Watch: Full controversial Health Committee briefing

Health Minister Edwin Poots warned the Stormont Health Committee on Wednesday (September 3) that if the £160m he asked for in the latest budget monitoring round isn’t stumped up there will be serious consequences.

Watch the full briefing, which is chaired by Londonderry Sinn Féin MLA Maeve McLaughlin, above.

The evidence session featured blunt exchanges between Mr Poots and Ms McLaughlin and also between SDLP MLA Fearghal McKinney and the Chief Medical Officer Michael McBride.