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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.
Minister, you talked about the domiciliary care packages, and I appreciate the challenges that we have with them, but I raised with your officials at the Health Committee the week before last the need for a review of direct payments. We need to see a different process for direct payments. The process does not work. It…
I thank the Minister for her answer. Does she agree that the Manufacturing and Engineering, Growth and Advancement (MEGA) Group Mid Ulster, which is a cluster of engineering companies in the mid-Ulster area, is one of the best local examples of clustering? Does she agree that that is exactly why we need to listen to…
First Minister, I know that you have previously acknowledged that every death during the conflict years left a deep legacy of suffering and trauma. Given the deep suffering and trauma carried by so many families and victims across our society and beyond, how can we ensure that, in the Chamber, there is less petty…
Mrs Dillon asked the Minister for the Economy, after thanking her for her answers so far given the difficulty that she is having today, to give the Assembly some detail on last week's InterTradeIreland/TCI Network conference.
To ask the Minister of Health to outline the actions his Department is taking to ensure that patients requiring regular cancer treatment are able to access ambulance transport between different Health and Social Trust areas.
Does the Member agree that, although she has said that children cannot take care of themselves and thus rely on other people to take care of them, many children are, in fact, carers for their parents? We therefore need to ensure that those children are looked after in any strategy.
I thank the Minister for his answer. I am aware from his response to the debate that he is very understanding of the issue. He said that he would like to do something to ensure that people who are diagnosed with a terminal illness get early access to their pensions. What response was there from the British Treasury?…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any immediate action which will be taken in relation to patients being denied ambulance transport for regular cancer treatment due to Health and Social Care Trust boundaries.
To ask the Minister of Health whether he is considering further reducing or removing the current 52-week waiting list requirement for patients to qualify for reimbursement under the Waiting List Reimbursement Scheme.
Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I thank everyone who contributed to the debate on the motion today. One of the sad things that we are saying is that women and babies are still being failed on this island. In 2025, mothers are still forcibly separated from their babies, and I do not say that for the shock…
I appreciate the Minister's taking an intervention. You mentioned Baby Loss Awareness Week, which begins on Thursday. Will the legislation provide for backdating to ensure that mothers and families who lost babies in the past are able to get a baby loss certificate? Will that be at least considered as part of the…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether any progress has been made on plans to allow early access to pensions for those who have a terminal illness diagnosis.
I thank the Minister for taking an intervention, because this is an important point. Can we ensure that, when the work is being carried out, there is no continuation of the treatments that are being given that just mask symptoms? We would never say to somebody with cancer, "Take painkillers and hope that you get…
I beg to move Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-LeasCheann Comhairle. I propose the motion and accept the amendment that our Alliance colleagues have tabled. I must be honest and say that the issue makes me really angry. I am angry on behalf of the many women and girls who have been disbelieved about their real and…
I thank the Member across the way for asking the question. Minister, do you agree that the transition process at whatever stage, whether it is going to primary school from nursery school or to secondary school, is really traumatic for parents, because it is so poorly managed? Have you had any conversations with the…
I thank the Minister for his answer. I agree that working collaboratively and constructively is exactly the way to go. Having spoken to some farmers, I think that they feel that they are now being listened to, so I appreciate that. Will you confirm whether there has been a formal meeting of the nutrients action…
I thank the Member for taking an intervention. Does he agree that, as well as not being disciplined or excluded, no child should be humiliated? If there is concern about a child's uniform, it is easy for a teacher to have a simple conversation with that child before or after class and not to humiliate them in front of…
I thank the Member for taking an intervention. Will the Member agree that responsibility for the Stormont House Agreement and introducing the legislation lay with the British Government? They agreed to do it in March 2017 and in October 2017. They said then that it would be 2018. The British Government failed to…
It will be very brief. Does the Member agree that the Brown family did not seek an inquiry but tried every other process, and that the legal process told them that the only way in which they could get the truth was through a public inquiry?