Benn triggered Stormont to reform public services and book balancing – Irvine Times

During a speech to celebrate one year after the devolved government’s return to the region, Benn said Stormont leaders made a “big start”, but warned that difficult solutions were already inevitable.

The Devolved government was restored to Stormont a year after a two -year suspension, when DUP shrinks institutions in protest during trade after Brexit.

The return of Powersharing CEO saw Michelle O’Neill of Son Falle’s first first minister of nationalist nationalist in Northern Ireland while Dup Emma Little-Pengelly took on the role of the Deputy First Minister.

The four side coalition lobbies for further funding from the UK government to deal with pressure in public services, especially in the health service.

This week, the first Minister Michelle O’Neal said the case of a “appropriate model of funding” for Northern Ireland will continue to be brought to the United Kingdom government.

But Ben Ben told an audience at the University of Olster that the lack of funding from Westminster is not to blame for a crisis in public services in Northern Ireland.

He said: “The challenge for public services is especially sharp in Northern Ireland and is nowhere more successful or obvious than in health.

“The facts are frankly shocking.

“Waiting for the time of waiting against cancer care goals continues to deteriorate, the care of the corridor is becoming more frequent, and it is striking how many people in Northern Ireland are already private.

“More than a quarter of people in Northern Ireland are on a waiting list. This is more than twice the figure in England.

“53% of people waiting for a first meeting with a consultant have been waiting more than a year in Northern Ireland.

“In England, this figure is 4%. That’s right, 53% compared to only 4%. “

G -n Ben said he agreed with the latest comments from Gja O’Neal that the state of the health service in Northern Ireland was “terrible and diabolic”.

He added: “And this is despite data from the United Kingdom Department of Finance, showing that the cost per head of health is nearly 300 British pounds a year in Northern Ireland than in England.

“It is absolutely not that health and social care staff somehow do not do everything they can.

“On the contrary, they work really, really difficult to treat patients, but do it in a system that obviously doesn’t work.

“And why doesn’t it work? Because – for many years – the decisions needed for systemic and not partial reform in the healthcare and social care system in Northern Ireland are simply not taken. “

The secretary of N us stated that the challenge for the executive is “to make difficult collective decisions” in order to enable the Minister of Health Mike Nesbit to reform health services.

He said, “This is inevitable now.”

Ben said that Stormont is currently receiving through the Barnet formula, the largest amount in a real expression in the history of the Devolution.

He said: “I often hear that it is said that more funding is required than the UK government and that this is the reason why public services are in such a country.

“But given the formula based on the needs that is now available, and given the increase in the funding that the government has given, the lack of funding is not an obstacle to the transformation of public services.

“A real obstacle is the inability to reform the system.

“The many missed decision -making opportunities or to apply lessons from other parts of the United Kingdom where the reform took place.

“Of course, this was sometimes reduced to the fact that there is no executive director to make these decisions, which is why it is essential that institutions do their job every day of the year.

“At other times, there is simply a lack of an agreement between the executive ministers in the steps to be taken either regarding the allocation of resources or on revenue to be increased.”

Ben continued: “It is correct that the executive branch makes decisions about its own priorities for costs and revenue.

“However, he must take responsibility for balancing his budget and living within his resources, just as all other governments should.”

He denied that he “tells” Stormont’s countries about the reform of public service.

“I would not characterize as telling anyone, this is not my style or approach, we are in that together,” he said.