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  1. Debate contribution: Unadopted Housing Developments and Roads

    I beg to move At the outset, I declare an interest as a homeowner living in an unadopted housing development. Today's motion is nothing new to the Chamber, but it is an issue that I know Members deal with on a regular and frequent basis. To date, we have been unable to fully implement a road map on it. We are failing…

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  2. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    In my speech, I failed to mention that I am prepared to work with the Minister of Health and the Department to introduce legislation. I wish that he would introduce it, but I feel that he will not. His utterances today suggest that he will not. I will do so, if need be, but I wish that the Department of Health would…

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  3. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    Does the Member acknowledge that, in some of those instances, the individuals involved in dealing with the families afterwards are the same individuals who now sit on the boards that are implementing the very recommendations from the public inquires through which the truth eventually came out?

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  4. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    Thank you very much, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank the Members for their contributions this afternoon. I very much concur with the Minister that there has been a passionate debate. That is because we all care so much about the issue and, as elected representatives, have heard the stories of the victims and…

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  5. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-Leas-Cheann Comhairle. The motion and the amendment seek to create a culture of transparency and accountability in the North's health and social care system. By establishing a legally enforceable duty of candour, we will take a critical step to ensure that every organisation and…

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  6. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    Again, I accept that as the Member's genuine belief. Ultimately, it will be a judgement call for the House. I will make my judgement call after we have consulted on our Being Open framework. We can all agree, however, that we have an opportunity here to end the years of frustration. At this point, we might not agree…

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  7. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    Just on the chill factor and some individuals in the health system being afraid to speak out because they are under pressure maybe from more senior people in the health service. If they have a choice to make between acquiescing in what a more senior person wants or complying with the law, where, if they do not, they…

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  8. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    The Minister needs to be honest and genuine today in saying to healthcare workers that a duty of candour will come into force only where there is cover-up. All that people like Alan and Jennifer Roberts want from today is to ensure that there is no cover-up.

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  9. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    I thank the Minister for taking my intervention. Will you agree, Minister, that being open is one part of it but that staff seeing the changes that need to be made when they are open, visible and in front of them is what will encourage them to be open? It can be disheartening when you tell the truth about something…

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  10. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    To begin with, I acknowledge not only the genuine passion with which Members have spoken but the frustration that nothing has been done in a long number of years. Members have alluded to the fact that the idea of a duty of candour has been around since the inquiry into hyponatraemia-related deaths and the conclusions…

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  11. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    Being open and honest when things go wrong is definitely the right thing to do, and I pay tribute to all the families who have campaigned for that — the families of former patients of Dr Watt, the Roberts family and all those who have been mentioned so far. As the motion states, the vast majority of health and social…

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  12. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    I thank the Member for giving way. I know how personal the issue is to him, and I commend him on his private Member's Bill. He mentioned Lynsey Courtney. She was not only my friend but my constituent. Does the Member agree that the way in which those families have had to fight has compounded the grief that they have…

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  13. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    I think of Adam Strain, Lucy Crawford, Raychel Ferguson, Conor Mitchell and Claire Roberts: children at the centre of the O'Hara report. Alan and Jennifer Roberts, Claire's mum and dad, are with us today. I think of Conan McIlwrath, vice chair of the UK Haemophilia Society, and Nigel Hamilton, chairperson of…

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  14. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    A statutory and legally enforceable duty of candour in our health and social care system is urgently needed on both an organisational and individual basis. Although there is no question that the vast majority of our health and social care staff are committed to the highest standards of care, it is impossible to…

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  15. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    I give my party's support to the motion and the amendment. The report into hyponatraemia-related deaths was published in January 2018, 14 years after the inquiry was set up. The report set out 96 recommendations, all of which were deemed to be major pieces of work, with implications for the entire health and social…

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  16. Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour

    I thank the Member for giving way. From my time on the Committee with him, he knows that we are both extremely passionate about this issue. I agree that the fight that the Roberts family has had to go through has been nothing short of disgraceful. Does the Member agree that the current system encourages cover-up…

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