Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said the latest monitoring round agreed by the Northern Ireland Executive is ‘insufficient’ as he cannot maintain pay parity. The Department of Health will receive an additional £350 million, but he says he needs another £100 million.
The leaders of the five main parties at Stormont have written to the Government calling them to restore funding for the remaining two City and Growth Deals, after they were paused on Friday evening by the Chancellor.
The Ulster Unionist Party has confirmed their new leader will be Mike Nesbitt. This will be his second stint in the job, he was leader from 2012 until 2017. He will remain as Health Minister in the Northern Ireland Executive.
The former leader is set to return to the top job in the Ulster Unionist Party as he will run for the leadership unopposed. Mike Nesbitt is expected to remain as Health Minister when he takes up the role.
Politicians from a range of parties across Northern Ireland have been reacting to and condemning the violence and attacks in Belfast over the past week. The Assembly will meet on Thursday to discuss the violence following a recall petition.
The Executive has agreed to allocate an additional £122 million to the Department of Health and £43.7 million to the Department of Education as part of the June monitoring round, but the SDLP have criticised the timing of the annoucement with the general election on Thursday.
Ulster Unionist MLA Mike Nesbitt has been appointed as Northern Ireland’s new Minister of Health, after Robin Swann stepped down to focus on campaigning for the upcoming general election.
A councillor on Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council has quit the Ulster Unionist Party following the decision to replace Robin Swann with Mike Nesbitt as Health Minister, saying the party is run “like a dictatorship”.
Ulster Unionist Robin Swann is to step down as Health Minister when his general election campaign starts; He will be standing for the UUP in South Antrim in an attempt to gain the seat from the DUP’s Paul Girvan.
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