Mrs Deborah Erskine

Title: Mrs
Official Last Name: Erskine
Official First Name: Deborah
Usual First Name: Deborah
Party: Democratic Unionist Party
Constituency: Fermanagh and South Tyrone

Biography

Party History

Party	Role	Period
Democratic Unionist Party	Party Member	05/05/2022 - Present
Democratic Unionist Party	Party Member	11/10/2021 - 27/03/2022

MLA History

Date	Constituency	Designation
11/10/2021	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Unionist, Replaced Mrs Arlene Foster
13/05/2022	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	Unionist, Re-elected

Office/Committee History

Period	Position	Office/Committee
18/02/2022 - 25/02/2022	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Health and the Committee for Justice
03/02/2022 - 10/02/2022	Committee Member	Concurrent Committee of the Committee for Health and Committee for Education
01/11/2021 - 28/03/2022	Committee Member	Committee for Health

All Party Group History

Period	Position	All Party Group
06/07/2023 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Further and Higher Education
27/06/2023 - Present	Assembly Party Group Vice-Chairperson	All-Party Group on Mental Health
13/06/2023 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Domestic and Sexual Violence
28/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on MS and Neurology
23/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Community Pharmacy
22/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Treasurer	All-Party Group on Rare Disease
20/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Vice-Chairperson	All-Party Group on Diabetes
17/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Autism
16/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Early Education and Childcare
15/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Secretary	All-Party Group on Cancer
15/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Lung Health
08/06/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Vice-Chairperson	All-Party Group on Carers
31/05/2022 - Present	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Social Enterprise
29/06/2022 - 27/06/2023	Assembly Party Group Member	All-Party Group on Mental Health
14/06/2022 - 13/06/2023	Assembly Party Group Secretary	All-Party Group on Domestic and Sexual Violence
18/02/2022 - 27/03/2022	Assembly Party Group Treasurer	All-Party Group on Rare Disease

Contacts

Register of Interests

Assembly Questions

Session:

81 Questions, Page 1 of 9

Display All Answers

Note: [R] indicates a registered declaration of interest

AQW 5205/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure what efforts his Department is taking to prevent the discharge of untreated sewage into Lough Erne.

+ Display Answer

25/10/2022

Answered on 28/10/2022

AQW 5200/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister for Infrastructure to detail the efforts made by his Department and NI Water to identify and quantify all discharges of raw sewage into Lough Erne.

+ Display Answer

25/10/2022

Answered on 28/10/2022

AQW 5132/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health (i) what structures exist to take forward oral health Improvement in Northern Ireland following the standing down of the Northern Ireland Oral Health Improvement Group; and (ii) to outline what role the Public Health Agency has in relation to oral health.

+ Display Answer

24/10/2022

Answered on 26/10/2022

AQW 5125/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health (i) for his assessment of whether the significant pay disparity with other UK nations is having an adverse impact on recruitment and retention of Hospital dental trainees in Northern Ireland; and (ii) what efforts are being taken to address this.

24/10/2022

To be answered by 08/11/2022

AQW 4931/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health (i) for his assessment of the current challenges facing Health Service committed practitioners; and (ii) what financial support is being made available to address the exceptional nature of soaring expenses impacting on Health Service dentistry.

+ Display Answer

19/10/2022

Answered on 26/10/2022

AQW 4911/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health (i) what dental workforce planning is being progressed at this time; and (ii) what efforts are being made to address recruitment and retention issues caused by pay disparity, the absence of Clinical Excellence Awards, pensions mitigations and timely funding to recruit to posts, particularly within the Hospital dental services.

+ Display Answer

19/10/2022

Answered on 26/10/2022

AQW 4910/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health what reassurances can he give to the dental profession in response to British Dental Association's survey findings that morale among Health Service committed dentists is at rock bottom, and that there is significant uncertainty and a crisis of confidence among dental practitioners in Health Service dentistry at this time.

+ Display Answer

19/10/2022

Answered on 25/10/2022

AQW 4909/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health (i) what percentage uplift will be applied towards the Expenses component of the Doctors and Dentists Remuneration uplift; (ii) what methodology is being used to calculate the expenses uplift; and (iii) when will the Doctors and Dentists Remuneration uplift be paid to dentists.

+ Display Answer

19/10/2022

Answered on 26/10/2022

AQW 4842/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health whether he has considered commissioning community-based, primary care audiology services, similar to services for eyecare under the Northern Ireland Primary Eyecare Assessment and Referral Scheme.

+ Display Answer

18/10/2022

Answered on 27/10/2022

AQW 4836/22-27

Mrs Deborah Erskine
(DUP - Fermanagh and South Tyrone)

To ask the Minister of Health whether he intends to introduce a primary care audiology model on par with existing community eye services and similar to the model committed to by the Scottish Government.

+ Display Answer

18/10/2022

Answered on 27/10/2022

1

Plenary Business

Votes On Division

Find Your MLA

Locate your local MLA.

News and Media Centre

Read press releases, watch live and archived video

Follow the Assembly

Keep up to date with what’s happening at the Assem

Subscribe

Enter your email address to keep up to date.