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To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the amount of funding his Department has allocated to schemes specifically aimed to support British Army veterans.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any (i) individuals; and (ii) organisations, his Department engaged with in relation to reforming the liquor licensing laws, prior to the decision not to accept the majority of recommendations contained within the Report of the Independent Review of the Liquor Licensing…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the estimated cost of any damage caused to Housing Executive properties during the recent racially motivated violence.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of staff within his Department who have been redeployed to operate the Veterans Support Line NI.
To ask the Minister for Communities, in relation to the Programme for Government 2024-2027 commitment to provide more affordable housing, to detail any engagement and representations they have made on the issue of rent caps.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) any funding allocated to the Lyric Theatre for the 2026–2027 financial year; (ii) whether his Department is aware of reports that the organisation is facing a funding shortfall of approximately £200,000; and (iii) whether any additional funding or support is being…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) whether, following the agreement between the UK and Irish Governments to disregard payments under Ireland’s Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme for the purposes of means-tested benefits, his Department will align with the Department for Work and Pensions; and…
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any assurances they can give to community and voluntary youth organisations, including Ógras Centre Coalisland, which may have to close their summer schemes for young people in areas of deprivation this year as a result of the failure to agree a Budget in time.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any assurances he can give community and voluntary youth organisations, including Ógras Centre Coalisland, that the summer schemes they run each year for young people in areas of deprivation will continue to receive departmental funding in the absence of an agreed budget.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any rural impact assessments carried out on proposed cuts to funding for summer schemes run by community and voluntary youth organisations, including Ógras Centre Coalisland, in the continued absence of an agreed budget.
To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps he is taking to address the financial uncertainty now facing community and voluntary youth organisations, including Ógras Centre Coalisland, in the continued absence of an agreed budget.
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 47990/22-27, to detail any representations he (i) has made; and (ii) intends to make, to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport following the UK Government's confirmation that it has no plans to extend the statutory levy on remote gambling operators to Northern…
To ask the Minister for Communities, pursuant to AQW 47991/22-27 and AQW 47993/22-27, whether his Department has sought confirmation from the Gambling Commission of the specific enforcement powers it holds in respect of remote gambling advertising in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department has carried out any assessment of the preparatory policy work that must be completed during the current 2022-2027 Assembly mandate to enable a comprehensive Gambling Bill, covering remote and non-remote gambling, to be introduced in the 2027-2032 Assembly…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department has prepared (i) draft policy proposals; and (ii) heads of a bill, to provide for a comprehensive regulatory framework covering remote and non-remote gambling.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I do not think that we will take a full hour. I am sure that everybody will be glad to hear that. I rise to inform you of the work of the Committee on Procedures regarding the scrutiny of delegated powers in Bills and our consideration of whether Standing Orders should formally recognise…
I thank the Member for his questions. It is good to have clarity on them. The change is not about reducing any protections, weakening democracy or limiting free speech; rather, the repeal is about modernising our procedures so that they reflect the current standards regime and the system of accountability, which…
I appreciate the Chairperson's giving way. I am relatively new to this, but I was briefly a member of the Committee on Procedures. I have a bit of an interest in a couple of matters, so I want to get clarity, for the record, on what is meant by the motion. By repealing Standing Order 70, we are not in any way…
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am pleased to bring to the Assembly, at the request of the Committee on Standards and Privileges, a motion to repeal Standing Order 70, rename the Committee on Standards and Privileges and make the necessary consequential amendments to Standing Orders. Standing Order 70 deals…
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank the Members who contributed to the debate. It might have been a short debate, but it is on an important issue. The regulations represent my Department's ongoing commitment to driving forward the highest possible standards of animal welfare. This is one of the key areas…
I, like others, rise as a member of the AERA Committee in support of the regulations, which seek to make CCTV mandatory in our slaughterhouses. I do not intend to repeat all of the relevant points that have been covered by the Committee Chair and Committee colleagues. The regulations are a pillar in Minister Muir's…
At its core, this is a practical and proportionate step to strengthen animal welfare, improve public confidence and bring Northern Ireland into line with the rest of the United Kingdom. For some time now, there has been a gap in our regulatory framework. While England introduced similar measures in 2018, with Scotland…