Debate contribution: Domiciliary Care Services: Rural Areas

Debate contribution by Mr Colin McGrath on 5 May 2026.

MLA: Mr Colin McGrath
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 5 May 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Domiciliary Care Services: Rural Areas
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5524686

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The first step towards identifying the solution to a problem is to acknowledge that there is a problem and then to determine who is causing it. I have asked you time and time again who is causing health service problems — you, through a lack of decision-making, or the Executive, through lacking the finance to deal with the problems — yet you have always ducked the question. I will go again: is it your lack of decision-making or the Executive's lack of funding that is causing the problem in domiciliary care?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 2301/22-27.

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