Motion or amendment: Pressure on PSNI due to Health System Failings
Motion or amendment by Mr Danny Donnelly on .
- MLA
- Mr Danny Donnelly
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 10 November 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Pressure on PSNI due to Health System Failings
- Assembly identifier
- Document 458302
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Pressure on PSNI due to Health System Failings
That this Assembly expresses grave concern that failings in the health and social care system are forcing the PSNI to act as the service of last resort for those facing mental ill-health or other forms of health crisis; expresses further severe concern that the PSNI responds to over 100 concern for safety calls per day on average, with only three per cent of those incidents linked to crime; agrees that having to make up for gaps in health and social services is having an unaffordable impact on policing resources and capacity; notes that this additional pressure is being put on policing despite the Department of Health receiving more than half of the Executive’s entire 2025-26 resource budget; and calls on the Minister of Health to prioritise delivery of the Mental Health Strategy 2021-2031, Health and Wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together and the Right Care, Right Person model in order to address the unsustainable burden his Department is placing on police services.
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