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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, pursuant to AQW 46135/22-27, to detail (i) the dates on, and forums in which, the appropriateness of Health and Social Care Trusts continuing to be responsible for undertaking Patient Safety Incident Learning Reviews was fully considered; (ii) any stakeholders outside of his Department's…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 45206/22-27, whether all of the Serious Adverse Incident recommendations from the Hyponatraemia Inquiry which have not yet been implemented have been individually presented to and considered by (i) the family member representatives on the Redesign Programme structures;…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any process by which the Framework for Learning and Improvement from Patient Safety Incidents was developed; (ii) the dates of the first six meetings of the Steering Group overseeing the development of the Framework; (iii) any papers tabled at each of these first six…
I thank the Bill sponsor for bringing the Bill to Second Stage. Of course, the debate is just on the general principles of the Bill; we do not need to get down into the roots of all the matters that are in it. I want my speech to be a bit different. Rather than talking about the specifics of the Bill, I will give a…
Once again, a vital service is being threatened with removal from a rural community, not as part of an ambitious plan for transformation but after years of warnings about staffing pressures and the Department's failure to address them. The Executive have had two and a half years to deliver the transformation they…
I welcome some of that news, but I want to be careful about some of the language. If it is on a cost-per-case basis and if it means that there are criteria, that means that some people will get access to the drug and that some will not. Where it is available in other places in these islands, there is unrestricted…
Mr McGrath asked the Minister of Health, following the decision this week to make Enhertu available to women with HER2-low advanced breast cancer in England as well as other places in these islands, to explain why women and, indeed, men in Northern Ireland who meet the criteria still do not have the same guaranteed…
Extension of Sitting on Monday 21 September 2026 under Standing Order 10(3A) That in accordance with Standing Order 10(3A), the sitting on Monday 21 September 2026 be extended to no later than 10.30pm.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any mental health datasets that are currently available to (a) his Department; and (b) the Strategic Planning and Performance Group through encompass, including data relating to referrals, numbers waiting, waiting times, assessments, appointments, activity, discharges,…
To ask the Minister of Health whether there are any plans to establish a routinely updated, publicly accessible mental health data dashboard or publication providing validated regional and Health and Social Care Trust-level information on mental health service demand, activity, waiting times and performance.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether any previously reported issues relating to confidence, validation, completeness and data quality of mental health information following the implementation of encompass have been fully resolved in all Health and Social Care Trusts; and (ii) whether any assessment has been made…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of diagnostic scans carried out by Health and Social Care Trusts (HSCT) that have been digitally transferred to radiologists outside Northern Ireland, including in Australia and New Zealand, for reporting, in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) HSCT;…
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the number of times that Bryansford Village has (i) been confirmed for resurfacing; and (ii) had resurfacing works carried out, in each of the last five years.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to detail any public consultation engagement planned as part of the Clean Air Strategy.
To ask the Minister of Justice to outline any action her Department is taking to reduce case processing times for children and young people in the youth justice system.
To ask the Minister of Education, pursuant to AQO 3919/22-27, to detail (i) the outcome of the report; (ii) its recommendations; and (iii) whether it has addressed the issues raised by the College.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to his statement to the Mourne Observer on 16 September 2026, to detail (i) any funding allocation has been made for the Fishing and Seafood Development Programme; and (ii) whether this is dependent on a budget being agreed.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to his statement to the Mourne Observer on 16 September 2026, to detail any funding allocation that has been made for (i) Ardglass; (ii) Kilkeel; and (iii) Portavogie.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, pursuant to his statement to the Mourne Observer on 16 September 2026, to detail the advanced stage which the review of the Fishing and Seafood Development Programme is at.