Top of their agenda should be general recognition of the need for prompt and decisive action to halt the wave of  attacks on helpless old people whose homes are regularly being invaded, ransacked and  robbed by gangs  of cowardly face-masked thugs wielding  baseball bats, hatchets and other deadly  weapons  to use  on their terrified cowering victims. Sub-humans responsible for these atrocities should receive a mandatory prison  sentence of at least five years when caught and their pictures minus their masks published  in the newspapers, perhaps under a heading like “Shame on you…”
Owen Melville

As well as the bread & butter Issues which affect us all such as water, rates, health, etc. I would like the Assembly to deal with the victims/survivors of the Troubles as a priority.
Stan Rowan, Belfast

Better education and other facilities to prevent unwanted pregnancies and to help with unwanted pregnancies. Better employment rights for immigrants. Bicycle lanes in North Belfast- Antrim/Cavehill/Shankill road area. Take the global lead against the privatisation of water, and unfair water charges. Do research into the effects of privatisation support the third world countries- look at what is happening in Tanzania, Mexico, ete. It is not just a NI issue. Free travel for all over the age of 60.
Lynda Walker, north Belfast

I would like the Environment Minister to take seriously the problem of litter along our roads and in most public places. A good start would be a tax on plastic bags, as in the Republic. It now nearly impossible to go on any length of journey without seeing empty plastic bags on the road side and caught in hedges. They spoil the countryside for residents and visitors alike.
D Fulton, Ballymena

I would like Stormont to ban all ideologies in order to self-consciously choose to replace them with particularised humane responses to individuals in place in the present time.

The Power politics played out upon the people of this Province by extremists from Above, Below and from the Left and the Right will not simply disappear with the dissolution of the old structures.

Therefore, there is a demand for real courage to be shown by all Representatives in carrying responsibility for all their past actions in their envisioning of the future for the coming generations.

An inconvenient truth for those who believe in ahistorical progressive evolution is that their past actions have helped to create the present younger generations imaginative landscape.

Children learn their behaviour from watching what their elders do, not what they say.

Post apartheid South Africa has seen an explosion of youth led civil violence. The children of that revolution, raised on a diet of violence set within an internationally acclaimed revolution, witnessing the lies of individuals who have since proved to be only interested in their personal bank balances, are copying this behaviour within their personal sphere.

Since apartheid was, thankfully, broken, violent burglary, murder and rape have risen exponentially with the rise of the new politics.

I would therefore ask the representatives to look closely at those areas of policy which have been shown, through many academic studies, after the damage has been done, to be those which have the greatest effect on the psychological well being of a people.

For instance, the greedy destruction of the natural environment or of the known built city environment. Such ignorant behaviour is always a short sighted destruction of the cultural memory of people in place.

The ongoing benefits of allowing a landscape to breathe over time and be constantly re-created in conjunction with those that live within it is, unfortunately for all of us, invisible to brutalising economic measurements. The seemingly pointless civil violence that always erupts with its destruction, is certainly not.

Economically, no one can be anything but criminal if their environment is constantly being raked over.

For those individuals now privileged by being in seats of democratic power, it is not too late to allow the legacy of broken hearts carried by the children and grandchildren to mend, if vision, humility and kindness take precedence in their policy decisions rather than ahistorical puritanical politics.

If not, they shall reap Dragon's Teeth.
Dr Sara Craig Lanier, Kilwaughter, County Antrim

I want the Assembly to:

1.Negotiate a reduction in corporation tax to align with that in ROI in order to stimulate the local economy and to reduce our reliance on the public sector.

2. Focus more on tourism and the hospitality industry in order to create world class visitor venues such as Titanic Exhibition Centre and Giants Causeway Centre for example.

