Pam Cameron: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on the Final Stage of the Preservation of Documents (Historical Institutions) Bill on behalf of the Democratic Unionist Party. I thank my Health Committee colleague Mr Alan Chambers for bringing his private Member's Bill forward. It plugs an important gap in legislation, and we all would have supported its provisions in the Adoption and Children Bill...
Pam Cameron: I do not intend to speak for long in this Final Stage debate. As I have said during debates at previous stages, the position of my party is clear, and our concerns about the legal implications of the Bill remain. Everyone will agree that harassment and abuse in their many forms are not acceptable. No one should be intimidated or harassed entering his or her workplace. No one should be...
Pam Cameron: I speak as my party's health spokesperson on the Further Consideration Stage of the Preservation of Documents (Historical Institutions) Bill. I will keep my comments brief and specifically on the amendments before the House. My party and I will be supporting amendment Nos 1 and 3 proposed by Ms Bradshaw. These amendments bring information on the use and disposal of human tissue relating to a...
Pam Cameron: Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Hopefully, this works. I am having a technology malfunction tonight. Thank you for the opportunity to speak at Consideration Stage of the Preservation of Documents (Historical Institutions) Bill, introduced by my Committee colleague Mr Alan Chambers. I thank Mr Chambers for proposing his private Member's Bill on this important issue. Although we, as an Assembly,...
Pam Cameron: Mr Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity to speak on this important motion on the draft Coronavirus Act 2020 (Extension of Powers to Act for the Protection of Public Health) Order (Northern Ireland) 2022. DUP Members are unwhipped on this motion, so I speak as an individual MLA. We understand that this legislation is to extend article 48 of, and schedule 18 to, the Coronavirus Act...
Pam Cameron: I thank the Minister for his answers to the questions so far on what is a very concerning subject. What engagement has the Department or the RQIA had with the parents or next of kin of the children who have been placed at risk in that centre to reassure them and provide clarity on the situation?
Pam Cameron: What discussions have the Minister and his Department had with pharmacists to ascertain what role Community Pharmacy will play in assisting GP services and moving forward the transformation of healthcare? Will Community Pharmacy be included in the Encompass roll-out next year?
Pam Cameron: Today is a momentous day for our Assembly in bringing the Adoption and Children Bill to Final Stage. It is a long-awaited Bill. I sincerely believe that, after 35 years, it will bring about a much-needed overhaul and reform of our adoption system. The need is all too clear for a more fit for purpose, responsive and child-focused adoption process in Northern Ireland. It is of the utmost...
Pam Cameron: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important private Member's Bill. Whilst it is a short document, the Preservation of Documents (Historical Institutions) Bill will be of great importance to many people. The Bill is based on proposed departmental amendments to the Adoption and Children Bill that were deemed to be out of scope of that Bill. In its deliberations on the Adoption and...
Pam Cameron: I do not intend to speak for too long on the amendments. My party's position is clear, and our concerns about the Bill's legal implications remain unaddressed. At the outset, I reiterate that patients, staff and visitors to health service premises should never be subject to acts of abuse or intimidation, nor should anyone else in society, for that matter. The Bill will not have the impact...
Pam Cameron: I support the motion before the House to revoke these health regulations. We have had many such debates in the Chamber, and this is another one. That we are very much heading in the right direction is a good-news story. I, too, thank all those involved in the incredible efforts against coronavirus, especially the vaccination roll-out, and applaud all those in the health service who, in the...
Pam Cameron: Thank you, Mr Speaker. We need a transformation that delivers the best possible service for all patients regardless of where they live in Northern Ireland and one that gives our health and social care workforce the facilities, capacity, support and safe staffing levels to carry out their work. In those aspects, the draft Budget leaves me and my party far from convinced. It has no plan or...
Pam Cameron: The context and circumstances of the Budget Bill are firmly rooted in the consequences of the pandemic. The real-life impact has been a tragedy for many families across the country who have faced loss. The human cost of that can never be measured, and it will certainly not be forgotten for generations. COVID-19 has also wreaked havoc on our health system and economy. Unprecedented levels of...
Pam Cameron: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I want to stay within your good books and briefly express my thanks to everyone who contributed to the Bill and its progress. I thank past and present members of the all-party group on autism, and the secretariat at Autism NI, for all their work and resource. The fact that this is the second private Member's Bill coming from the all-party group on autism speaks to the...
Pam Cameron: I beg to move That the Autism (Amendment) Bill [NIA 31/17-22] do now pass.
Pam Cameron: I am incredibly proud and grateful to be bringing the Autism (Amendment) Bill to its Final Stage this evening. More than 10 years ago, another chairperson of the all-party group on autism introduced the Autism Act (Northern Ireland) 2011. When the former SDLP MLA Dominic Bradley introduced the Autism Act in Northern Ireland, it was the first legislation passed by the Assembly that mandated...
Pam Cameron: You will be pleased to know, Mr Deputy Speaker, that I will be brief. Before I address the amendments, I restate the support of my party for the Bill in addressing the need for more responsive, fit-for-purpose and child-focused adoption processes in Northern Ireland. In all our consideration of the Bill, we must remember that children and young people are at the forefront. It is crucial that...
Pam Cameron: Again, I support the motion before us. This time, it is the draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to the Early Access to Medicines Scheme) Regulations 2022. We understand, as we did before, that the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 govern the arrangements across the UK for the licensing, manufacture, wholesale dealing and sale or supply of human medicines for human use. Rather than...
Pam Cameron: I support the motion, which deals with an amendment to the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, which govern the arrangements across the UK for the licensing, manufacture, wholesale dealing, sale and supply of human medicines for human use. The 2012 regulations were amended in 2020 to temporarily set aside some of the normal rules governing the preparation of COVID-19 and flu vaccines and their...
Pam Cameron: 8. Mrs Cameron asked the Minister for Communities how the subregional stadia programme for soccer funding can benefit the development of football clubs in South Antrim. (AQO 3227/17-22)
