Debate contribution: PSNI: Pressure due to Health System Failings

Debate contribution by Mr Alan Chambers on 1 December 2025.

MLA: Mr Alan Chambers
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 1 December 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Private Members' Business
Heading: PSNI: Pressure due to Health System Failings
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5269417

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I declare an interest in that I am a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. Let me be absolutely clear about this: when a person or a loved one is facing a mental health crisis, the last thing that they need is for the issue to be politicised. Yet, regrettably, that is exactly what the motion appears to do. It wraps an incredibly sensitive subject in political language and pretends that system-wide pressures can be solved by pointing a finger. That is not leadership; it is opportunism wearing the clothes of compassion.

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