Marshalled List of Amendments

Tuesday 20 January 2026

Item 5 - Order Paper 144/22-27 – Tuesday 20 January 2026

Motion: Waiting Lists Affecting Winter Preparedness Proposed:

That this Assembly deplores the appalling pressures being faced by both patients and staff in emergency departments; expresses particular concern that this was entirely foreseeable but that planning was not carried out early enough; expresses alarm at the ongoing failure to address hospital throughput issues identified in the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Sustainability Report 2022: special focus - Health, which contributes to the number of people being left in corridors or ambulances; recognises that those who need access to, or work in, emergency departments have been let down by a failure to take early and specific action to address waiting times; and calls for an assurance, matched by a clearly set out timeline, that winter pressures planning for 2026-27 will proceed much earlier with detailed plans published no later than the summer of 2026.

Miss Nuala McAllister

Mr Danny Donnelly

Ms Paula Bradshaw

Mr Eóin Tennyson

Amendment

After ‘and calls’ insert:

‘on the Minister of Health to commit to stop spending public money on private healthcare companies for waiting list initiatives, and to invest directly in the health service and its workforce instead; and further calls ’

[Mr Gerry Carroll]