Debate contribution: Healthcare Staff: Contract Dispute
Debate contribution by Mr Colin McGrath on .
- MLA
- Mr Colin McGrath
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 30 September 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Healthcare Staff: Contract Dispute
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5143176
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I felt like going, "Blah, blah, blah" with that answer, as we simply blame everybody else for not taking responsibility. You said that our healthcare workers "deserve" this money. It was promised to them. It is their pay uplift. It was due on 1 April, and tomorrow is 1 October. The Health Minister says that it is not up to him and that it is up to you as the Finance Minister. Do you have the money? Will our nurses get their pay rise?
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Part of an exchange
This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2454/22-27.
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