Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed the advice on Covid booster vaccinations from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI). The interim advice from JCVI is to plan to offer booster vaccines from September 2021...
Reacting to the publication of a tracker poll for academics about views on the NI Protocol, Lord Empey said: “A poll published today shows that 8 out of 10 people in Northern Ireland distrust the DUP...
Responding to the court judgement on the NI Protocol challenge, Steve Aiken OBE MLA said: “We acknowledge the findings of the Court. However, this is an issue of such magnitude that it needs to be...
Ulster Unionist Policing Board spokesperson Mike Nesbitt MLA has expressed surprise that Justice Minister Naomi Long MLA has questioned whether the PSNI needs the 7,500 full time officers promised in the New Decade New Approach...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s Assembly Chief Whip, Robbie Butler MLA, has called for clarity from the UK Government as a matter of urgency, following news that the European Commission is poised to lift its ban...
Health Minister Robin Swann has announced that Tom Kark QC is to chair the Public Inquiry into abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital. The Minister made the announcement as he unveiled a report prepared by the Patient...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s Agriculture Spokesperson Rosemary Barton MLA has called for clarity from the UK Government as a matter of urgency, following news that the European Commission is poised to lift its ban on...
Ulster Unionist Economy spokesperson, Mike Nesbitt MLA, is calling for the Executive Office to extend and increase support for travel agents whose business has been decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic. This follows information provided by the...
Health Minister Robin Swann today launched the new Mental Health Strategy 2021-2031, setting the strategic direction for mental health in Northern Ireland for the next decade. Launching the new strategy in an Oral statement to the...
UUP Councillor, Kyle Savage, has urged the Agriculture Minister to seek common ground between the Private Members` Bill on Climate Change in Stormont and his own Bill. An Ulster Unionist Party amended motion calling for...
John Stewart MLA, Deputy Chair of the NI Assembly Executive Office Committee, has stated that EU failure to recognise the damage being caused to the Belfast Agreement will lead to continued instability. Mr Stewart said: “I was...
UUP DAERA spokesperson Rosemary Barton MLA said: “As we approach the summer months many people are turning their attention to a long-awaited break and many are choosing to stay within the UK because of the uncertainty...
Ulster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt has warned the Department for Communities (DfC) that it needs to get to grips with the current crisis in PIP assessment, and not seek to involve the Health Department as...
Vaccination opens doors to normality, Health Minister Robin Swann has emphasised. In an open letter (below), the Minister makes a personal appeal to people who have not yet been jabbed, saying: “Please don’t put off your...
Roy Beggs MLA has expressed his alarm at the lack of recognition given by the EU Commission to the adverse effect that the NI Protocol is having on medical supplies to Northern Ireland and is...
Ulster Unionist Economy spokesperson Mike Nesbitt MLA has welcomed the news that the Department for the Economy is delivering practical financial support to protect essential air connectivity between Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Mike Nesbitt said: "The...
Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed June monitoring round allocations of funding for the health service. Mr Swann was speaking after the allocations were announced by Finance Minister Conor Murphy. These include £31.5m for alleviating waiting...
Following comments from Lord Deben that Stormont instability could hinder emissions targets, Steve Aiken MLA said: “Lord Deben’s comments today should be a wake-up call to all those who believe that we are running out of...
A three-year blueprint for rebuilding cancer care in Northern Ireland has today been published by Health Minister Robin Swann. The recovery plan sets out a series of short and medium term initiatives to enhance services badly...
The Ulster Unionist Party’s Communities spokesperson, Andy Allen MBE MLA, has challenged the Communities Minister to implement urgent changes to the PIP application system after a damning report from the Public Services Ombudsman highlighted systemic...
Northern Ireland’s Covid-19 vaccination centres are now offering first dose appointments to everyone aged 18 and over, as part of the drive to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible. In recent weeks, the...
Ulster Unionist Party Leader, Doug Beattie MC MLA, has written to EU Commission Vice President Maroš Šefcovic to highlight the harmful impact that the Northern Ireland Protocol is having on the supply of medicines from...
Cataract patients are set to benefit from a new one-stop see and treat service model at the Downe Hospital. The new model being piloted by the South Eastern Trust is part of a wider programme to...
Health Minister Robin Swann has set out all the ways testing can help keep people safe from COVID-19. “Alongside vaccination and contact tracing, testing is one of the main pillars of protection against the virus,” the...
East Belfast Ulster Unionist MLA Andy Allen MBE has called on the First and deputy First Ministers to ensure that welfare mitigation legislation submitted by the Communities Minister in March, is tabled at this week’s...
Health Minister Robin Swann has published a Consultation Analysis Report on the Draft Mental Health Strategy, which itself was published in December. Welcoming the input from all those who participated in the consultation, Minister Swann said: “I...
Ulster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt is calling on the Alliance Party’s North Down MP Stephen Farry, to apologise and withdraw his outrageous comment made on BBC Radio this morning that unionism has created a ‘grievance...
Ulster Unionist Party leader, Doug Beattie MC MLA, has requested an urgent meeting with the Secretary of State, Brandon Lewis MP. Mr Beattie said: “I have requested an urgent meeting with the Secretary of State seeking immediate...
Ulster Unionist Party Leader, Doug Beattie MC MLA, has stated that the Loyalist Communities Council should not be a forum to create division. Mr Beattie said: “Yet again unionism finds itself on the back foot because a...
Ulster Unionist Health Spokesperson Alan Chambers MLA has called on the current First Minister and deputy First Minister to approve an urgent request from Robin Swann to let the important Organ Donation and Children &...