Debate contribution: Independent Reconfiguration Committee
Debate contribution by Mr Colin McGrath on .
- MLA
- Mr Colin McGrath
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Question for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- Independent Reconfiguration Committee
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5670129
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I welcome the Minister to his new role. We arrived in this place on the same day, and I wish him well as he progresses to the role of Health Minister. I also record our thanks to his predecessor, Mike Nesbitt, for his work in the Department. That was the nice bit. Minister, your statement last week generated a lot of media headlines. It might have been better for you to wait for two working days and then come here and make a ministerial statement on which we could have had a much fuller discussion and interpretation. Given that we can see that this could mean Bengoa being paused and decisions on the Causeway Hospital and South West Acute Hospital being paused and given that it looks back at the issues at the Downe and Daisy Hill and says that they may not have been the right decisions —.
I certainly will. I will respond to the Minister's four-minute answer by asking whether it is possible that he will refer any of those — the issue of the emergency service at the South West Acute Hospital or the issues at the Causeway, Daisy Hill or the Downe — to the new committee?
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