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Mrs Diane Dodds: Assembly records
All of Mrs Diane Dodds’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of hospital beds that are (a) funded; and (b) currently open; and (ii) the maximum number that have been open this winter, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
I thank the Member for taking an intervention. Funding is very important. However, 75% of PEACE PLUS funding, amounting to more than £730 million, came from the UK Government, and only a very small amount came from either Europe or Ireland.
It is really important to state — I know that the Member will agree with me — that, during the Brexit negotiations, when things were getting tough for the Irish Ministers involved, we had the spectacle of Leo Varadkar's talking about bombs at customs posts, should the EU acquiesce to anything other than what the Irish…
I thank the Member for giving way. He makes an interesting point about the unstable environment in which we find ourselves, and it is particularly so. It is, however, hard to have common defence if the incoming leadership of the European Union remains neutral and is not prepared to have a defence force to defend…
Minister, the one thing that I found encouraging from your statement was that the £5 million will be recurrent funding. However, research from Cancer Research UK tells us that, in general, Northern Ireland has the longest cancer waiting lists and the poorest outcomes of anywhere in the United Kingdom. That is a moral…
To ask the Minister of Health whether the presence of chemicals in the water at the new Maternity Hospital in Belfast was detailed in the preliminary independent report late last year into water quality.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the overall (i) management; and (ii) administration costs, in (a) his Department; and (b) each of its arm’s-length bodies, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail each investigation into the new Maternity Hospital in Belfast which has been instigated by (i) the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) his Department, from 2024, including the current status of each.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of senior executives who are in receipt of a basic salary in excess of (a) £100,000; (b) £200,000; and (c) £248,500; and (ii) any projections of how these figures will have changed by 2026-27.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the number of individuals who received management allowances for additional duties in (a) his Department; and (b) its arm's-length bodies; and (ii) the resultant costs, in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) any actions to be taken; and (ii) the associated costs, which would be required in order for Northern Ireland to be considered for inclusion in the PATHWAYS research programme.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of senior executives who will have been eligible by 2027 to benefit from the new pay structure which he approved in 2025.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the overall expenditure on senior executive pay, in each of the last five years; and (ii) the projected expenditure for each year up to 2026-27.
I add our support for the LCM on the Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill. Like many in the House, I am concerned about the short time frame and the fact that we had so little time to look at the Bill in Committee. I understand that it was introduced and went through all its stages in the House of Commons in one day…
I thank the Minister for allowing me to intervene. It is a really serious issue, and I will make very serious points about it. We are talking about a maternity hospital that is costing double what it was anticipated to cost and could now, potentially, be four and a half years late in its delivery. That is unacceptable…
I do not know how long I will take, but I will certainly not wander into the Celtic mists of everything being fine with the health service in the Republic, where you have to pay to see the GP. As health spokesperson for the DUP, I will spend my time talking about the Health budget and the position in which we find…
Thank you, Minister. It is my understanding that our national Government — the UK Government — have amassed a £10 million fund for a defence growth deal for Northern Ireland. What specific engagement have you had with the Secretary of State for Defence in order to ensure that investment and jobs are provided in that…
Children in the United Kingdom are safer this Monday afternoon since the UK medicine authority expressed concern about the long-term impact of puberty blockers and paused the King's College trial. Let us remind ourselves who those children are in Northern Ireland. Hilary Cass describes them as vulnerable young people…
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To ask the Minister of Health to detail any representations he has made that would lead to children from Northern Ireland being included in puberty blocker trials.