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Mr Mike Nesbitt: Assembly records
All of Mr Mike Nesbitt’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I thank the Member for pointing out that there are families in the Gallery: I was unaware of that. I have said that I want to meet them, hopefully this week. If they have time after the session, I would like to come up, say hello and start that conversation. Yes, there are people working in HSC who lived through the…
I am unaware of the statement and very much regret that it has not landed well with the people — the group — to whom the Member refers. When it comes to ensuring that it never happens again, I think that Mr Kark has tried to give us the road map with those 106 recommendations. We will not take six months to decide…
I very much agree with a lot of the sentiment that the Member has expressed. It should not have happened. I think that we all agree that families should have been listened to. I also think that we all agree that the Department of Health, the Belfast Trust or any other trust, the Regulation and Quality Improvement…
I begin with an unconditional apology for the evil that was perpetrated in Muckamore Abbey Hospital, as confirmed by the inquiry report, which was published last week, on 18 June. I thank the leader of the Opposition. Today is Opposition day, and, when I asked him whether he would make way for the statement, he agreed…
All trusts have fora for engagement with staff. All trusts recognise the relevant trade unions, which are another channel for expressing concerns or discussing how we might better support all staff and not just international colleagues, although it is clear that international colleagues have concerns at this time. I…
I thank the Member. That was a very difficult intervention but a very important one because it proves something that is absolutely fundamental, which is that all healthcare is personal. It is as personal as it gets. They have done wonders for you. I get really fed up when people say that the health and social care…
Yes. Staff at the Ballyclare advice centre said that they were the target of misinformation. Somebody asked them, "Are you sheltering boat people?". Misinformation has always existed. The Nazis specialised in misinformation, but they did not have social media. This the problem with the modern world. There is an old…
I expect risk assessments to be done on a case-by-case basis. I am aware of one care home — I do not want to identify it — where the workforce is 85% international colleagues. They were extremely worried, and there was a question about whether that would impact on service delivery in that home. On Tuesday night, I…
I do not have those statistics to hand. It is hard to measure in a statistical way the impact on morale, on people feeling safe or on the number of our international colleagues who now feel that the situation has become so dire that they are no longer prepared to stay with us. I tell them that they are welcome, that…
I thank the Member for his question and for the interest that he has shown. I was in the Mater Hospital last week, where I heard a number of horrendous stories. I will not share them with the House, because the narratives would identify specific nurses and put them back at risk of injury or abuse. I heard, however, of…
The appalling events of last week — I include those on Monday night — have left a mark on healthcare staff, particularly our international colleagues, some of whom have endured horrendous experiences. As I have stated many times, not only do we benefit from our international colleagues, but some staff groups depend on…
I had to reduce those delays. As the Member knows, the protocol was implemented on 27 April. She has identified the downside of it. As we have discussed already in Question Time, it is not just about what happens at the front door but about the whole flow through the hospital and out the back door and into the…
I am not sure that I agree, but I will certainly look into that. Common sense should apply, and I am not sure that we are comparing like with like when it comes to reading a biblical passage, one to one, to a patient in hospital and what happened out on the streets.
If I am asked to issue guidance, I certainly shall. I was not aware that there was any uncertainty until the Member spoke just then. Perhaps he could elaborate on that, and that will inform a decision on whether we go with renewed or fresh guidance.
GP federations are not health and social care bodies. Pharmacists in the GP federations are employed by the GP federations, so it is up to the federations to determine their pay and conditions. We have no locus there, but we did provide an uplift for staff costs to federations in respect of their pharmacists on the…
I do not accept that. I am trying to remember. As we know, the Southern Trust did not follow the standard procedure of one full review and one quick review. It went for two full reviews. Of course, the trust did that with the best of intentions, but it meant that we could not benchmark against other services, and that…
The focus that I inherited was entirely on the Southern Trust, so that is why we pursued that to its conclusion. Well, it may not be the conclusion; obviously, the Ladies with Letters and others are considering potential next steps, and that is, of course, their right. I am aware that there are women in the Western…
It says two things to me. First, it speaks to the confidence that the National Lottery has in the Together for Families project, because that £30 million is an unprecedented investment in a project of that scale in Northern Ireland. Even if the funding had been only £1 million, I am convinced that the National Lottery…
The funding is absolutely transformational, and it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to switch how we intervene for families with young people who have real issues. It is an opportunity to keep them out of care and get away from reactive, statutory interventions to early, community-based support. That is entirely…
What I will not do is encourage the Member to speak to his colleague, because I know that the Minister of Finance wants to bring forward budgets for resource and capital spending. I cannot make a commitment without a capital budget, however. I need to know what my budget will be, after which I will have to look at the…
I do not carry that level of detail or set of statistics in my head, and I do not have them on file. I am more than happy to get back to the Member on it. The Executive or, more likely, the next Executive will need to do a lot of work in that area and legislate to make life better for those who need those services.
I will check. I am not sure that I signed off on it; it is not striking a bell with me. The arm's-length bodies have certain autonomy. As the Member said, it was the Public Health Agency that posted it. I will certainly check and write to the member.
I take a rather practical view of the use of banned or illegal substances: they have been with us for a long time and will be with us for a long time to come. I know that some people, including those in the Member's party, say that the only acceptable message is, "Do not take illegal drugs". That position is perfectly…
I have no vires over the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, but I would ask that people respect the role of firefighters in the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service and accept that, at times, they put themselves in harm's way physically and mentally to keep the public safe. I would therefore…