3. Maintain an agreed form of selection for post primary education.

4. Promote the benefits of Life Long Learning.

5. Have more emphasis on reducing our overall environmental foot print and on cleaning up our towns and cities.

6. Above all to work toward the achievement of a better quality of life for all of our people.

Kind regards and thanks for this opportunity to express my views.
Ian Johnston, Newtownabbey

Priority for education, confirming the use of academic criteria in the transfer to a differentiated secondary education. A total review of education instead of the current piecemeal approach to each sector.
G Beamish, Belfast

The N.I .Assembly must ensure the implementation of Un Resolution 1325 which it has signed up to. The resolution states that the increase of women in decision making processes is essential in order to build and sustain a peaceful society. A proper programme of financial support for women's organisations is needed to support the process.
Isobel Loughran, Belfast

I want

1. The replacement of Translink with a fully-funded Government
owned transport authority for the whole of Northern Ireland.

2. Stop MMC (modernising Medical Careers) and scrap the National Plan
for IT in the NHS.

3. Whatever the outcome of the 11+, support integrated education
across the board in NI's schools.

4. Reform the planning laws to protect Belfast's original Georgian &
Victorian buildings, and keep NI's countryside beautiful.

5. Sensible reform of alcohol licensing laws to shift the
responsibility for drunken and loutish behaviour back onto the industry.
Will McConnell, Belfast

I believe that education should figure very high on the priorities of the Assembly. Early intervention in primary schools and enhancement of secondary and primary education. This is the future for all communities and nowhere more so than Northern Ireland.
Michael Graydon

I believe that education should figure very high on the priorities of the Assembly. Early intervention in primary schools and enhancement of secondary and primary education. This is the future for all communities and nowhere more so than Northern Ireland.
Michael Graydon

We would hope that the Assembly would (a) cease to interfere with the proven and competent Grammar School sector and would use available extra resources to enhance the secondary and primary school sectors, giving more support to the needs of children with ASD, ADD and ADHD and (b) ensure greater administrative and visitor discipline within the Hospital sector of our health service.
Ken Maginnis, Joy Maginnis, Dungannon

I would like to see all those responsible for past 30+ years of needless bloodshed tried in court of law for their crimes against this country and its people.
Neill Craig

I would like to see them work out  a system that makes car insurance more affordable  for younger drivers. The cost is an absolute disgrace.
Martin Finnegan

An immediate review of political parties' recruitment and selection policies to enable more women to be elected into politics. Fairer rates system. Affordable childcare. Investment in the Social Economy sector. A Women's Commissioner.
May De Silva, Belfast

I would like

• a demonstrable commitment to Northern Ireland's Gender Equality Strategy through leadership and resources
• proper programme of financial support for women's organisations
• extensive consultation with women on policy and services
• gender proofing all public policy
• policy and programme to end trafficking and violence against women
• more support for and investment in entrepreneurial activity by women
• support for family planning and education on sexual health for young women
• appointment of more women as Chairs and Members of public bodies
• selection by political parties of equal number of female and male candidates in winnable seats in all elections, starting with the next Council election
  

Patricia Haren, Belfast

I want to see an end of the decimation against the West. Whether it be roads, closure of services in Tyrone and Altnagelvin, to jobs and investment. The Belfast Mandarins' days of power are over!
Diarmaid Elder, Derry City

As an expatriot from that beautiful island (having lived in Canada for the last 32 years) I was then and still am now wishing for peace in the auld sod. I read the Tele on line almost daily online. I think our wee province should be led and governered by representatives who live there. But I must say.....how can we repay or even understand the hurt of the families on both sides of those who died in this dispute. How can you put a monetary value on lost lives? Having not lived there for some time (been home many times).....I know have no right to comment on this subject but my heart is always thinking of my true home.
Alan and Caroline Forsythe, Canada

I want our MLAs to endorse and publish Planning Policy Statement 14 in full. I would also like to see them introduce much stronger measures to protect the environment, both urban and rural.
Andrew McClelland, Belfast

Openness and fairness, the ability to stand by the truth, by ballot box and referendum, ie a referendum of the people of northern Ireland to see if they desire to remain a part of the United Kingdom.

Do we want to pay for rates again, seeing as we have been paying rates for years now, and the silent valley was given to the people of Belfast for free years ago. Why has the infrastructure of the water ways ie pipeage system been allowed to fail so badly seeing as every householder in northern Ireland already pays water rates. Where has the money gone?
Mark, Holywood