Debate contribution: Nurses' Pay Gap

Debate contribution by Mr Colin McGrath on 15 September 2025.

MLA: Mr Colin McGrath
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 15 September 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Nurses' Pay Gap
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5099381

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I am told that the Finance Minister has washed his hands of the issue by telling health unions simply to contact the Health Minister, while the Executive Office will not even reply to correspondence from the health trade unions or me requesting a meeting. Does that not show that, whilst the Finance Minister, the First Minister and the deputy First Minister are more than willing to stand beside nurses on pickets, they are unwilling to stand up for them where it counts, namely in the Executive, and pay them what they are owed?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1531/22-27.

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