Debate contribution: Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry Final Report
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 22 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Ministerial Statement
- Heading
- Muckamore Abbey Hospital Inquiry Final Report
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5637821
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That very issue is a focus for me, and it begins later today when I will meet the chair and the chief executive of the Belfast Trust. I am not interested in letting anybody off the hook. I am absolutely convinced about the guilt here and about the evil that was perpetrated. It was not simply about nurses wandering around the hospital site but about oversight. I have said it before that the board was not curious enough. It was satisfied when it was told that a process was in place. It should, however, have gone on to say, "Yes, but what is it achieving?". How many instances were there of peer-on-peer abuse? How many instances were there of abuse by patients against staff and vice versa? All those things need to be analysed. Why were they not analysed? What was the motivation behind management's not analysing them? I want to know all those things, and then I will come to conclusions.
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