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 5584287
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Text
I agree with the Member that the problem is community capacity in domiciliary care workers and packages and care homes and care home beds. Where is the money to do that? Yes, we spend a lot of money on bank and agency staff, but, if we divert that flow of money to create more community capacity, hospitals become unsafe. If the health service is a train, we are running it on a track that we do not want it to run on; we want to build a different track and run it on that. We can barely afford to run it on the track that we are on, never mind creating the track that we all know that we need to create. I do not have the solution, because I do not have the money. We know what to do and how to do it; the frustration is that we do not have the cash to make it happen.
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