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Mr Colin McGrath: Assembly records
All of Mr Colin McGrath’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of patients currently waiting for urgent and routine cataract surgery, broken down by waiting time of (i) less than one year; (ii) one to two years; (iii) two to three years; and (iv) more than three years.
To ask the Minister of Education whether his Department intends to introduce mandatory whole-school bereavement policies and age-appropriate grief education.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any assessment his Department has undertaken of the impact of childhood bereavement on (i) pupil attendance; (ii) educational attainment; (iii) exclusions; and (iv) emotional wellbeing, including any findings.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail the number of teachers and school that staff have received Department-funded training in childhood grief and bereavement support, broken down by Education Authority area, in each of the last five academic years.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any recommendations from the November 2024 Bereavement Support in Schools Report that have been implemented; and (ii) a timeline for implementing any outstanding recommendations.
To ask the Minister of Education to detail (i) any reasons why grief and bereavement education has not been explicitly included in the proposed revised curriculum; and (ii) any consideration that was given to its inclusion.
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I sometimes wonder whether we have forgotten what this place is for. Not why we created it — we know the history — but what it is actually for. Somewhere along the way, we appear to have confused the sharing of power with the exercise of leadership. We have become very good at…
It is just a quick one. Do you acknowledge the difference between the collapse of a service and a planned transformation? What we are seeing, in the greater part, is the collapse of services, whereas, if we had what we are talking about, which is a planned transformation, that will be all of us moving in the direction…
Thank you, Minister, for the reply. It is notable that some of the people shouting loudest for this place to be collapsed are not even of this parish; they are of a parish over in London. For five of the past 10 years, courtesy of Sinn Féin and the DUP, there has been no Executive. What impact has that had on getting…
Minister, if the funding has not been earmarked, can you update us on how the Health Minister will ensure that our hard-working domiciliary care staff will get the real living wage that has been promised to them?
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I rise to present this petition on behalf of the people of Kilclief, particularly the children, parents, staff and wider school community of St Malachy's Primary School who are fighting to protect the future of their school. For generations, St Malachy's has been at the heart of Kilclief. It is…
Mr McGrath asked the Minister of Health, having noted that it has been a difficult fortnight for politics here but that, as ever, it has been a difficult and busy period for our health service, what the impact on health services for the rest of the mandate will be if either the First Minister or the deputy First…
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department has identified any opportunities to utilise additional funding, arising from changes to adult social care policy in England, to improve the (i) provision; (ii) accessibility; and (ii) sustainability, of adult social care services in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any assessment his Department has undertaken of potential Barnett consequential funding, arising from the proposed changes to adult social care funding arrangements in England.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any consideration his Department has given to reforming the adult social care system in Northern Ireland, in light of recent proposals for reform in England.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of dental practices in the South Down constituency that are currently accepting new NHS patients; and (ii) any support that is available, through the Dental Access Scheme or other arrangements, for patients who are unable to secure NHS dental registration.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any steps his Department is taking to ensure that patients in South Down, who have lost access to NHS dental services due to their dental practice moving to private provision, can register with an alternative NHS dentist.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any measures that are being taken to ensure that the expansion of bowel cancer screening does not increase diagnostic waiting times for patients already presenting with symptoms suggestive of bowel cancer.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of patients currently awaiting a (i) colonoscopy; and (ii) CT colonography, broken down by (a) Health and Social Care Trust; (b) referral priority; and (c) the number that have been waiting more than two, four, six and thirteen weeks.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any assessment that has been undertaken of the additional demand for colonoscopy and CT colonography, arising from the planned expansion of bowel cancer screening eligibility; and (ii) any additional (a) funding; (b) staffing; and (c) diagnostic capacity, that will be…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any waiting time standards that apply to patients, referred by their GP with symptoms suggestive of bowel cancer, including (a) a change in bowel habit; and (b) a positive stool blood test; and (ii) the proportion of patients that have received diagnostic investigations…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any assessment that has been undertaken of the potential impact on maternal and neonatal safety of transferring the maternity assessment services from Daisy Hill Hospital to Craigavon Area Hospital, particularly for women presenting with reduced fetal movements, bleeding or…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 47865/22-27, to detail any discrepancy between reported assessment activity and those assessments that could not proceed because of Continuing Healthcare policy issues.