'The wider detrimental impact on our young people with no Executive or Assembly sitting to finalise legislation will sadly see some of our most vulnerable children hardest hit.'
An overhaul of Northern Ireland's outdated adoption laws and reforms to health and social care have been stalled due to Stormont's collapse.
Stormont's five main parties have jointly written to the Northern Ireland secretary urging him to intervene to process the opt-out organ donation law during the political stalemate. It had been described by former Health Minister Robin Swann as among the most important bills brought to the Assembly.The Lagan Valley MLA said: "The wider detrimental impact on our young people with no Executive or Assembly sitting to finalise legislation will sadly see some of our most vulnerable children hardest hit.
It was to be named Daithi's Law after six-year-old Daithi MacGabhann, from Belfast, who is on the organ transplant waiting list and whose family have campaigned for the new legislation. From the Northern Ireland Protocol to other thorny issues inside Stormont and exclusive interviews - we’ve got you covered.On Thursday, the larger Stormont parties announced they had united to write to Mr Heaton-Harris asking him to step in and legislate to allow Daithi’s Law to be enacted as soon as possible.
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