Debate contribution: Domiciliary Care: Real Living Wage
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 2 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Domiciliary Care: Real Living Wage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5584279
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The Member is right to talk about the money that is spent on agency workers. Agency workers are used to make sure that we deliver safe services. We use agency nurses, for example, only if the pool of bank nurses has been exhausted. We have had, I believe, 100% success in no longer using agency social care workers. We are now looking at nursing and at locums. There is an acceptable and necessary level of agency and locum work to keep delivering safe services, but we are way beyond that, and we need to crunch it down.
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