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To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of Housing Executive properties currently vacant, broken down by those vacant for (i) less than three months; (ii) three to six months; (iii) six to twelve months; and (iv) more than twelve months, in (a) Carrickfergus; and (b) Larne.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the total expenditure on temporary accommodation provision, in each local council area, in each of the last 12 months.
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 47191/22-27, to detail where it is stated that social housing provided by statutory bodies must include flooring as standard in kitchens and bathrooms.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the Housing Executive’s funding bid for £92.45 million for the Supporting People programme in 2026-2027, as per their projected expenditure, broken down by thematic area; (ii) any new pipeline schemes included within the bid, including the (a) thematic area; (b)…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department has made any assessment of funding pressures affecting homelessness services, including the impact on (i) service capacity; (ii) waiting times; (iii) temporary accommodation use; and (iv) people (a) at risk of; and (b) experiencing, homelessness.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether organisations who provide additional bed spaces when the Severe Weather Emergency Protocol is triggered are remunerated for doing so.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the anticipated completion dates for (a) his Department’s research into second-home ownership; and (b) research being commissioned into the nature, scale and potential impacts of short-term holiday lets on local housing markets; and (ii) whether the final reports of…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any discussions with the UK Government regarding reforms to Universal Credit childcare support, including increasing reimbursement rates and reducing upfront childcare costs for working parents.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) a breakdown of the amount of people displaced from their homes due to recent racist hate crimes and pogroms; and (ii) any support provided to affected households.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of emergency financial support provided to local councils and community organisations in response to disorder in June 2026.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of properties that have been purchased by the Housing Executive for use as temporary accommodation following his Department’s announcement on 26 March 2025.
To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on any work done by his Department to progress his review of homelessness legislation, in the last year.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail a timeline for (i) setting up the Homelessness Commission; and (iii) its work programme announced at the Housing Rights event on Monday 14 September 2026.
The Member makes a really good point, which I will accompany by saying that, even though we have all the legislation in place, as we do, to deal with this, some of the flags that are still flown cause serious offence to me.
I thank the Member for giving way. He is right, because the Bill is all about empowering the Department for Infrastructure. What goes up and what comes down, and how it is taken down, will be subject to the opinion of the Department. Mr O'Toole said that there was a contradiction, but there is not, because, under…
Does the Member think that that is the case? How do we solve that? The Member made a very valid point. I know that he is sincere about this, as am I. In my experience, the only way to deal with these issues — sometimes it does not work; in fact, 80% of the time it does not work — to get things moving when people are…
The Member asks a legitimate question. However, do you think that the people who put up those flags with the face of a terrorist on them are going to apply to notify the Department? Really?
FlaggedFlags, emblems, symbols, names and memorialsCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.
I want to tease out some of those comments, because there is a contradiction, if I may say, between what Mr Frew said and what Mr Buckley just said about enforcement. Mr Frew, I asked you a question about the flags on the A55 dual carriageway. Obviously, there are other flags that are associated with other proscribed…