Debate contribution: Health Service Waiting Lists

Debate contribution by Mr Matthew O'Toole on 3 February 2025.

MLA: Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 3 February 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Health Service Waiting Lists
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4774127

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The problem is, deputy First Minister, that there is no clear plan or target for cutting waiting times. The reason why that is important is that, like a whole range of other things, whether it is the absence of an anti-poverty strategy or the failure to produce any form of serious intervention on waste water, it appears to the Northern Ireland public out there that you and your colleague the First Minister are marking time and doing photo opportunities in lieu of taking decisions to improve people's lives. Please, deputy First Minister, just for once, can you tell people when, specifically, will waiting times fall?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 961/22-27.

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