Debate contribution: Transformation Plans
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 24 November 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Transformation Plans
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5254328
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I presume that the Member is talking about tangible measures that show how transformation works. We already do that. We have done quite a bit of transformation in primary care. Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are being rolled out, and I am very grateful to the Executive and the public-sector transformation board for the £61 million received, which will enable phase 2 to happen over the next four years. There are measures in there, based on the number of people who have accessed MDTs. We have introduced rapid diagnostic centres for vague symptoms of cancer at Whiteabbey Hospital and at the South Tyrone Hospital in Dungannon. Again, the statistics come through for the number of patients who go through those processes. We have elective overnight-stay centres, and the stats are there for them, and we have day procedure centres in places such as Lagan Valley Hospital, for which , once again, the stats are there. I do not want to be judged on my saying, "We have introduced rapid diagnostic centres, so that is a tick in a box". Rather, it is a question of my saying, "We have introduced rapid diagnostic centres, and the outcomes have been x, y and z". Those outcomes are there to be assessed.
207 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.02 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.81).
- No identity-based framing was identified (1.00).
- The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging threshold.
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Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.02 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.01 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.01 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.02 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.02 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.81 | Yes |
| Overall judgement | 0.02 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing (chosen) | 1.00 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it | 0.00 |
| Adopts it | 0.00 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-related subject | 1.00 |
| Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials | 0.00 |
| Parades, bonfires and commemorations | 0.00 |
| Irish language, Ulster-Scots and language policy | 0.00 |
| Sport (including the GAA), the arts and cultural bodies | 0.00 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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