Motion or amendment: Pressure on PSNI due to Health System Failings - Amendment 2
Motion or amendment by Mr Alan Chambers on .
- MLA
- Mr Alan Chambers
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 27 November 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Pressure on PSNI due to Health System Failings”
- Heading
- Pressure on PSNI due to Health System Failings - Amendment 2
- Assembly identifier
- Document 461452
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Pressure on PSNI due to Health System Failings - Amendment 2
Leave out all after ‘care system’ and insert: ‘and the lack of resource provision is forcing the PSNI and the Northern Ireland Prison Service to act as the last resort for those facing mental health crises; 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; further agrees that the Right Care, Right Person model should be implemented as soon as it safe and possible to do so; accepts that health expenditure has not kept pace with the levels and rate of increasing health demand and objective need; notes those funding restraints necessitated the completion of a review of the deliverability of the Mental Health Strategy’s actions; calls on the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunal Service to look at alternatives to incarceration; further calls on the Minister of Justice to bring forward plans to reduce those held on remand with mental health issues; and calls on the Minister of Health to engage with all parties and Executive Ministers to make the case for a sufficient funding allocation in the upcoming multi-year budget.’
226 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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