Further and higher education is very clearly an economic issue, ensuring our population has access to the skills and knowledge needed to attract high quality jobs to NI and putting people in a position to get them.

Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing our world. It goes far beyond being an environmental problem, but is one that if not properly addressed, will drive and exacerbate poverty and global insecurity.

Today is an opportunity to ensure we keep HIV and AIDS education, awareness and treatment on the agenda, both publicly and politically; to ensure vital fundraising is undertaken to enable research as well as provide support for those people living with the disease locally and globally.

Trident, we’re told, is the UK’s insurance policy in an “uncertain” world. A relic of Cold War geo-politics, the £167billion it will cost to renew could be considerably better spent on problems we are certain about.

Four years into the ‘Decade of Centenaries’, the challenge remains to consign to history the acceptability of violence for political ends, and to embrace the complexity of shared history.

Many small businesses feel the Assembly is ignoring the reality of what is happening on our high streets and sidestepping the decisions that need to be made to bring entrepreneurs and vibrancy back to our high streets.

Wildflower Alley is a concerted effort to curb negative behaviour and crime, as well as helping with urban drainage and reducing the risk of flooding.

Any genuine attempt to move paramilitary gangs away from violence is to be cautiously welcomed but there is something worrying about formalising and co-opting these organisations in order to have them leave the stage

The establishment of a universal childcare model would have a transformative impact on those trying to balance home and work life.

With the conflict in Syria now in its fifth year, human rights violations have left more than 200,000 people dead and over half of the country’s population displaced.