Debate contribution: HSC Dentistry: East Antrim
Debate contribution by Mr Robbie Butler on .
- MLA
- Mr Robbie Butler
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 12 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- HSC Dentistry: East Antrim
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5786286
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I thank the Member for her question and the way in which she put it. There are multiple crises across the health and social care system. The review will give us a platform to engage proactively with all stakeholders. As I have said many times, the stakeholders — in this case, our dentists and the BDA — are central to the solutions that need to be found. As the Minister of Health, however, I am absolutely committed to ensuring that service users are central to any transformation and development of service provision. That door needs to remain open, and I have asked my officials to stay agile in that space and to monitor it, almost on a daily basis, in order to ensure that we start to see improvements and develop them.
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