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Mr William Irwin: Assembly records
All of Mr William Irwin’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I thank the Minister for his response. What else can he commit to in support of the work of the Ulster-Scots Agency and that of the many other organisations that support the Ulster-Scots tradition?
To ask the Minister for Communities for an assessment of the number of pensioners in Northern Ireland who are eligible for, but have not claimed, Pension Credit.
The deputy First Minister will agree that addressing violence against women and girls is vital for a safer society. Can the Minister outline what funding, which she mentioned, is available to ensure that the draft strategic framework can be implemented?
I thank the Minister for his statement. I welcome that, in paragraph 42, he states: "It is both unfair and wrong to castigate farmers as part of some sort of entirely unproductive and divisive blame game." The vast majority of farmers want to play their part in reducing pollution in Lough Neagh and the benefits of…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the rationale behind the proposed closure of the phlebotomy drive-through blood clinic service at St Luke’s Hospital site, Armagh.
Paragraph 12 of the statement mentions that the NSMC "acknowledged the progress achieved" on improving air quality. Will the Minister update us on what progress has been achieved?
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail (i) the number of farmers that have had penalties greater than 15 per cent applied for repeated cross-compliance breaches; (i) how many of these were for environmental cross-compliance breaches; and (iii) the number of farmers that have had…
I thank the Minister for his response. Will he accept that his Department was too slow in making that decision? There was a backlog, and the situation was diabolical before the decision was made.
I thank the Minister for his response. One of the main issues is sight lines at junctions. Contractors are inclined to take one swathe with a width of around 1 metre or 1·5 metres, which is totally unacceptable and still does not give a clear sight line. The Minister needs to look at that issue.
I thank the Minister for his statement. To add to the Deputy Chair's question, TB is a serious issue. Was it discussed at the meeting yesterday, or was it not? It is important to learn lessons from the situation in the Irish Republic, where levels of TB are much lower than ours.
Mr Irwin asked the Minister for Infrastructure, given the massive backlogs in the past year, for an update on his Department's efforts to address MOT delays.
I thank the Minister for his response. Does he accept that the recent figures showing that 14,000 16-to-24-year-olds in Northern Ireland are not in employment, training or education are too high?
Mr Irwin asked the Minister what measures he will take to reduce the number of young people in Newry and Armagh who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).