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Swann slams Poots over care homes “debacle”
Mr Robin Swann, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and Chairperson of the Stormont Employment and Learning Committee, has severely criticised Health Minister Edwin Poots over his “disastrous handling of the care homes debacle”, warning that the Minister could have avoided the unnecessary crisis. Assemblyman Swann, who is also North Antrim UUP Chairman and Party Chief Whip, was to the fore in the UUP campaign to retain services at care homes in the constituency. Mr Swann said: “The bitter medicine that the Health Minister Edwin Poots must swallow is that he ignored warnings received more than a year ago from the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland in relation to the proposed closure of care homes. “More than a year ago, on the 18 April 2012, Claire Keatinge, the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland handed a Briefing Note to the Health Minister at a … Continue reading
Swann and Nesbitt urge Carson Project backing
Mr Robin Swann, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and Chairperson of the Stormont Employment and Learning Committee, has joined forces with his Party Leader Mike Nesbitt MLA to urge funders to give their full backing to the Ballymena-based Carson Project. The Carson Project is a Ballymena-based group of individuals drawn from a wide spectrum of the Protestant, Unionist, Loyalist community, who have come together to offer their members a positive and meaningful role in Northern Ireland’s post-conflict society. Speaking after a meeting at the offices of local Ulster Unionist MLA, Robin Swann, Mike Nesbitt said: “Whatever way you analyse the past, the current situation is that there are many, many people in our community who devoted energy into our Troubles. “Now that we crawl slowly towards a proper peace, it is the duty of all elected representatives to ensure those with energy direct it towards positive … Continue reading
Swann steps up war to win heart op services
Mr Robin Swann, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and Chairperson of the Stormont Employment and Learning Committee, has said any plan to move paediatric cardiac surgery from Belfast to Dublin as “an unmitigated medical disaster”. In a highly emotional and keynote speech, Mr Swann, who is also North Antrim UUP Chairman and Party Chief Whip, secured the support of almost 90 MLAs following a Stormont debate calling for a reversal of the plan to move the heart surgery south. The Assembly motion, which Mr Swann won by a substantial margin, stated: “That this Assembly notes the publication of the preferred option document by the paediatric congenital cardiac services working group and the related Children’s Heartbeat Trust report. “This Assembly calls on the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to reject the recommendation of a Dublin-only service for the future commissioning of regional paediatric cardiac … Continue reading
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Swann urges farmers to apply for weather cash
Mr Robin Swann, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and Chairman of the Stormont Employment and Learning Committee, has urged farmers who have lost livestock as a result of the recent snowstorms to write to DARD at the earliest opportunity stating their case so that they do not lose out on their 2014 Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances (LFACA) claim. Assemblyman Swann, who is also North Antrim UUP Chairman and Party Chief Whip, was speaking after a Ministerial statement on the severe weather and its impact on the farming community. Mr Swann said: “Our North Antrim constituency was one of the main areas of Northern Ireland which suffered the most as a result of these snowstorms. “So it is absolutely crucial that North Antrim farmers who have lost stock in the recent bad weather contact the Department of Agriculture before 15 May so that their LFACA claim … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture and Rural Development, Agriculture and rural development, farmers, force majeure, Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowances (LFACA) claim, north antrim, Northern Ireland, Robin Swann MLA, Single Application Form, snowstorms, ulster unionist, UUP
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Swann calls for more surgeons
Mr Robin Swann, the North Antrim Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member and Chairman of the Stormont Employment and Learning Committee, has challenged Health Minister Edwin Poots to increase, not cut, the number of surgeons required for post operation surgeries. Mr Swann, who is also North Antrim UUP Chairman and Party Chief Whip, posed the question to the Minister at Stormont. Mr Swann also declared an interest as the parent of a five and a half-week-old son, Evan, who is currently awaiting heart surgery in Belfast. Assemblyman Swann added: “From my experience, the cardiac and paediatric surgeons and the anaesthetists in the Royal Victoria Hospital are of the highest professional and specialist standard, as I am sure the Minister will agree. “Does he also agree, however, that if he reduces the number of surgeries that are completed in the Royal it will become increasingly difficult to recruit to those posts, which … Continue reading
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