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, pursuant to AQW 38169/22-27, to detail the initial date, and any subsequent dates, on which the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has advised that the water is not to be considered potable.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 38169/22-27, to detail any guidance that sets out that not drinking the mains water would be consistent with the commissioning of a new hospital building.
To ask the Minister of Justice whether she has assessed the need for legislation to provide effective sanctions, including tougher sentences, on people who glorify terrorism, terrorists and criminal acts.
I beg to move Thank you. Minister, National Health Service dentistry faces an existential threat. Northern Ireland has seen the most rapid decline of health service dentistry anywhere in the United Kingdom. Registration with an NHS dentist has plummeted to the lowest level in a generation. It has dropped by 17% over…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 38169/22-27, to detail any issues and conditions that have arisen to render the water in the new Maternity Hospital in Belfast non-potable.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 38169/22-27, to detail (i) whether the water was potable prior to the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust accepting handover of the building; (ii) any tests which were carried to demonstrate this; and (iii) the dates on which they occurred.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 38169/22-27, to detail any other healthcare buildings he is aware of in (i) Northern Ireland; (ii) the rest of the UK; and (iii) further afield, not to have drinking water acceptable for use prior to occupation.
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 38169/22-27, to detail on what basis the water has been deemed not-potable, including the relevant tests which have indicated this and the dates on which they occurred.
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on the work of (i) Hydrop; (ii) Andersen Caledonia; and (iii) Porton Down, in independently reviewing the decision by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to accept handover of the new Maternity Hospital in Belfast.
Thank you, Minister, for giving way. Mr Donnelly actually covered the point that I was going to make. It makes no sense not to spend £5 million when we will spend many, many millions more on lifetimes of disability and the services etc that will be required for people who cannot avail themselves of a 24/7 thrombectomy…
Thank you to the Minister for his remarks on the Bill. Minister, you explained that the deferral in the Bill is due to the precarious position of Health Department finances. I do not think that any of us is going to argue with that, particularly those who sit on the Health Committee week in and week out and hear of so…
Minister, this is a catastrophic situation for our community in Northern Ireland. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine indicates that the number of people attending ED has been relatively static since 2016, yet the number of patients who waited 12 hours or longer was 26 times greater in 2025 than it was in 2016 —…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 28057/22-27, to detail (i) the rationale as to why Hydrop are no longer involved in the independent review into the water systems in the new Maternity Hospital in Belfast; (ii) when this decision was taken; (iii) any decision- making process used; (iv) anyone who provided…
To ask the Minister of Health, pursuant to AQW 28058/22-27, to detail any reason why the review by independent experts or publication of its report would need to be suspended until installation and validation of the remediated water systems is complete.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any funding for (i) additional bed capacity; and (ii) site redevelopment at Craigavon Area Hospital, (a) provided by his Department in 2025-26; (b) planned for 2026-27; and (c) planned for subsequent years.
To ask the Minister of Health whether any (i) assessment has been made of the effectiveness and reliability of the critical power supply at the new Maternity Hospital; and (ii) issues have emerged or been raised, in the last six months.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any insect infestations reported, in the last six months, at the Acute Mental Health Inpatient Centre in Belfast.
To ask the Minister of Health whether acceptance of handover of the new Regional Maternity Hospital by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in March 2024 was full and final or whether at that point it still remained subject to some caveats, such as closeout of snags.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the levels of (i) hydrogen peroxide; (ii) chlorine dioxide; (iii) heavy metals; and (iv) microplastics, in the water supply at the new Regional Maternity Hospital in Belfast (a) as reported by D & F Engineering Services in November 2025; and (b) at each occasion subsequently…
To ask the Minister of Health whether the same specific strain of Pseudomonas has been detected in the new Regional Maternity Hospital in Belfast in (i) February 2023; (ii) April 2024, and to detail the most recent occasion it was detected.
Tackling Barriers to Accessing an NHS Dentist That this Assembly expresses alarm that the percentage of the population not registered with a National Health Service (NHS) dentist in Northern Ireland has increased significantly over the last ten years, with only 50 per cent of adults now registered; is concerned that…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of individuals who have been interviewed for the post of Chair of Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, since the removal of the previous Chair in July 2025.