Roy Beggs MLA has highlighted the unacceptability of the Housing Executive's continuing reliance on expensive basic electricity to heat 201 of their homes and how they themselves are contributing to fuel poverty.

Roy Beggs MLA has backed the proposal from the Department of Finance & Personnel to retain rate exempt from Automatic Telling Machines (ATM's) in rural areas. The proposal will aim to give an additional incentive to rural businesses and banks to locate ATM's in rural areas, and benefit the rural community.

Roy Beggs, the UUP MLA for East Antrim has backed proposals that would see a rates deferral scheme for home owning pensioners. The proposal represents a new payment choice for owner-occupier pensioners who may not have the means to pay high rates bills or who are ineligible for rates relief or rates rebates.

East Antrim Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs Jnr has welcomed progress in providing more NHS dentists in the Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus districts. These areas were indentified by the Department of Health as lacking access to NHS dentistry, and as a result Minister Michael McGimpsey announced a new contract to provide access for an additional 57,000 health service patients across Northern Ireland last year.

Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs has expressed his concern following a report which indicated that more than 1,000 sex crimes against children were recorded by the PSNI in Northern Ireland last year.

Roy Beggs Jnr, UUP MLA for East Antrim has welcomed the Public Accounts Committee report on the 'Performance of the Health and Social Services in Northern Ireland' and in particular welcomed recommendation 6, which calls for early intervention so that children and their parents are better informed of health issues at an earlier stage.

The timing of Sammy Wilson MP MLA's announcement that he is to stand down as a Belfast City Councillor has been described as 'utterly cynical' by Ulster unionist MLA for East Antrim , Roy Beggs.

Following the decision of the District Commander Superintendent Henry Irvine to further restrict policing operation from Carrickfergus Police Station, Roy Beggs MLA said, 'As a Public Representative and a Member of the Carrickfergus District Policing Partnership, I was astonished to learn of the decision to restrict policing operations from Green Street PSNI Station via an email from the media. This is particularly unsatisfactory as during previous discussions on changes to policing operations within Carrickfergus I was advised that consultation would happen prior to any further proposed changes.'

Speaking during a debate on public sector job location in the Northern Ireland Assembly, Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs Jnr , has pointed out that the perennial complaint from the west of the Bann about unfair distribution of public sector jobs was a myth. Using official statistics, Mr Beggs claimed that East Antrim has a valid claim for a fairer deal in regards to civil service jobs.