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[Mr Matthew O'Toole]: To ask the Minister of Education for an estimate of the amount of outstanding capital funding required to complete the Strule Shared Education Campus.

[Mr Stephen Dunne]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail any action his Department is taking to increase the availability of defibrillators in schools.

[Ms Diane Forsythe]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the estimated increase in cost to the Education Authority employers contributions following the Autumn Budget 2024.

[Mr Nick Mathison]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the stakeholders from the health sector that will be invited to contribute to the Task and Finish Group on Reduction and Management of Restrictive Practices in Educational Settings.

[Mr Nick Mathison]: To ask the Minister of Education when the updated Integrated Education Strategy and Action Plan will be published.

[Mr Nick Mathison]: To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department will create a register for non-teaching staff, similar to the Northern Ireland Supply Teacher Register.

[Mr Nick Mathison]: To ask the Minister of Education for an update on the actions taken in response to thematic review of physical education in primary schools, published in October 2022.

[Miss Jemma Dolan]: To ask the Minister of Education for a timeline of the repair works at Erne Integrated College, Enniskillen.

[Mr Peter Martin]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the location of Nurture Groups in schools in North Down.

[Mrs Michelle Guy]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) whether the Education Authority Educational Psychology Service tracks the number of referrals made by Speech and Language Therapists for children of pre-school age; and (ii) the number of these referrals that have been (a) taken forward; and (b) rejected in the last five years.

[Mrs Michelle Guy]: To ask the Minister of Education whether private pre-school providers that are part of the Pre-school Education Programme Standardisation have access to all Education Authority support that statutory providers have access to.

[Mrs Michelle Guy]: To ask the Minister of Education for an update on outstanding capital projects for schools in Lagan Valley.

[Mr Pat Sheehan]: To ask the Minister of Education, in light of the Libraries for Primaries campaign findings that 41 per cent of primary schools currently lack access to a dedicated library space, to detail the steps he plans to take to address this gap and increase the number of primary schools with dedicated library facilities.

[Ms Kellie Armstrong]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail any additional funding that will be provided to the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education to deliver research to identify methods of establishing parental demand for integrated education.

[Mr Nick Mathison]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the capital funding available to schools moving to full time pre-school offer as part of standardisation of Pre-School Education Programme.

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the Minister of Education, in relation to the RAISE programme, to detail (i) how the seven criteria were identified and used together; (ii) the weighting that was used when applying these criteria; (iii) how the income deprivation and health and disability deprivation criteria are measured and how these impact upon the selection methodology; and (iv) when the Department will publish the methodology used and results obtained from this to produce the list of schools and areas invited to participate.

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the amount of (i) capital; and (ii) resource funding his Department or its arm’s-length bodies has provided to Glór Na Móna since 2007.

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of pupils that have been (i) expelled; and (ii) suspended from post-primary schools in each of the last five years.

[Mr Justin McNulty]: To ask the Minister of Education whether the Review of the Northern Ireland Curriculum will consider a statutory requirement for schools to educate pupils on the dangers of gambling as part of the core curriculum.

[Mr Daniel McCrossan]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of successful appeals against refusals to fund Home to School transport in each of the last five years, broken down by constituency.

[Mr Daniel McCrossan]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of successful applicants for Home to School transport in each of the last five years, broken down by constituency.

[Ms Paula Bradshaw]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail any response he will be making to the think1265 Directed Time Budgeting and Workload Survey that demonstrates that rights under the workload agreement, which formed part of the pay deal with teachers before the current term began, are not being implemented.

[Ms Paula Bradshaw]: To ask the Minister of Education for his Department's assessment of how the workload agreement, which was part of the pay deal agreed with teachers after he came to office, is currently functioning.

[Ms Sinéad McLaughlin]: To ask the Minister of Education whether the Northern Ireland Childcare Subsidy Scheme will be extended beyond the end of the 2024-25 financial year.

