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McCrossan: Schools feeling pressure from cost of living emergency
SDLP West Tyrone MLA Daniel McCrossan warns schools face a deepening cost of living crisis, citing Education Authority advice of a threefold rise in heating costs. He calls on the Education and Finance Ministers to fund schools for heating bills and on the Education Authority to publish a support…
Education Economy and employment Issue: Education Authority advice on schools' heating cost increases Original release: McCrossan: Schools feeling pressure from cost of living emergency (opens in a new tab)
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Government must deliver on wind energy potential to reduce bills and meet climate targets – Maurice Quinlivan TD
Sinn Féin TD Maurice Quinlivan, who chairs the Oireachtas enterprise committee, urges the government to boost investment and planning reform for offshore wind, ahead of a committee visit to Belfast Harbour, the only one of 13 major Irish ports ready for offshore wind construction.
Environment and climate Economy and employment Issue: Wind Energy Ireland report on Irish ports' offshore wind readiness Original release: Government must deliver on wind energy potential to reduce bills and meet climate targets – Maurice Quinlivan TD (opens in a new tab)
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‘Executive needed urgently to start fixing health service’ – Gildernew
Sinn Féin MLA Colm Gildernew calls for a new Executive without delay to tackle health service problems, including recruiting more doctors and nurses, cutting waiting lists and investing in cancer and mental health care. He blames the DUP's refusal to let the Assembly and Executive function for…
Health Issue: Health minister Robin Swann meeting on Executive formation and health service pressures Original release: ‘Executive needed urgently to start fixing health service’ – Gildernew (opens in a new tab)
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Ní Chuilín urges solution to Iveagh Centre crisis
Health Original release: Ní Chuilín urges solution to Iveagh Centre crisis (opens in a new tab)
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Parental choice in education must be paramount: Dodds
DUP MLA Diane Dodds argues that parental choice must be paramount in education and opposes removing schools' use of academic criteria in admissions. She responds to an Ulster University paper on transforming education, saying it seeks a fully comprehensive system and pointing to the Fair Start…
Education Issue: Ulster University transforming education paper publication Original release: Parental choice in education must be paramount: Dodds (opens in a new tab)
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‘Patients cannot wait any longer for a functioning Executive’ – Gildernew
Sinn Féin MLA Colm Gildernew calls for an Executive to be formed now, with £1 billion of extra health funding, after reports of around 300 more deaths than expected this year. He urges the DUP to end its boycott of government and says his party will meet the health minister on recruitment and…
Health Public finance and taxation Issue: Reports of 300 excess deaths in health service pressures Original release: ‘Patients cannot wait any longer for a functioning Executive’ – Gildernew (opens in a new tab)
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Health Minister must tackle Gender Identity Clinic Staff Shortages – Sheerin
Sinn Féin MLA Emma Sheerin urges the Health Minister to tackle staffing gaps at the Brackenburn gender identity clinic, where over 500 people were reportedly waiting as of April. She links the problem to a need for an Executive to fund extra health recruitment.
Health Disability and equality Issue: Brackenburn gender identity clinic waiting list and staffing shortages Original release: Health Minister must tackle Gender Identity Clinic Staff Shortages – Sheerin (opens in a new tab)
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Hunter expresses concern at wait for smear test results
SDLP East Derry MLA Cara Hunter says she is very concerned that every health trust in the North has missed its four-week target for reporting smear test results. She warns that long waits could delay treatment for cervical cancer and calls for better for women.
Health Issue: Health trusts miss four-week smear test results target Original release: Hunter expresses concern at wait for smear test results (opens in a new tab)
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Executive must be formed to secure funding for mental health projects – Flynn
Sinn Féin MLA Órlaithí Flynn urges the DUP to end its blocking of a new Executive, after health officials flagged a £3 million shortfall in mental health and suicide prevention funding. She says she has contacted the Health Minister about protecting these services.
Health Public finance and taxation Issue: Health officials report £3 million shortfall in mental health and suicide prevention funding Original release: Executive must be formed to secure funding for mental health projects – Flynn (opens in a new tab)
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Green Party Leader reacts to new Conservative Prime Minister’s proposals.
