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 5637861
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Having thanked the leader of the Opposition for making this possible, I now wonder for how long he has sat on that information, rather than bringing it to me. However, we will have that conversation. I will assure myself as best I can about the quality of resettlement and, more broadly, about whether abuse is happening. I have to ask, when you think about 75,000-plus people delivering health and social care daily, is it possible that physical, psychological or mental abuse, not on the scale of Muckamore Abbey, is happening? Human nature dictates that that is highly possible, so we have to keep working and working at the system and at the culture. It is not about structures. As Rafael Bengoa said, it is about systems, not structures. It is about the systems and the culture that is embedded in people who deliver health and social care. Am I concerned that an isolated incident of abuse could be happening as we speak? Of course I am. Can you guarantee that it will never happen? No, you cannot. Can you pledge to do everything that you can to prevent it and to stop it when it happens? Yes.
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