[Mr Nick Mathison]: To ask the Minister of Education to detail any engagement that has taken place with the Northern Ireland Training Council in relation to teacher workload.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister why the deputy First Minister or junior Minister Cameron did not attend the Service of Remembrance in Enniskillen on Sunday 10 November.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in light of the Strategic Framework to End Violence Against Women and Girls, for their assessment of biological men gaining access to female-only spaces.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, given their Department's responsibility for representing the interests of victims, why they did not issue a statement of condemnation following pro-IRA shouting at a memorial event to mark the 1987 Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in light of the reaction of victims of the 1987 Remembrance Day bombing that the First Minister had been invited to a Service of Remembrance in Enniskillen on Sunday 10 November, to detail any lessons that have been learned by their Department about sensitively engaging with victims and taking into account their concerns.

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to AQT604/22-27 and its supplementary, for an update on a proposed cross-departmental delegation to meet with the Home Office to try to resolve the issues in respect of visas for workers in the agri-food sector.

[Mr Daniel McCrossan]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail how they plan to spend the £7million allocated to their Department through the October Monitoring Round in relation to victims’ payments.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister when they were provided with a draft answer from officials to AQW 15820/22-27; and when the question will be answered.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister when they were provided with a draft answer from officials to AQW 15819/22-27; and when the question will be answered.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister when they were provided with a draft answer from officials to AQW 15667/22-27; and when the question will be answered.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister when they were provided with a draft answer from officials to AQW 15666/22-27; and when the question will be answered.

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the amount of (i) capital; and (ii) resource funding their Department or its arm’s-length bodies has provided to Glór Na Móna since 2007.

[Mr Matthew O'Toole]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister, pursuant to AQW 15328/22-27, for a timeline for the current review of the Together: Building a United Community Strategy.

[Ms Paula Bradshaw]: To ask the First Minister and deputy First Minister to detail the amount paid by their Department for (i) staff costs; (ii) office costs to cover the Northern Ireland Bureau in Beijing in financial year (a) 2021-22; (b) 2022-23; and (c) 2023-24.

[Mr Peter Martin]: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the support provided by his Department to Ards and North Down Borough Council to meet the 70 per cent recycling target, as set out in the Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022.

[Mr Matthew O'Toole]: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs whether he has attempted to bring a Climate Action Plan to the Executive for discussion in 2024.

[Mr Daniel McCrossan]: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs how he plans to spend the £2 million allocated through the October Monitoring Round for Tackling Rural Poverty and Social Isolation.

[Mr Colin McGrath]: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to AQW 17423/22-27, to detail (i) when waste licence LN/13/35 was amended to increase the maximum storage capacity from 10,000 tonnes to 20,000 tonnes; and (ii) why this variation was not noted in the Minister’s original response.

[Mr Timothy Gaston]: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail the number of staff that are employed by his Department to work on sanitary and phytosanitary checks.

[Mr Colin McGrath]: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any financial support available to potato farmers, impacted by flooding, where compensation is sought.

[Mr Stephen Dunne]: To ask the Minister of Justice for an update on letters issued by her Department to sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses in relation to the quashing of convictions.

[Ms Diane Forsythe]: To ask the Minister of Justice whether the £2.8 million provided in the October Monitoring Round for costs incurred by the PSNI due to disturbances over the summer is to reimburse monies already spent or to build resilience for the future.

[Mr Phillip Brett]: To ask the Minister of Justice to detail each bid she submitted to the Department of Finance as part of the October Monitoring Round.

[Mr Mark Durkan]: To ask the Minister of Justice to provide clarity on the Resource to Capital DEL switch for the NI Road Safety Partnership.

[Miss Michelle McIlveen]: To ask the Minister of Justice, pursuant to AQW 17097/22-27, and further to the Department of Environment, Agriculture and Rural Affairs press release on 17 October 2024 in relation to sentencing for waste criminality, to detail the amount of legal costs and associated expenses expended by the (i) Public Prosecution Service of Northern Ireland; and (ii) PSNI for (a) extradition; and (b) prosecution.