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Mr Danny Donnelly: Assembly records
All of Mr Danny Donnelly’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
The closure of Extern's community crisis intervention service in Foyle is another symptom of a system that is entrenched in reactive policymaking, lurching from crisis to crisis without ever addressing the deeper issues. The services that Mark mentioned, many of them out of hours, represent many people who have been…
Cervical Screening Scandal Inquiry That this Assembly expresses concern at the lack of transparency, delay and slow pace of the investigations and reviews into both individual patients and the overall cervical screening scandal by the Department of Health and the Southern Health and Social Care Trust; recognises the…
I thank the Minister for her answer. Will she provide an assessment of the impact that budgetary pressures are having on justice system transformation?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail how his Department can support people experiencing homelessness, given the findings of the Simon Community’s October 2025 report Childhood Adversity and Homelessness in Northern Ireland: Breaking the Cycle, which shows that diagnosed mental health conditions are around four…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) whether an assessment has been made of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine's September 2025 press release on excess deaths associated with long waits in Scotland’s Emergency Departments before admission in 2024; and (ii) to detail the number of similarly associated excess deaths…
To ask the Minister of Health, given that the Urgent and Emergency Care Waiting Time Statistics for Northern Ireland (April - June 2025) had over 500 patients waiting over two days in Emergency Departments (ED) for a bed on the ward and that the Royal College of Emergency Medicine has published evidence of the…
To ask the Minister of Health to outline any measures his Department is putting in place to ensure that beds are available for patients who need to be admitted to hospital from Emergency Departments (ED) instead of having to wait in the ED.
To ask the Minister of Health for his Department's assessment of the number of patients currently in hospital whose medical treatment is complete but cannot leave hospital because of a lack of social care capacity.
I thank the Member for giving way. She will be aware that this issue has been raised at joint North/South Health Committee meetings here and down south, at which she spoke very well, and at the North/South Inter-Parliamentary Association, where we had a day's worth of debate about it. There is certainly interest down…
All Members should agree that a winter preparedness plan published on 31 December 2025 is not just slightly delayed but a complete failure, yet, by the Department's own metric, according to the business plan that it presented to the Committee for Health last week, publishing the plan on the very last day of the year…
Thank you, Minister. I am sure that you will agree that workforce retention is at the heart of safe care. Do you accept that the ongoing delay in the winter preparedness plan will have an impact on staff retention levels? Can you commit to when that plan will be published, given that it was promised in August, then…
There is real frustration among healthcare workers, who are left out of pocket again. Will the Minister commit to prioritising pay awards in his budget for 2026-27 to avoid the repeated delays in healthcare workers receiving their money?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail when his Department intends to introduce regular GP health checks as is the case in England, to enhance general health and enable early intervention as part of planning to take pressure off Emergency Departments.
To ask the Minister of Health for his Department’s assessment of the number of excess deaths which arose from excessive waits in Emergency Departments between 1 October and 31 March in: (i) 2022-23; (ii) 2023-24; and (iii) 2024-25.
To ask the Minister of Health to outline what differences will be apparent in this year’s Winter Preparedness Plan compared to that published on 6 November 2024.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the impact of excluding people younger than 65 years old from the commencement of the flu vaccination programme eligible cohort.
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the impact of excluding people younger than 75 years old from the commencement of the flu vaccination programme eligible cohort.
To ask the Minister of Health to outline any representations he has made to the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation on the inclusion of the 50-64 age cohort from the commencement of the winter flu vaccination programme in 2025.