA, the bedfellows of Sinn Féin. While the IRA, which was responsible for decades of murder, violence, intimidation and human rights violations,…
Minister, given the absence of clarity on funding for councils, do you not accept that the Bill risks being legislatively sound but financially undeliverable by councils?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the rationale as to why the Western Health and Social Care Trust was excluded from the scope of his analysis into the cervical screening programme, given that at least 17 women received incorrect smear results, some repeatedly with life-altering clinical consequences.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any consideration that was given to the testimony of a Consultant Pathologist into their concerns of cervical screening; and (ii) the rationale as to why this evidence was not sufficient to trigger a broader investigation across all Health and Social Care Trusts.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any assessment was made on the restriction of the review of the cervical screening programme to one Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health, given that the pattern of underperformance of cervical screening in the Western Health and Social Care Trust has similar issues to those identified in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, to detail the rationale as to why was this not treated as evidence of a wider systemic failure…
Thank you for that, Minister. That is welcome. Do you accept that the women in the Western Trust were denied the same level of scrutiny and potential redress as those in the Southern Trust? On the back of that question, is the real reason that the Western Trust was excluded because, if it had been included, it would…