1

AQW 17884/22-27

[Ms Paula Bradshaw]: To ask the Minister of Health when he will answer AQW 15015/22-27.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17879/22-27

[Ms Kellie Armstrong]: To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any assessment that has been made of the amount of money his Department would save if the Help for Travel Cost scheme was updated to include people on Universal Credit, therefore removing the requirement to process HC1 forms.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17878/22-27

[Ms Kellie Armstrong]: To ask the Minister of Health whether any financial assistance is available to enable children with disabilities to access in-patient dental treatment elsewhere in the UK or Ireland.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17877/22-27

[Ms Kellie Armstrong]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of children with disabilities awaiting in-patient dental treatment; and (ii) the average waiting time for in-patient dental services for children with disabilities, as of the end of October 2024, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17876/22-27

[Ms Kellie Armstrong]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail any actions being taken to reduce waiting times for children with learning disabilities, who are living in pain, to access in-patient dental treatment.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17875/22-27

[Ms Kellie Armstrong]: To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the number of meetings, including dates, he or his Department has had with officials in the Department of Health to encourage progression of the Help with Travel Costs scheme for people in receipt of Universal Credit.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17873/22-27

[Mr Stephen Dunne]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail any action his Department is taking to ensure staff safety is maintained as a result of the Right Care, Right Person policy.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17872/22-27

[Mr Stephen Dunne]: To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of his Department’s ability to deal with additional pressures from the Right Care, Right Person policy.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17871/22-27

[Mr Stephen Dunne]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail any consideration his Department has given to lowering the age limit for prostate cancer testing.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17870/22-27

[Mr Andy Allen MBE]: To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department will receive funding through the monitoring round to provide support to households struggling with the high cost of living.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17869/22-27

[Mr Andy Allen MBE]: To ask the Minister for Communities whether his Department (i) has developed; and (ii) is working on any cost-of-living proposals to provide support to households struggling with the high cost of living.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17867/22-27

[Ms Diane Forsythe]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on when the (i) A2 Shore Road, Rostrevor; and (ii) B27 Kilkeel Road, Hilltown, will fully reopen following last year's landslides.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17866/22-27

[Ms Diane Forsythe]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 16997/22-27 and AQW 16998/22-27, to detail the number of the cases that resulted in (i) clamping; and (ii) referrals to court.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17864/22-27

[Mr Phillip Brett]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure when he will make a decision on the Belfast Rapid Transit Phase 2 extending to Glengormley.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17862/22-27

[Mr Phillip Brett]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, pursuant to AQW 16993/22-27, (i) when the feasibility and options study was commissioned; and (ii) when it is due to be completed.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17853/22-27

[Ms Kate Nicholl]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail the work of the Trading Standards Service in preventing the sale of vape products to children.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17851/22-27

[Ms Kate Nicholl]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of businesses that have faced action from the Trading Standards Service in the last 12 months as a consequence of selling vape products to children.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17850/22-27

[Ms Kate Nicholl]: To ask the Minister of Health whether he plans to develop and implement a public health campaign around the dangers and potential harm of children using vaping products.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17848/22-27

[Mr Gerry Carroll]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure how the needs of community transport service users and the wider community are considered in the work of the cross-departmental working group on community transport.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17847/22-27

[Mr Gerry Carroll]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail (i) his legislative proposals for sustainable urban drainage; and (ii) an indicative time frame for introducing this legislation.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17846/22-27

[Mr Gerry Carroll]: To ask the Minister of Finance to detail any efforts to work with the Minister for Communities to increase investment in the arts.



  • Department of Finance

1

AQW 17845/22-27

[Mr Gerry Carroll]: To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the number of Heritage at Risk buildings; (ii) any work he has undertaken to support these buildings; and (iii) any assessment that has been made of the possibility of utilising a portion of these properties for housing.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17844/22-27

[Mr Gary Middleton]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail the current budget his Department has allocated to delivering on the Mental Health Strategy 2021-2031.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17843/22-27

[Mr Gary Middleton]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of passengers using the Londonderry to Coleraine rail service and onwards to Belfast in each of the last three years.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17842/22-27

[Mr Gary Middleton]: To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the steps his Department is taking to deliver an anti-poverty strategy.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17841/22-27

[Mr Gary Middleton]: To ask the Minister for Communities to detail what learning his Department can take from the Public Accounts Committee report on Child Poverty in Northern Ireland.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17840/22-27

