Debate contribution: Autism Assessments: Waiting Times
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
- Autism Assessments: Waiting Times
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5644851
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That is one of the intents of the Committee in Common. As the Member will know, the trusts were, in effect, set up under a sort of Thatcherite model of competition driving down price. That does not work for me. If I could start with a blank page or click my fingers, we would not have five geographically based trusts. We would have a geriatric trust, a paediatric trust and a mental health trust. That would be the best way to achieve regional consistency in service delivery and get rid of the postcode lottery. That will not happen, because such reorganisation would be so massive that it would slow down delivery at a time when we need to speed it up. The Committee in Common exists to perform the function of bringing those five geographically limited trusts together and asking, "Where is best practice, and how do we turn that into common practice?" so that we achieve what the Member refers to.
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