He was making a statement to the assembly following the decision of the Belfast Trust to close the emergency department of the Belfast City Hospital on a temporary basis.
Campaigners fighting plans to close accident and emergency departments in north-west London have handed a petition in to Downing Street.
Emergency services were called to Pine Close, in Brixham, in April 2010 after reports that a baby had stopped breathing.
ONEMI, the Chilean National Emergency Office, has been in close contact with the seismologists, trying to prepare for a future earthquake that could strike anytime.
The accident and emergency department is not going to close.
And across in Mid Sussex some 10, 000 people are taking to the streets to try to persuade the relevant health quangos not to close the Accident and Emergency Department in Hayward's Heath.
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Independent MLA Jim Allister wanted to know if this announcement was designed to provide a "soft landing" for what was intended to be a permanent decision to close the City accident and emergency department.
The hospital spent so much on things like emergency aid for border crossers it had to close its skilled nursing and maternity wards.
However, that unanimous decision came despite severe criticism of the department's handling of its finances and its decision in November to close wards and postpone non-emergency operations.
Italy's elections close the door on a year of emergency government that was ushered in during the fall of 2011, when investors led a mass sell-off of Italian bonds, threatening the country's solvency.
Some emergency medical technician handbooks even describe how to use duct tape to close up sucking chest wounds like gunshots.
Last week's TUC conference supported an emergency motion from the CWU, which warned that hundreds of post offices would close and the universal postal service would end if the business was sold off.
Torquay almost clinched it when Sills had a header tipped onto the post by Bartlett, who only joined Cambridge on an emergency loan on Saturday, and strike partner Benyon fired over the rebound from close range.
President Bush is close to agreeing import quotas and tariffs on foreign steel, it says, and the emergency loan could have been secured with the right effort.
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