[Mr John Blair]: To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department is implementing any measures to increase recycling rates in buildings used by his Department or its arm's-length bodies.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17839/22-27

[Mr John Blair]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether his Department is implementing any measures to increase recycling rates in buildings used by his Department or its arm's-length bodies.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17838/22-27

[Mr John Blair]: To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department is implementing any measures to reduce general waste in buildings used by his Department or its arm's-length bodies.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17837/22-27

[Mr John Blair]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether his Department is implementing any measures to reduce general waste in buildings used by his Department or its arm's-length bodies.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17835/22-27

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the Minister for Communities, in light of Ards and North Down Borough Council not publishing the names of councillors who attempted to call in the decision to fly the Union Flag from war memorials in the borough, to detail any measures he will take to promote transparency in local government.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17831/22-27

[Mr Andrew McMurray]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of (i) unadopted housing developments for which no bond is available; and (ii) housing developments for which the available bond is insufficient to bring the development up to an adoptable standard.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17830/22-27

[Ms Cheryl Brownlee]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail his Department's plans to reduce the age for prostate cancer testing.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17829/22-27

[Mr Matthew O'Toole]: To ask the Minister for Communities, in relation to his Department's social inclusion strategies, to detail the amount spent to prepare and create the (i) Gender Strategy; and (ii) Sexual Orientation Strategy.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17824/22-27

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the Minister for Communities to detail (i) the current employment status of the Chief Executive of Sport NI; (ii) whether the Chief Executive of Sport NI is currently being paid; and (iii) when the employment status of the Chief Executive of Sport NI will be resolved.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17823/22-27

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the Minister for Communities when the final governance review of Sport NI will be published.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17822/22-27

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) the number of former employees of her Department who have, since leaving their positions, been re-employed on a part-time or consultancy basis by her Department; (ii) the applicable amounts of remuneration in each case; and (iii) the agency within her Department they were re-employed, in each of the last three years.



  • Department of Finance

1

AQW 17819/22-27

[Miss Nuala McAllister]: To ask the Minister of Health whether he will be reviewing the guidance around eligibility for prostate cancer testing, in line with the review announced in England.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17818/22-27

[Mr Colm Gildernew]: To ask the Minister for Communities for an update on his Department’s considerations in relation to the Household Support Fund and how it may apply here.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17816/22-27

[Mr Mark Durkan]: To ask the Minister for Communities to detail any steps his Department is taking (i) to ensure Capita publish publicly-accessible Condition Insight Reports; and (ii) to facilitate access to these publications on the new Health Assessment Advisory Service website.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17815/22-27

[Mr Mark Durkan]: To ask the Minister for Communities to detail the steps his Department is taking to ensure that income used to calculate Rate Rebate as part of the Universal Credit application excludes Holiday Pay and Pay in Lieu of Notice.



  • Department for Communities

1

AQW 17814/22-27

[Mr Mark Durkan]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure whether he has engaged with NI Water in relation to the possibility of borrowing capital, based on revenue generated through non-domestic charges.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17813/22-27

[Mr Mark Durkan]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure, in relation to the pilot scheme to permit Class A and Class C taxis to use bus lanes in Belfast, to detail any consideration that has been given to the impact on cyclists.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17812/22-27

[Mr Justin McNulty]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the process for requesting a resident-only parking zone.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17811/22-27

[Mr Justin McNulty]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the current processing times for planning applications, broken down by local council area.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17805/22-27

[Mr Daniel McCrossan]: To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the latest Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services waiting list figures, which state that 299 patients in the Western Health and Social Care Trust have been waiting for an assessment for over nine weeks, compared to 155 patients in March 2023.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17804/22-27

[Mr Daniel McCrossan]: To ask the Minister of Health to detail the average time for a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services assessment to take place in the Western Health and Social Care Trust in each of the last five years.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17803/22-27

[Mr Daniel McCrossan]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for an update on the revival of the Portadown to Derry rail line, connecting Omagh and Strabane, as contained in the All-Ireland Strategic Rail Review.



  • Department for Infrastructure

1

AQW 17802/22-27

[Ms Paula Bradshaw]: To ask the Minister of Health why the pay rise to health service workers, due in April 2024, has not yet been paid.



  • Department of Health

1

AQW 17797/22-27

[Mr Maurice Bradley]: To ask the Minister for Infrastructure when he expects a decision to be made on planning application LA01/2016/1328/F.



  • Department for Infrastructure