Independent site. Not an official website of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Find out more
MLA Culture Wars

Analysis in progress – figures are incomplete

8,847 of 97,616 records that can be analysed have been assessed so far (9.1%); 87,449 are waiting for analysis and 1,320 failed and will be retried. Totals and rankings will change as the remaining records are processed, so they do not yet represent the full mandate. How much has been processed

Mr Robbie Butler: Assembly records

All of Mr Robbie Butler’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.

931 records match.

  1. Debate contribution: Oakridge Social Education Centre, Dungannon.

    • Adjournment
    • As a minister

    Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank the Member for tabling this important Adjournment topic. I hope that, after over 10 years in this place, I have some reputation for having a passion not just for people with learning disabilities but for equitable provision and access to services for anybody who has a learning…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  2. Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: Management

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for her question. The failure to meet some people's basic needs and address the pressures that they are facing is absolutely regrettable. Anybody who is on a waiting list for an indeterminate amount of time will come to other harm; there is absolutely no doubt about that. We are making progress, and…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  3. Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: Management

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Minister —. I am elevating you before you retire. I thank the Member for her question. I am sorry that I was a little bit distracted; I thought that it was the Minister who had been told off. With regard to the Member's question, I absolutely remain agile and interested in that aspect. If you are content…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  4. Debate contribution: Encompass: Costs

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. He is absolutely right to ask it. At this moment, absolutely nothing is at risk. The roll-out of Encompass is being done within the existing envelope. There is nothing at risk with regard to that. I have a day-1 brief concern that, I am sure, many of you will recognise, and it is a…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  5. Debate contribution: Encompass: Costs

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I have too many pages in this folder. The figure of £20 million represents not a sudden or unexplained overspend on Encompass but an increase of approximately £19·9 million between the original in-year capital requirement and the programme's latest forecast. The largest element is approximately £10 million arising…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  6. Debate contribution: Neurology Services: Review Recommendations

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. I should have declared an interest at the start as a former member of the all-party group on neurology. The Member's question is one that has been written, emailed and messaged to me from people whom I know. It is really important that we get off on the right foot on that. I…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  7. Debate contribution: Neurology Services: Review Recommendations

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. We recently announced £2·3 million of funding for that, which is not a significant amount of money given what we commit at the minute. The review team has been working at pace to do what it can with that pot of money. We have an idea of what the full cost would be over a number of…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  8. Debate contribution: Executive Collapse: Health Services

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his point. It is a point that I have made many times regardless of the portfolio that I have held. It is inarguable that political dysfunction and not being financed appropriately is a recipe for disaster. Last week, we had Professor Bengoa with us. While, in public and private conversations,…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  9. Debate contribution: Executive Collapse: Health Services

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. I spent the weekend feeling genuinely concerned about the future of this place and about the ramifications of, shall we say, a staged walkout or if Stormont were to cease. The evidence shows us that, when we do not have Stormont for two or three years and we have compromised…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  10. Debate contribution: Cancer: Mid-Ulster

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. I assure him that the Department takes concerns regarding suspected cancer clusters very seriously and recognises the impact they can have on local communities. There is no higher priority than ensuring that any potential public health risk is properly investigated and addressed.…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  11. Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Pay Awards

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I absolutely agree. Thank you for your question and for the manner in which you put it. My 10 years of working in this place have been incredibly frustrating. What I do know is that, when parties in this place have been pressurised into finding agreement, it has been on the back of the pressure felt by Health and…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  12. Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Pay Awards

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member. He has been here only a short time, but he has managed to weave an incredible supplementary question into this topic. I am very alive to the issue. It is something that I have been contacted about not just because I am the Health Minister but because people understand my acute interest in the space…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  13. Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Pay Awards

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for her question. Whilst everybody in the health service regardless of their clinical practice, whether they are a band 5, a band 6, a band 7, a band 8, a consultant, a doctor or a dentist, deserves to be fairly remunerated, for me, one of the most important issues to address is the real living wage…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  14. Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Pay Awards

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    That is without doubt. I sat with colleagues last week in my fourth Executive meeting, and I will be fair to my Executive colleagues: it was the number-one item on the table. Whilst I agree — we all agree — that it is the first priority, addressing it comes with complexity, and bringing down the Assembly would mean…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  15. Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Pay Awards

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. Regrettably, Executive approval has not yet been secured. Approval should, of course, be accompanied by sufficient recurrent funding to assure affordability in this year and future years. I emphasise to Executive and Assembly colleagues as well as the UK Government the increasing…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  16. Debate contribution: Causeway Hospital: Emergency General Surgery

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. I will respond in two parts, if he does not mind. The temporary suspension of emergency general surgery at the South West Acute Hospital remains in place. It is important that people know that the suspension is temporary. The Western Health and Social Care Trust is developing a…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  17. Debate contribution: Causeway Hospital: Emergency General Surgery

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I really do thank the Member for her question, because it gives me the chance to address something that was maybe misconstrued. There has been no pause on any network reconfiguration. What has been paused is how we name services and what we call them. It is literally a pressure that I identified when I talked to…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  18. Debate contribution: Causeway Hospital: Emergency General Surgery

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question, and his passion for his local area and its hospital. I am not going to say yes or no to his question, even though it is a fair question. I have been Health Minister for just over six weeks, and I have had the pleasure of meeting each of the health trust leads and their senior…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  19. Debate contribution: Causeway Hospital: Emergency General Surgery

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. I understand the ongoing concern in relation to the provision of emergency general surgery at the Causeway Hospital and the potential impact on other acute services as a result of any change. However, let me be abundantly clear; any decision on a permanent change to a Health and…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  20. Debate contribution: HSC Dentistry: East Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for her question and the way in which she put it. There are multiple crises across the health and social care system. The review will give us a platform to engage proactively with all stakeholders. As I have said many times, the stakeholders — in this case, our dentists and the BDA — are central to…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  21. Debate contribution: HSC Dentistry: East Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his supplementary question. There are workforce pressures throughout the health and social care system, and dentistry suffers from that same pressure. Opening up places requires resource, but we have no shortage of people who are willing to take up those posts. Extra funding was allocated in…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  22. Debate contribution: HSC Dentistry: East Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for her question. I can comfortably say that that formed the biggest part of my conversation with departmental officials and my analysis of the risks that we still face. I see access to NHS dentistry as a goal that we should all try to attain. As the Member rightly pointed out, across the health…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  23. Debate contribution: HSC Dentistry: East Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for his question. As with every challenge that I face in Health, it is really important that we establish the voice of the service user and of the clinicians who provide the service — in this case, our dentists. Therefore, engagement will be absolutely key. There will be early engagement with the…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  24. Debate contribution: HSC Dentistry: East Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Member for her question. There are a lot of things to consider in this regard. I do not like the position in which we find ourselves regarding dental waiting lists and access to dentists, but I do not think that there has been inaction for 10 years. We are in that position because we have been underfunded…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  25. Debate contribution: HSC Dentistry: East Antrim

    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for her question. Access to general dental services remains a priority for me. Although the most recent dental statistics show a continued decline in patient registration across Northern Ireland, the rate of decline has reduced substantially compared with the previous year. In East Antrim…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

Download all records matching these filters (up to 100,000 rows): CSV · JSON