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Mr Philip McGuigan: Assembly records
All of Mr Philip McGuigan’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Yes. Some healthcare workers are disappointed that they have not been offered the COVID vaccine, as their counterparts in the South have, which could impact on days off due to sickness. Minister, will you address those three issues, which will help to improve morale in our health workforce?
Minister, the success of any healthcare plan, particularly one such as this on winter preparedness, depends a lot on the workers in our healthcare system. As you know, morale in some sectors is low. Nurses and other healthcare staff are waiting for a pay uplift. The living wage that was promised in January to…
I welcome the Minister's response and the fact that her priority is to see no interruption to services. Will she give her assessment of the impact of Go Succeed to date?
I completely concur that what has happened is inhumane. Further to the First Minister's touching on a glimmer of hope that needs to be built on, does she agree that the impetus for a lasting peace must be grasped?
Mr McGuigan asked the First Minister and deputy First Minister, after welcoming the fact that the First Minister has been a positive and constant advocate for an end to the genocide in Gaza, whether she will join the call for immediate, massive and unfettered humanitarian aid to save the starving and beleaguered…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Reducing the Level of Unpaid Rates”
Reducing the Level of Unpaid Rates - Amendment 1 Leave out all after 'August 2025;' and insert: ‘notes that the majority of rates are paid on time; further notes the work being carried out by Land and Property Services to provide flexibility to those who are struggling to pay their rates by offering flexible payment…
Each year, 1,000 women develop a severe postnatal illness. It is estimated that around 35 women across the North experience postpartum psychosis: a severe, frightening and potentially life-threatening mental health emergency that devastates those women and their families. With the right treatment and support, women…
I echo the Minister's comment that it must be a priority that our healthcare workers get their pay. Further to the issue of nurses and doctors, Minister, in January, you stated that you would ensure that social care workers received a real living wage, and I think that the deadline for that was September. When will…
Last week, Cycling Ireland sent a team of 20 junior and under-23 riders to France for the European Road Cycling Championships. They all represented themselves and this nation exceptionally well. I put on record special congratulations to Conor Murphy, who won silver in the junior time-trial event; David Gaffney, who…
I completely welcome your last commentary, Minister, and the fact that you and the Health Minister are working together to, as you say, successfully resolve the issue for health workers. How have you, as Finance Minister, worked to ensure priority for the Health budget in the Executive?
Publication of the Joint Census That this Assembly welcomes the Ireland and Northern Ireland: A joint census publication 2021-22 which provides analysis across a range of topics in areas such as demographics, households, religion, ethnicity, place of birth, health, economic status, education, and housing; notes that…
It is estimated that endometriosis affects one in 10 women and girls, which is higher than the number affected by diabetes. I know that everybody has used that statistic in their contribution. I was going to take it out of mine, but it does no harm to reiterate how common the condition is in women and girls across the…
To ask the Minister of Education to detail any support his Department is providing for the amalgamation of North Coast Integrated College, Dunluce School and Coleraine College, on to a single site.
To ask the Minister of Education whether he can provide any assurances that pupils attending the new Causeway Academy will have their school transport needs met.
Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Our health service is the most vital of our public services. It relies heavily on its greatest asset: its staff. The safety of staff and patients alike is compromised as a result of staff shortages. There is a huge hole in our health and social care services as a result of…
Before I get to the specific subject of the motion, it is important that we consider the broader context of how cancer care is being delivered in the North. The cancer strategy that was published in 2022 set out a vision for transforming outcomes, improving access and embedding person-centred care, yet, nearly three…
Minister, you said that the issue arose when the trust was initiating an update to its IT system. I am not an IT expert, but I imagine that that might be a fairly regular occurrence, not just in the Southern Trust but across the trusts. You talked a wee bit about lessons to be learned by other trusts: is there concern…
Obviously, my question was a wee bit outdated, given the Minister's statement this morning. Nonetheless, I welcome progress. Even though this may have been covered, Minister, when might a replacement scheme be in place, and how much annually managed expenditure (AME) funding will be available for it?
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people on a waiting list for occupational therapy appointments, broken down by (i) Health and Social Care Trust; and (ii) length of time on the waiting list.
Ar dtús báire, ba mhaith liom mo thacaíocht, mo dhlúthpháirtíocht agus mo bhuíochas a chur in iúl do na teaghlaigh agus na daoine sin a thaistil go hÉirinn chun cur lenár sochaí agus iadsan a chuireann fúthu anseo. Níl an ciníochas ná an seicteachas inleithscéil agus níl aon chúis leo inár sochaí. Leithscéal ná cúis…
Drug Testing Schemes That this Assembly recognises the role of harm reduction initiatives in preventing drug-related deaths at festivals and concerts; acknowledges that the Health Service Executive’s rapid drug checking schemes have operated successfully at events such as Electric Picnic for a number of years,…
Minister, I met the North's Royal College of Psychologists (RCPsych) here last week, and we had a very useful discussion about some of the problems, such as retention, recruitment and the lack of a permanent increase in the number of psychiatry training places here since 2007, all of which lead to unsafe staffing…