[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.

[Mr Stephen Dunne]: To ask the Minister of Justice how her Department intends to utilise the additional (i) Resource Department Expenditure Limit allocations; and (ii) Capital allocations, provided to her Department as outlined in the Minister of Finance statement on 11 November 2024.

[Ms Connie Egan]: To ask the Minister of Justice whether the Tackling Paramilitarism, Criminality and Organised Crime programme will continue on current funding levels beyond the end of March 2025.

[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.

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

[Mr Matthew O'Toole]: To ask the Minister of Justice whether the outstanding recommendations of the Gillen Review in relation to reform of the reasonable belief defence in sexual assault and abuse trials will be implemented during the 2022-2027 mandate.

[Mr Matthew O'Toole]: To ask the Minister of Justice whether the outstanding recommendations of the Gillen Review in relation to education for juries will be implemented during the 2022-2027 mandate.

[Mr Matthew O'Toole]: To ask the Minister of Justice whether misogyny or gender-based hate will be included as a category of hate crime in planned upcoming reform of hate crime legislation.

[Ms Cara Hunter]: To ask the Minister of Justice, following a spike in the reported incidences of dog fouling in the Causeway Coast and Glens district, to detail the number of people in Northern Ireland that have been prosecuted for the fouling of lands by dogs in 2024.

Technological advancements allow diabetes patients to monitor their glucose levels remotely. Stanford Medicine researchers are refining similar tools for Parkinson’s patients and the providers they don’t see often enough.

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Custom designing proteins — a breakthrough recognized by the latest Nobel Prize in chemistry — could yield treatments that stop the worst of COVID-19 before it begins.

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Stanford Medicine researchers on the hunt for an elusive cardiac fibrosis drug were surprised when a malaria drug with ancient origins emerged as their top candidate.

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The Committee for Infrastructure has expressed its disappointment at a Translink fare hike at their last meeting before the election.

The Committee for the Executive Office today called for a joined-up approach to ongoing scrutiny and monitoring of Government delivery in its report on the draft Programme for Government 2016-21.

The Northern Ireland Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee has reiterated its determination to get to the bottom of the issues in its inquiry into the non-domestic renewable heat incentive scheme.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has welcomed the start of legislation that will enable preparations for the York Street Interchange Scheme to begin.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has welcomed the decrease in the backlog in processing Blue Badge applications.

The Assembly’s Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (AERA) Committee held its meeting today (Thursday 24 November) at Ebrington, where Members received an update from Departmental officials on illegal dumping and waste crime.

The Committee for Infrastructure has welcomed the review of the renewal process for Blue Badge holders, announced yesterday by the Infrastructure Minister.

The Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (AERA) Committee has highlighted that farmers may need to ensure that planning permission is in place or that they have already applied for the necessary permissions to avail of the new Farm Business Improvement Scheme (FSIB) Tier Two.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has welcomed the plans to go ahead with the York Street Interchange Scheme announced yesterday by the Minister for Infrastructure.

The Committee for Education in partnership with the Assembly Education Service has today launched a special interactive art initiative, as part of a range of Committee activities, to highlight Anti-Bullying Week 2016.

The Assembly’s Health Committee has welcomed the joint publication of the Report the Expert Panel chaired by Professor Bengoa and the Minister’s document “Health and Wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together”.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has welcomed the £30 million funding boost for infrastructure detailed in the October Monitoring statement.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has today visited the Waterways Ireland headquarters in Enniskillen.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has today visited the Connswater Community Greenway to see how the park is improving the quality of life for local people.

The Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Infrastructure has welcomed the introduction of online applications for blue badges.

Lesley Hogg, the new Clerk/Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Assembly has taken up her post.

The Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Robin Newton MBE, MLA will be among those attending the Battle of the Somme Commemoration at the Irish National War Memorial Gardens at Islandbridge in Dublin tomorrow. The event is being hosted by the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny T.D.

The Assembly’s Committee for the Economy calls for the clear failures highlighted by the Audit Office report into the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme to be urgently addressed. The highly critical Audit Office report indicated that there could be considerable cost to the taxpayer following serious systematic failings in the Scheme.

The Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Mitchel McLaughlin MLA has expressed his delight at the significant increase in female Members returned during last week’s Assembly elections and stressed the importance of building on it.

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Town Crier reads the Election Results at Return Day in Georgetown, Delaware.

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At Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware.

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Celebrity Sandhill Cranes at Bombay Hook NWR, Delaware. They arrived a few years ago and made BHNWR their permanent residence. No offspring yet.

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Return Day in Georgetown, DE.
Heading downtown for the festivities.
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The woman liked the music by Sticky Situations (live band) so much that she wanted to dance even though the guy was eating a sandwich.
Georgetown, during Return Day.
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Oracle ACE Directors Ron Batra and Bex Huff, Oracle A-team member Randy Stafford, and Oracle Enterprise Architect Eric Stephens discuss what separates developers and an architects.

Should the title "Software Architect" be reserved for those with some sort of certification? Architects Ron Batra, Bex Huff, Randy Stafford, and Eric Stephens talk it out.

Architects Ron Batra, Bex Huff, Randy Stafford, and Eric Stephens discuss the career path from developer to software architect and talk about whether a great developer necessarily makes a great architect.

Panelists Ron Batra, Bex Huff, Randy Stafford, and Eric Stephens share their hot-button issues regarding certain practices among software architects.

Paul Preiss discusses the origins, background, and mission of IASA, the global organization dedicated to promoting the profession of IT architecture.

IASA CEO Paul Preiss discusses the future of IT architecture and the roles education and certification will play in defining the profession.

SOA gurus Erl and Manes talk about their latest book, "SOA Governance: Governing Shared Services on Premise and in the Cloud."

Erl and Manes discuss how to deal with SOA footdraggers and the impact of cloud computing on SOA.

Erl and Manes discuss upcoming books in the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series and about their takeaways from the SOA and Cloud Symposium in Brazil.