Debate contribution: Junior Doctors’ Strike
Debate contribution by Mr Robin Swann on .
- MLA
- Mr Robin Swann
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 May 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Junior Doctors’ Strike
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4491676
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I thank the Member for his point. I believe that my Department has done everything that it can within the limits that we are under. I met junior doctors this morning and made it clear, with regard to the challenge of them coming forward with additional pay asks, that I do not have the financial capability to meet them. The Member should look at the concerns that the Fiscal Council raised in its recent report about the potential for further industrial action because most of the additional moneys that were provided to the Executive in February for restoration went towards pay commitments that had been made for 2023-24. I was straight with the junior doctors this morning, as I am with the House, in saying that I do not have the financial capability or flexibility to provide additional moneys. I am concerned about how I will be able to honour further pay recommendations that may be made this year by the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration (DDRB) but also Agenda for Change.
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