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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.
Minister, your permanent secretary chaired the response to the floods last November on behalf of the Departments. Many businesses are desperately waiting for their £100,000. That is to come from another Department, but are you aware of when it will happen? They are crying out for that scheme to open.
It is about making sure that we drive down those lists by using any opportunity that there is and any weapon at our disposal. People cannot be on waiting lists for any longer than they currently are.
No greater issue has highlighted how sick our health service more than that of the waiting list debacle. The fact that we are raising this issue and discussing it so early after the Assembly's return is therefore welcome. People have been languishing on waiting lists for too long. It is probably too simple to point to…
Strike Action: Junior Doctors To ask the Minister of Health to outline what steps he is taking to prevent the strike action, announced by junior doctors on 19 February 2024.
Committee Membership That Miss Jemma Dolan and Mr Stephen Dunne be appointed as members of the Committee on Standards and Privileges; and that Mr Nick Mathison be appointed as a member of the Audit Committee.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for an update on his Department's approach to the pelvic mesh issue; and (ii) how his Department's approach meets the same timescales as the English model.
Today we are being asked to support a Budget. It is a complicated Budget that covers all areas of finance relating to many Departments and agencies. There are decisions, though, that need to be taken and people who need to be rewarded, not least our hard-working public-sector workers, who have waited too long for…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail how many people work in Health and Social Care services for In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF), in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health how many women will be impacted as a result of recent changes to NHS availability of free fertility treatment for frozen embryo transfers.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Action Plan on Waiting Lists”
Action Plan on Waiting Lists - Amendment 1 Insert after ‘maximise existing capacity’: 'including the immediate reinstatement of the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive;’
To ask the Minister of Health what assessment he has made of the use of (i) lecanemab; and (ii) donanemab in the treatment of dementia for patients in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he plans to lift the moratorium on funding public health awareness-related campaigns, including media advertisements.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he will have discussions with the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, to outline how the £95 million funding package announced as part of the Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Mission will benefit Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister of Justice when she will introduce legislation to address (i) cyberbullying; (ii) online harassment; and (iii) online intimidation.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) how many general practice nurses (GPNs) are employed in each of the Health and Social Care Trusts; and (ii) how many of these GPNs are not employed directly by Health and Social Care Trusts.
To ask the Minister of Health whether his Department will undertake to quantify the totality of the Health and Social Care workforce, including those not directly employed by the Health and Social Care Trusts.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) how patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy will avail of Risdiplam after 31 March 2024; and (ii) how they will be informed of the arrangements for service provison.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of how patients with (i) Spinal Muscular Atrophy; and (ii) Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy can access (a) Spinraza; and (b) Translarna.