03 Dec, 2024 College Marching Bands break the ice in Carrick A pair of college marching bands added a touch of pageantry to the streets of Carrickfergus last week.
02 Dec, 2024 Plan needed to address waiting times for PEG surgery - Dodds DUP Health Spokesperson Diane Dodds welcomed the Parents4Pegs group to Stormont this morning. The group are raising awareness of the waiting times for PEG insertion surgery that can only be carried out in the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. A percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) is a surgery to place a feeding tube. The PEG tubes allow the children in question to receive nutrition through their stomach. Currently the longest wait for this procedure is up to 150 weeks.
02 Dec, 2024 Businesses are being Taxed to Death In the latest epsiode of The Lions Roar, Gavin Robinson is joined by Diane Forsythe MLA and the CEO of childcare providers the Sleepy Hollow Group to focus on the inpact on business of the National Insurance rise in the budget.
02 Dec, 2024 Brett - Answers needed from Ulster Boxing Council on Protestant Boxer snub North Belfast MLA Phillip Brett has challenged the Ulster Boxing Council after they agreed a 5-figure settlement to a boxer who was snubbed for a place on the 2022 Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games team.
29 Nov, 2024 Vote a disappointing step towards monumental change: Lockhart Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has said the vote in Parliament on the Second Reading of the Assisted Dying Bill is a disappointing step towards a monumental change in how we value life.
28 Nov, 2024 Givan announces £1.2m Pre-School Support Fund for children with special educational needs Education Minister Paul Givan has announced a £1.2million Pre-School Education Inclusion Support Fund to support young children with special educational needs (SEN). The pilot Fund will provide resourcing to pre-school education settings with at least one child undergoing statutory assessment of their educational needs. Settings will receive a payment of £750 per month, per class to help them meet the needs of children with SEN.
28 Nov, 2024 We should protect life: Lockhart Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has said that the focus of our National Health Service must be to protect life. She was speaking ahead of the debate in Parliament on assisted dying on Friday.
27 Nov, 2024 Relevant decision makers must be held accountable for hospital fiasco - Dodds DUP Health spokesperson and Upper Bann MLA Diane Dodds has welcomed the decision of the Belfast Trust and the Department of Health to come and brief the Health Committee next week about the new Maternity Hospital.
27 Nov, 2024 Robinson challenges Prime Minister DUP Leader Gavin Robinson MP and Party colleagues Carla Lockhart MP and Gregory Campbell MP have met with the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer MP today in his Westminster office.