Green Party leader Mal O'Hara criticises the new Conservative Prime Minister's proposals as light on detail, calling the return of fracking a dereliction of duty and saying little detail covers Northern Ireland's separate energy market. He calls for an immediate returned Executive and says the DUP…
Economy and employment Social security and welfare Issue: New Conservative Prime Minister's energy and cost-of-living proposals Original release: Green Party Leader reacts to new Conservative Prime Minister’s proposals. (opens in a new tab)
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Executive needed to improve childcare and early education- Brogan
Sinn Féin MLA Nicola Brogan welcomes the Education Minister's commitment to gradually expand pre-school provision to 22.5 hours weekly, arguing it must sit within a wider childcare strategy. She calls for a departmental review of current provision and an Executive restored urgently, and accuses…
Education Issue: Education Minister's pre-school provision announcement Original release: Executive needed to improve childcare and early education- Brogan (opens in a new tab)
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Drip feed of Neurology recalls is traumatic for patients – Ní Chuilín
Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín calls on the Belfast Trust to keep all patients affected by the neurology scandal updated as a further 19 cases are reviewed in the fifth recall. She says the repeated recalls are traumatic and urges a thorough, transparent investigation.
Health Issue: Belfast Trust neurology patient recall of further 19 cases Original release: Drip feed of Neurology recalls is traumatic for patients – Ní Chuilín (opens in a new tab)
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McIlveen announces move towards 22.5 hours of funded pre-school for…
DUP Education Minister Michelle McIlveen says the Department is working towards funded pre-school for all 3-4 year olds at a minimum of 22.5 hours weekly, starting with a pilot of new full-time statutory nursery places. She has also asked the UK Chancellor to raise Tax-Free Childcare from 20% to…
Education Issue: Education Minister's pre-school provision announcement Original release: McIlveen announces move towards 22.5 hours of funded pre-school for… (opens in a new tab)
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Cllr Barry McKee urges careful disposal of fishing equipment
Green Party Councillor Barry McKee urges anglers and the public to dispose of fishing lines and equipment properly, after helping free a young herring gull tangled in line at Millisle. He commends a council Parks worker for his efforts.
Environment and climate Local government Original release: Cllr Barry McKee urges careful disposal of fishing equipment (opens in a new tab)
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Egan: Pre-school provision falls short of what parents need
Alliance's Connie Egan says the Education Minister's plan for a minimum of 22.5 hours of pre-school education weekly falls well short of parents' needs. She calls for a universal, government-subsidised childcare scheme and urges the Minister to publish a Childcare Strategy.
Education Issue: Education Minister's pre-school provision announcement Original release: Egan: Pre-school provision falls short of what parents need (opens in a new tab)
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Hunter urges Education Minister to avert teachers’ strike action
SDLP East Derry MLA Cara Hunter urges Education Minister Michelle McIlveen to negotiate a fair pay agreement with teaching unions and avert strike action ballots over pay and working conditions as pupils return to school.
Education Economy and employment Issue: Teachers' strike ballots over pay and working conditions in the North Original release: Hunter urges Education Minister to avert teachers’ strike action (opens in a new tab)
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McCrossan: Ambition must be to provide 30 hours free childcare
SDLP West Tyrone MLA Daniel McCrossan says the Education Minister's plan for 22.5 hours of pre-school education is not ambitious enough and calls for at least 30 hours of free childcare a week in any childcare strategy.
Education Economy and employment Issue: Education Minister's pre-school provision announcement Original release: McCrossan: Ambition must be to provide 30 hours free childcare (opens in a new tab)
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Quest for truth and justice goes on for victims of neurology scandal, says Bradshaw
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA says much work remains beyond the Independent Neurology Inquiry to deliver truth and justice for families bereaved by misdiagnoses. She calls for urgent assurance that the failings are not ongoing and for families to get immediate access to the truth.
Health Issue: Independent Neurology Inquiry report publication Original release: Quest for truth and justice goes on for victims of neurology scandal, says Bradshaw (opens in a new tab)
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McCrossan questions ongoing problems with sub teachers register
SDLP West Tyrone MLA Daniel McCrossan questions continuing problems with the Northern Ireland Supply Teacher Register after the Education Authority closed phone lines due to high demand. He says he has asked the EA about the backlog, timescale and reasons for the closure, and calls for…
Education Issue: Northern Ireland Supply Teacher Register (NISTR) launch problems and phone line closure Original release: McCrossan questions ongoing problems with sub teachers register (opens in a new tab)
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Executive needed to extend electronic death certification – Gildernew
Sinn Féin MLA Colm Gildernew says the temporary law allowing doctors to certify deaths electronically will lapse in three weeks, blaming the DUP's Executive stalemate, and backs calls to extend it.
Health Issue: Temporary electronic death certification law set to expire Original release: Executive needed to extend electronic death certification – Gildernew (opens in a new tab)