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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:45 pm on 15 April 2024.

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Photo of Robin Swann Robin Swann UUP 2:45, 15 April 2024

The Member raised the specific facility of Rainbow Lodge in the Northern Trust at the Health Committee. I have looked at the additional respite capacity in that facility but also across Northern Ireland, because the issue does not just affect the Northern Trust. Our supply of respite is constrained by the pressures that we see in cases, such as the one indicated by the Member who spoke previously, where complex additional needs consume quite a lot of our respite care.