Debate contribution: Daisy Hill Hospital: Inpatient Maternity Services
Debate contribution by Mr Colin McGrath on .
- MLA
- Mr Colin McGrath
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Ministerial Statement
- Heading
- Daisy Hill Hospital: Inpatient Maternity Services
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742385
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Text
Once again, a vital service is being threatened with removal from a rural community, not as part of an ambitious plan for transformation but after years of warnings about staffing pressures and the Department's failure to address them.
The Executive have had two and a half years to deliver the transformation they promised, yet services continue to disappear. Minister, if this is not the transformation that has been promised, do you accept that the Executive and your Department are presiding over the collapse of services in our community?
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