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  4. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    Minister, thank you for your statement. Given that GP practices that are run by trusts and those that have returned their contracts and have become GP practices that are organised by the trusts have their practice indemnity paid for them, does the Minister not see that there is a clear need to pay the indemnity costs…

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  5. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    I thank the Member. The money that Mr Swann put in was to improve access to telephony and IT services, and there are IT solutions to achieve what she has asked about. On her concern that this may lead to the collapse of GP practices, I suggest to her that, if we had decided to withhold the £5 million for indemnity and…

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  6. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    I thank the Minister for his interesting statement. Access to GPs is an issue that is raised with me daily, particularly by rural patients, who have to travel further. He will know that, in the south-west area, we have a had a collapse of services, and I am concerned that the statement will push further collapse. My…

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  8. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    Minister, the statement is nothing short of a disgrace and, at times, a personalised attack on members of the General Practitioners Committee. Our GPs see 200,000 patients a week but constituents need more access. It is the first time, I believe, since devolution that a contract has been imposed on medical staff in…

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  9. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    The BMA has said that the £3·5 million made available by the Department for the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions may not be enough to cover the actual cost to GPs. However, the Minister said in his statement that £3·5 million will cover the full cost. Can the Minister provide evidence that it…

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  10. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    I thank the Minister for his statement. I agree that an open-ended period of negotiation, with little or no prospect of the funding situation changing, would only provide a distraction from the wide-ranging discussions that the Health Department will have with primary care. Does the Minister hope that, through the new…

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  11. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    Minister, you outlined in your statement — you just said it again — that there could be catastrophic cuts that cost lives. The inability to access a GP and to have fully functioning, sustainable GP services is costing lives and will cost lives into the future. Evidence was given at the Committee last week about the…

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  12. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    Our GPs deliver 10 million appointments every year on 5·4% of an £8 billion Health budget. That is significantly below the 8% to 10% in other UK nations. Your stated ambition is to shift left into the primary and community sector. What justification is there for continuing to underfund GP practices in Northern…

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  13. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    I must say, Minister, that making this type of statement in the House is an interesting way to conduct a negotiation. Minister, do you understand how GPs will view this statement, given that your Department spends well over £0·5 billion per year on the administration of health in Northern Ireland? Do you accept that…

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  15. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    Minister, you began by saying that you were not looking for a fight, but your statement is extremely combative. You are emphatic that you cannot do any more for GPs. However, equally emphatic is the fact that 99·7% of GPs have rejected your contract offer. The BMA talks of GP burnout, early retirements, potential…

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  16. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    Minister, if you are willing to go to war with our GPs and impose the settlement on them without their approval, has your Department assessed the impact of doing so? Will you take responsibility for the collateral damage that will undoubtedly follow?

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  18. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    Minister, today's statement is not just about a failure of negotiation; it reads like the Executive are declaring war on our already overburdened GP sector. In any trade union negotiations, if you publicly detail the content of those negotiations and then impose a settlement that has already been rejected, it follows…

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  19. Debate contribution: GP GMS Contract 2025-26

    I thank you, Mr Speaker. When I took up post, the last thing that I was looking for was a fight. I have huge respect for the tens of thousands of wonderful colleagues who deliver excellent healthcare every day in Northern Ireland, including, of course, GPs. In fact, I could argue that a GP saved my life, because it…

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  20. Debate contribution: Assembly Business

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Given that Standing Orders state that Ministers should bring matters of importance to the House before they reach the media and given that the anti-poverty strategy that the Minister for Communities is supposedly introducing was discussed in the media last week, will you look into why…

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  21. Member's statement: Executive Office: Media Monitoring Unit

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Will you illuminate the House on how Mr Aiken's comments align with Standing Orders, particularly Standing Order 24A(6)(d) on Members' statements? Will you also remind him that to claim that people are antisemitic just because they support the rights of Palestinians is a disgraceful…

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  22. Member's statement: Executive Office: Media Monitoring Unit

    Last week, I received a partial response to a freedom of information request asking for all information held by the Executive Office about a meeting between the First Minister and the Chair of the Executive Office Committee. Tellingly, the handwritten notes from that meeting were not disclosed as part of the bundle.…

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  23. Member's statement: Brexit: UK-EU Summit

    I welcome the UK-EU summit that is taking place in London today. It feels like a lifetime since the breakfast — I am still calling it "breakfast" — the Brexit referendum in 2016 and the UK's withdrawal from the European Union in January 2020. Both moments will be remembered as being among the most damaging acts of…

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  24. Member's statement: Antisemitism: Belfast Synagogue and Eurovision Song Contest

    I would like to speak about two events from the past few weeks. The first is an attack on the place of worship of our small but much-valued Jewish community. The vandalism at Belfast synagogue is another stark example of the insidious antisemitism that permeates the narrative of far too many political parties and,…

    Flagged Decided on a second assessment. Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) Criteria met: Identity framing, Cultural grievance politics.

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  25. Member's statement: Driver and Vehicle Agency: Reported Fraud

    I am concerned about media reports over the weekend that centred on what seems to be fraudulent activity in the Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA). Yesterday, the media reported that some drivers had been able to gain a licence through payment, having not sat a driving test, and that, as a result, a police investigation…

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