Debate contribution: Western Health and Social Care Trust Vision Plan
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 29 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Western Health and Social Care Trust Vision Plan
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5644813
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Thank you, Mr Speaker. The Western Trust has assured me that it has undertaken a comprehensive early engagement exercise with stakeholders, involving all political parties, local businesses, service users, community groups, the Patient and Client Council (PCC), local media, community planning partners and Departments, including mine and DAERA. The vision process has a clearly defined programme of work and a timetable, with formal engagement now under way. Its purpose is to inform future planning and decision-making. I expect the final report to be published by March 2027. The Member seems to be very cynical about the entire process, but the only viable alternative would have been for me to sit back and allow a badly flawed consultation process to proceed, rather than to intervene, which is what I did. When I say that it was a flawed process, I refer to the fact that only one consultation event was planned for Enniskillen, which is the main town, and that that event was on 13 July, the day after a public holiday. No public engagement was planned for Omagh. I think, therefore, that I was right to intervene. I share the Member's frustration that such a process takes longer in the public sector than it would in the private sector, but, in my opinion, we are following the right path.
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