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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 to detail the number of cattle that have been removed from farms as a result of bovine TB in (i) 2025; and (ii) 2026.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, given the delays that elected representatives have in receiving responses from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, how he can ensure that they receive responses in relation to bovine TB in good time.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the target time for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency to respond to a query from an MLA with a full response and not simply an acknowledgement.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any assessment he has made of the backlog of delays within the planning system, as a direct result of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency not responding to the consultant process in a reasonable time frame.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs for an update on any actions he has taken to address the increase in bovine TB cases.
Farmers and businesses are being asked to modernise, decarbonise and invest, yet we have been waiting for months and years for you, as Minister, to publish a consultation response. How is that credible leadership?
That was not much of an answer, but whatever. The Communities Minister has raised the important issue of tackling fraud and error in the benefits system. We all know that those who defraud the system are stealing from those who genuinely need that support. Why, then, do you not support the Communities Minister on that…
I pay tribute to a dear friend and colleague Mr Bert Johnston, who passed away peacefully at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen yesterday evening. I pass on our sympathies to his dear wife, Olive; his sons Mark and Paul; his grandchildren; the wider family circle; and all others who knew him. Bert was one of…
Mr T Buchanan asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, given that the window for introducing legislation is closing fast and that the Education Minister's proposals to address an inequality through the provision of a statutory body, with equivalent powers, for the controlled sector are sitting on the First…
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 33570/22-27, (i) whether the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has conducted the necessary investigations; and (ii) whether he is in a position to provide a full response.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 33572/22-27, (i) whether the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has conducted the necessary investigations; and (ii) whether he is in a position to provide a full response.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 33571/22-27, (i) whether the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has conducted the necessary investigations; and (ii) whether he is in a position to provide a full response.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 33573/22-27, (i) whether the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has conducted the necessary investigations; and (ii) whether he is in a position to provide a full response.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 33574/22-27, (i) whether the Northern Ireland Environment Agency has conducted the necessary investigations; and (ii) whether he is in a position to provide a full response.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail (i) any assessment her Department has made of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the United States of America and the UK Government for Securing of Supply in the Mining and Processing of Critical Minerals and Rare Earths, signed on 4 February 2026;…
Minister, do you agree that the deplorable state of the road network across all our constituencies, with such a plethora of potholes, is surely seriously compromising road safety under your watch?
To ask the Minister for Communities to outline any proposals his Department has to recognise the historic significance of Strabane native, John Dunlap and his role in printing the first copies of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of sick days recorded for local council workers, in each local council area, in (a) 2023-2024; and (b) 2024-2025; and (ii) the cost to each council.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of Housing Executive properties which (i) are currently vacant; and (ii) have been vacant for the past 12 months, in West Tyrone.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of people currently on a waiting list for social housing (a) awaiting a first-time home; (b) awaiting a housing transfer; and (c) awaiting a home due to homelessness, in West Tyrone; and (ii) the longest current waiting time in each category.