Debate contribution: Excess Deaths Linked to Long Emergency Department Waits
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 20 April 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Question for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- Excess Deaths Linked to Long Emergency Department Waits
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5493696
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Text
If I have the budget to increase capacity, of course I will increase capacity. If I was not clear, let me say that when I talked about introducing the real living wage, that was the first step that I was referring to. I want to make that clear. It is not the be-all and end-all, but with budget, it will be the first thing that I can do with relative ease. Yes, we need to increase capacity. We need more people providing care at home — so-called domiciliary care — and we need more beds in care homes within the community. That will take time, but it will also take budget and commitment.
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