Debate contribution: Facial Palsy
Debate contribution by Mrs Diane Dodds on .
- MLA
- Mrs Diane Dodds
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Facial Palsy
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742229
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Minister, I have constituents who come to me with this very perplexing problem. Many of them have to pay for their own injections to relieve their facial palsy symptoms. That is extremely taxing on those individuals. You spoke about funding that had been allocated by the South Eastern Trust for the treatment of facial palsy through the waiting list initiative. Many, however, question whether that is being directed specifically at facial palsy or has been subsumed into the wider specialities in plastic surgery —
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