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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.
Yesterday marked the commencement of Volunteers' Week, when organisations and all those throughout Northern Ireland who give of their time in a voluntary manner are recognised for their sterling work. It was a privilege to meet a number of groups in Omagh yesterday and present them with certificates to acknowledge the…
Mr T Buchanan asked the Minister of Health why his assessment of the cervical screening failures, including the six reports and his decision not to establish a statutory public inquiry, was confined almost in its entirety to the Southern Health and Social Care Trust, excluding all other trusts, despite clear evidence…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 46318/22-27, in relation to 62 full time staff and 25 part time staff employed in Sperrin House, to detail the number who work (i) full time from Sperrin House; (ii) part time from Sperrin House; and (iii) part time from home.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 46319/22-27, to detail the number of staff who work (i) full time in Sperrin House; (ii) part time in Sperrin House; and (iii) part time at home.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 46319/22-27, whether the five trained administrative staff in Sperrin House who assist customers on Farm Sustainability Payments are full time or part time employees.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 46319/22-27, in relation to the 20 technical staff within the Technical Delivery Unit, to detail the number who are (i) full time; and (ii) part time.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of prosecutions that were brought against hydro operators under Section 54 of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966, in each of the last ten years.
To ask the Minister of Justice whether she has any plans to introduce a no-smoking policy in prison cells, as is the case in England, Scotland and Wales.
I rise to oppose the Bill. The reasons for opposing it are threefold: it is legislatively weak, practically unworkable and fundamentally damaging to the rural people of Northern Ireland. The House has a duty to pass laws that are clear, proportionate, enforceable and grounded in evidence. This Bill fails to meet each…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of prosecutions that were brought against hydro operators under Section 59 of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966, in each of the last ten years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of prosecutions that were brought against hydro operators under Section 58 of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966, in each of the last ten years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) the number of his Department's staff in Sperrin House, Omagh, who are trained to access information to help and advise customers on the eligibility status of fields for their Farm Sustainability Payment application; and (ii) whether these…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of his Department's staff who are currently working in Sperrin House, Omagh on a (i) full time; and (ii) part time basis.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the rationale as to why there is no WiFi service for customers at Sperrin House, Omagh.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any steps he plans to take to ensure Sperrin House, Omagh has a WiFi service for its customers.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of homes in West Tyrone dependent on (i) heating oil; (ii) gas; (iii) electricity; (iv) solid fuel, as their primary source of home heating.
Thank you. Minister, some years ago, when firearms licensing went online, we were told that it would resolve the problems and make the service more effective, efficient and streamlined, free up personnel and resolve the backlog issues. What has gone wrong?
Mr T Buchanan asked the Minister of Justice, having noted that, in a previous answer, she mentioned a £2 million shortfall for firearms licensing, how effective or efficient the firearms licensing office is when it has accumulated a £2 million shortfall and a backlog of applications that runs to many months for which…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline any progress that has been made with the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in the last six months to reduce the backlog of consultation responses to planning applications.
I thank the Minister for his response. The report conservatively estimates that 1,032 excess deaths were associated with waits of 12 hours or more in Northern Ireland's emergency departments. Minister, that is the equivalent of 20 lives every week, which is catastrophic. Will you outline to the House what you are…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any education, skill development and resourcing available to midwifes to support them to continue to deliver high quality care in well-supported and enabling environments.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps his Department has taken to implement the core recommendations set out in the October 2024 report Enabling Safe Quality Midwifery Services and Care in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Health whether shared care is available for adults with ADHD who received a private diagnosis and where stable treatment is already there.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any support is available for low income disabled adult ADHD patients who have received a private diagnosis but cannot sustain private treatment.