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Mrs Linda Dillon: Assembly records
All of Mrs Linda Dillon’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I appreciate the Member's taking an intervention. Does he agree that, like every other Department, the Department of Justice has a responsibility to ensure that it saves money where it can? For almost seven years, I have been raising with the Minister the need to address ill-health retirement and injury-on-duty issues…
Does the Member agree that that same British Government care little for their own constituents — the people who actually elect them — so there is absolutely no chance that they will be concerned about the issues that are of concern to the people here in the North, who do not elect them?
Does the Minister agree that, when sexual abuse was reported to the RUC in the case of the Kincora boys' home, it was not properly investigated? How can people have faith and confidence in a service that allowed paedophiles to be embedded in a home for young boys?
I begin by acknowledging the harm and trauma that was endured by all those who have suffered sexual violence, whether that was during the conflict or outside of it. Without exception, it was wrong, cruel and should not have happened. Crimes of rape, child sexual abuse, sexualised assault and many other intimate…
On the back of the previous question, to which, I believe, the Minister answered that he would go out next week with those organisations, will he go out to meet the people who are homeless — people who come from our communities and are somebody's child, somebody's mother, somebody's brother — to get a better…
Proactive Testing and Diagnosis of Genetic Haemochromatosis That this Assembly welcomes the new Haemochromatosis UK screening initiative and commends the work of patients and clinicians in raising awareness of this common inherited condition, often known as the Celtic Disease; notes that genetic haemochromatosis can…
I thank the Member for taking an intervention. We have mentioned the PSNI and the justice system. I understand the point that may have been made earlier about capturing data, and if it is the PSNI intervening, it is not captured. It actually is captured but just at the wrong point because the PSNI will probably end up…
As has been said, the object of the motion is not an abstract debate about data, systems or IT infrastructure. It is about whether the Assembly and the Minister's Department are serious about improving mental health services or whether we are content to continue to make policy in a vacuum without reliable data. I…
It works both ways. You need to be conscious of that. While Members in the Chamber cry about a billboard, there are people at home who are in genuine and real strife around the cost of living. That is what we need to address in the Chamber. I think that some of the leaders of other parties said that that was what they…
Do you agree that, while some people in the Chamber are obsessed with billboards — I could raise the issue of many a billboard, I assure you, that is up in mid-Ulster and many a poster —
I appreciate the Minister's taking a brief intervention, particularly given the time that he has left. Following on from Mr McGlone's point about access, we do not expect to have every service in every hospital, but we expect that people can access them. We need to address the ambulance issue if we are not going to…
Does the Member agree that people in the South of Ireland in the Twenty-six Counties are able to avail themselves of a 24/7 service? While it is in only Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and Cork University Hospital and you would certainly like to see more access, maybe the Minister could enlighten us on whether…
Does the Member agree that the benefits are not just in health but in the fact that Clodagh has been able to return to her job. She works in public service and has been successful in her job. It is an extremely important issue, as there are economic benefits around ensuring that people get access to a 24/7…
I agree with the Minister's last comments. Those who need to get injury-on-duty and ill-health retirement should absolutely be able to do so. However, there are, clearly, many people who are taking advantage of the unique circumstances and legislation around ill-health retirement and injury-on-duty retirement for PSNI…
On a point of order, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Will the Speaker please rule on whether it is in order for personal attacks to be made on an independent commissioner in this place? I think that it is entirely out of order, but I would like a ruling on that.
Thank you very much for giving way. Do you agree that it is one thing to criticise the report but an entirely different thing to personally attack the previous commissioner or any independent commissioner, for that matter, because that entirely undermines the standards process and the standards themselves. I should be…