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All relevant material evidence presented as part of the planning application will be given the weight that it deserves as part of the planning process.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
How will the Minister ensure that residents' concerns about the incinerator, on issues including but not limited to traffic, residential amenity, visual amenity and, of course, pollution, will be given appropriate weight going forward?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
A public inquiry is necessary when it is likely to elicit further information on material considerations where those considerations have not been adequately addressed by the planning application. Obviously, I am aware that there was a previous public inquiry on this application in October 2016. The decision on whether…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
Will the Minister consider holding a public inquiry to allow for a detailed independent examination before a final decision is issued?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
I thank the Member for his question; I will thank him. The Member asked why my officials are engaging with an applicant. That is not unusual. Officials will engage with applicants on planning applications if they require further information or clarification on any matter. As I said, it would be inappropriate for me to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
The question is this: why are officials in the Minister's Department talking directly to Becon to see whether it can adjust to the planning rules and regulations so that it can meet the requirements to go for this when it is very clear that whatever has been put forward is not going to work? Over to you, Minister.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
I do indeed. I am getting to it, Mr Speaker.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
I thank the — well, I think that I thank the Minister for his response. The issue, Minister, for everybody in the Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council area and the rest of it and, indeed, for his own MLAs, who have sat with me on platforms about Arc21 and what it has been doing about the Hightown incinerator, is…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
My officials continue to process this application, and, as the Minister with responsibility for this planning decision, I will fully consider the recommendation that comes from my officials before taking any decision in the public interest. I am aware of the number of responses to this planning application, as well as…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hightown Incinerator: Planning Application
I thank the Member. At this stage, my priority is waiting to be given the report on the cervical cytology review and the two reports that I mentioned in my previous answer and examining those. A statutory public inquiry asks a number of questions: "What happened? Why it did it happen, and who was responsible? What can…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ladies with Letters: Southern Health and Social Care Trust Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ladies with Letters: Southern Health and Social Care Trust
Thank you for the answer, Minister. I know that you have dealt with Ladies with Letters, and I am sure that they appreciate that update. Will you establish a statutory inquiry into the matter so that the ladies get the accountability and transparency that they deserve?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ladies with Letters: Southern Health and Social Care Trust Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ladies with Letters: Southern Health and Social Care Trust
I thank the Member for her question. Yes, I think that the review is due to be completed shortly. A report will set out its factual findings. A further report will set out the facts on the invasive cervical cancer audits. Those two reports will be produced by the Public Health Agency (PHA) in the Southern Trust, and a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ladies with Letters: Southern Health and Social Care Trust Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ladies with Letters: Southern Health and Social Care Trust
I think that the Member is aware that, where money is available, it is being targeted towards red-flag referrals. I met the Member and a group of women from her constituency, and some of the narratives were truly shocking, not least those on the waits. For some people, the wait was being measured not in months but in…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Outcomes and Waiting Lists Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Outcomes and Waiting Lists
I thank the Minister for his answer. Red-flag referrals are one of the most concerning issues in gynaecology. Will the Minister give an update on any work that has been done on that? We had the cervical smear review in the Southern Trust, and, for many women, that is the most worrying aspect of it. If the Minister…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Outcomes and Waiting Lists Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Outcomes and Waiting Lists
I thank the Member for her question. I will certainly take that away, because, as a general point, we are looking at the productivity and efficiency of the health service, particularly in regard to elective or scheduled procedures. There is more to be done to deliver those in a more efficient, effective and timely…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Outcomes and Waiting Lists Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Outcomes and Waiting Lists
There are a couple of points to make on that. Some people think that consultants work for specific hospitals, such as Craigavon or Daisy Hill. Contracts should be with a trust, and consultants should be told that they are expected to travel as demand dictates. We have had some successful forays abroad to attract…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Private Sector Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Private Sector
I thank the Minister. I share that concern overall. It is important. It is clear that more needs to be done to attract the required consultants to come and work here across the North, including the Western Trust area. What more can you do or are you doing to attract the required consultants to work in the public…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Private Sector Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Private Sector
I thank the Member for the question. It is a very important point. I am sure that, from his former role, he is aware that the Department looked at the significant cost that it was incurring from the use of agency nurses. A decision was made to stop, and that was successful. I am told that there was a bit of scepticism…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Private Sector Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Health and Social Care: Private Sector
I thank the Member for his question, but I do not have a specific answer. Some people think that I am not in favour of a women's health strategy: I am, in principle, but it is not right to present a strategy that you cannot afford to deliver on. The Member may be aware that I have campaigned on mental health since I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Women's Cardiovascular Health Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Women's Cardiovascular Health
Thank you, Minister. Will you outline the budget that your Department intends to allocate to the women's health action plan?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Women's Cardiovascular Health Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Women's Cardiovascular Health
I thank the Member for his question. Like me, he may have been in Long Gallery for the meeting on heart failure earlier today. Mr Speaker, I do not know whether it requires a declaration of interest, but that is the very condition that I was diagnosed with in 2016, so I declare that I have two stents, a pacemaker and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Women's Cardiovascular Health Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Women's Cardiovascular Health
In January, yes. The point, to me, is that it is delivered in this financial year. If it happens to slip, that is a matter of regret, but it is not as big a regret as not being able to deliver it at all. I am determined to deliver it, even if it slips into the 2025 calendar year.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare Workers: Pay Parity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare Workers: Pay Parity
It is next year, in January.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare Workers: Pay Parity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare Workers: Pay Parity
I thank the Member, but, if I heard him correctly, he seemed to suggest that part of this year's pay award will be delivered in the next financial year.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare Workers: Pay Parity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare Workers: Pay Parity
Thank you, Minister. Yes, a promise that was made and then broken is being replaced with another promise that the money will be forthcoming next year. It is an awful lot to ask healthcare workers to accept that. Will the Minister commit to stopping the Executive's politicking and blaming of one another for why they do…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare Workers: Pay Parity Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare Workers: Pay Parity
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