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I wish to update the House on support arrangements for controlled schools. The controlled schools sector is the largest such sector in Northern Ireland, comprising 49% of all schools. It is a particularly diverse sector, supporting nursery, special, primary, secondary, grammar, integrated and Irish-medium schools and…
Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I wish to talk briefly about the trade war that it looks like the president of the United States is to inflict upon the world. Obviously, we did not have a vote in the US presidential election in November, although there are strong opinions on the election of President Trump, for and,…
One year on from the return of the Executive, the uselessness of the arrangements supposedly put in place to justify that return is now clearer than ever. The DUP deal, which was sold as Safeguarding the Union, is now seen to be what many of us always said that it was: a con. The Irish Sea border has, far from…
I wish to highlight Tinnitus Week. This year's theme is the title of Tinnitus UK's report, 'Ringing the alarm: The tinnitus care crisis', and this week seeks to raise awareness of that crisis. Tinnitus is the name for the hearing of noises that are not caused by an outside source. It is common: around one in seven…
Today, our Prime Minister is in Brussels, working on a much-needed reset in relationships between our nation and the European Union. The meeting rightly focuses on our combined need to resist Russian aggression in Ukraine and to kick-start a much-needed rearmament of the EU and the United Kingdom in order to challenge…
Thursday 30 January was Stroke Prevention Day. In Northern Ireland, around 4,000 people every year suffer from a stroke. Worryingly, that number has been increasing over the past 20 years, particularly among people of working age. Strokes change lives in an instant. It is important that we have the most up-to-date…
Yesterday was World Wetlands Day. I take the opportunity to mark it in the Chamber on the first available day afterwards to highlight the importance of raising awareness of those remarkable habitats. World Wetlands Day happens each year on 2 February. Recognising the importance of wetlands allows us to appreciate…
Mr Speaker, the Member's forbidden prop was upside down — a bit like his argument. Today, I will talk about the ultra low emission zone (ULEZ) in London. Some Members might think, "How does that affect us and our constituents?". For many, it will not, but, for a growing number, it will, and it has. I have seen a…
I will discuss a matter that is of significant public concern in Derry and, I suspect, well beyond our city. Over the weekend, I was inundated, as, I am sure, many others in the Chamber were, with calls from school principals, teachers and parents who are dismayed that their schools are being denied basic funding to…
As I stand here, the Omagh bomb inquiry is ongoing in Omagh. I attended it last week to meet the families of those who lost loved ones and suffered the worst possible consequences of what was the most horrendous day of our very dark past. The pain, the anger, the frustration, the sense of loss and the void left by the…
I note that it is 11 days since storm Éowyn occurred. With power restored to almost all the 283,000 properties affected, I commend Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) for the mammoth task that it has undertaken to restore the electricity network, repairing almost the entire network in one week. My thanks go to everyone…
As a member of the Education Committee, I visit schools in my constituency of Lagan Valley weekly. They are all crying out for investment. The story that hit the media at the weekend about £710,000 being invested in a football pitch legitimately raised concerns. I make it clear that it is not about individual schools:…
Is í an tseachtain seo Seachtain Mheabhairshláinte na bPáistí. Tugann sí sin deis dúinn sa tSeomra aird a tharraingt ar an ghníomh phráinneach atá de dhíth chun tacú le daoine óga a bhfuil fadhbanna meabhairshláinte ag caitheamh orthu. Mar is eol dúinn, tá easpa oibrithe meabhairshláinte cáilithe ann le freastal ar an…
I rise to speak about an issue that has been raised in the media over the past couple of days in relation to Lisneal College, which is in my constituency. I had already been planning to make a statement in the Chamber on the success of Lisneal College, which has just marked 20 years since its formation. The school has…
Ms Bradshaw asked the Minister of Justice to describe how her proposed enabling access to justice reform programme might support work on speeding up justice.
Ms Nicholl asked the Minister of Justice, having noted that she was pleased to see the launch of the Power to Change campaign, whether she agrees that societal change to attitudes and behaviours is required to prevent and eliminate violence against women and girls, rather than just addressing it.
Ms Brownlee asked the Minister of Justice, further to comments from her colleague Jonathan Buckley, what measures are in place to protect prison officers against violent attacks when they are on duty, and whether she intends to improve and increase that protection, given that the number of such attacks has trebled to…
Ms Mulholland asked the Minister of Justice to clarify the criminal Bar's current demands, as she understands them, given that she mentioned earlier some of the issues at the heart of the criminal Bar's withdrawal of services.
Mr McNulty asked the Minister of Justice to explain why the number of women in prison has increased by 200% since before the pandemic, when there were just 40 women in prison, as, at a meeting with the Criminal Justice Inspection (CJINI) last week, he was told that there are now 120 women in prison here, more than…
Ms Brownlee asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister whether they can confirm the accuracy of the statement that Northern Ireland is the most dangerous place for women in the whole of Europe, as has often been said.
Mr Brooks asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, whilst thanking them for coordinating the response to storm Éowyn, and amid apparent concern about the vulnerability of the communications of blue-light services had the Executive not taken immediate action to secure them — a vulnerability that would…
Mr Crawford asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, given that we are just over one week on from storm Éowyn, for their assessment of how the Executive Office responded to the storm's damaging effects, which we all experienced.
Ms Sheerin asked the First Minister and the deputy First Minister to provide an explanation for the delay in introducing a new funding model for North/South bodies, including Foras na Gaeilge and the Ulster-Scots Agency, given that, just last week, Foras na Gaeilge had to announce a reduction in funding for local…
Mr O'Toole asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail when waiting times will be cut, given that it is the 1st anniversary of the resumption of the Assembly — albeit he presumes that he will not get a card in the post to mark one year as leader of the Opposition — the draft Programme for Government…