Since returning in February, the parties in power have passed non-binding motions calling for a funded childcare strategy, a ...

Stormont Opposition leader Matthew O'Toole outlines plans to poverty in Northern Ireland Stormont Opposition leader Matthew O'Toole speaks to media in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings ahead ...

Stormont Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole has called on Communities Minister Gordon Lyons to introduce a comprehensive child poverty strategy (Liam McBurney/PA) (PA Wire) Northern Ireland’s ...

Stormont Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole has pressed executive ministers over the lack of delivery in the weeks since the institutions were restored. Speaking on Tuesday during an assembly ...

So both parties spared themselves embarrassment last Tuesday by sending only a couple of assembly members each to the debate, a “two-MLA limit”, as SDLP Stormont leader Matthew O’Toole ...

The majority of the 79 MLAs who voted on the motion were absent for the debate that preceded it. Mr O’Toole said: “I would note with some regret today, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker [Caral Ni ...

Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole said the motion is one of a suite introduced on the second Opposition Day to target poverty. Stormont Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole has called on ...

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood (centre), with South Belfast MP Claire Hanna (left) and Opposition leader Matthew O’Toole at the first Opposition Day at Stormont (Rebecca Black/PA) These include ...

Northern Ireland’s administration is to be urged to remove the two-child limit for benefits payments as a key move to tackle childhood poverty. Some one in five children in the region are living ...