Motions

Conference is concerned at the current crisis whereby over a million citizens of Syria and other Middle Eastern countries are displaced because of the political and humanitarian crisis in these countries. No-one can fail to have been moved by the pictures...

The mandate of the NI Assembly passed in march without the completion of legislation designed to outlaw discrimination on the grounds of age, a requirement under the 1998 Belfast Agreement, and the subject of equivalent legislation in England, Wales, Scotland...

Conference is concerned that the hollowing out of the labour market is leading to a growing gulf between low paid and often insecure employment and top level professional roles, with fewer opportunities for individuals to progress through mid-range specialist...

Conference applauds the Alliance for Choice campaign – ‘Trust Women’, and calls on all candidates in the forthcoming Assembly elections to: TRUST WOMEN to make decisions about their own lives Ask for LEGAL CHANGE to allow greater access Push for a FREE VOTE on...

Conference recognises that finding childcare on bank holidays, at weekends, in the evening and/or early morning remains a serious challenge for parents in Northern Ireland. Paying for this care presents parents with yet another challenge. Given this, many...

In light of the extent of disability in developing countries and the lack of employment legislation enforcement even when acceptable such legislation has been passed; and given the implacable hostility of most employers to the employment and advancement of...

The Public Health Agency (PHA) recognises that reducing health inequalities is central to ensuring economic and social progress and that reducing entrenched health inequalities is not something that the PHA alone can achieve. In 2015 the Royal Society of...

Our health and social care system is once again awash with a series of reviews. This continuous review syndrome has been used as a smokescreen to avoid the radical change necessary to produce a public health system to meet the needs of the people. Meanwhile...

This conference notes that 30,000 men in GB are living with terminal prostrate cancer but are not being offered enough care and support to combat the disease. This Conference instructs the NIC to join with other interested organisations to obtain from the...

This Conference is concerned at the continued under-funding of the NHS. This is putting lives at risk and is causing Patients’ anxiety and distress in particular when treatment is cancelled. The underfunding has resulted in the local NHS trusts having to...