Nolan Show: Sinn Fein's view on DUP's Gay blood ban

Debate surrounding Edwin Poots and his decision to ban blood from Gay people. Edwin Poots is squandering public money in the pursuit of a personal agenda against unmarried and same sex couples, diverting essential funding from vital and vastly over-stretched NHS services which benefit the entire population. Mr Poots should resign or be removed from his post as Health Minister to end this wanton action.
While public health and social care services struggle to make ends meet, Mr Poots has spent, to date, £17,000 in an effort to ensure unmarried and same sex couples are denied the opportunity to adopt children in turn, denying children the best opportunity to a loving and stable family environment.
Justifying his action with 7 year old data which, by his own department's admission, is flawed in the very way in which it was obtained, he intends to continue this campaign at the High Court, with the approximate final cost being £40,000.
Mr Poots has also wasted £37,000 in ensuring gay men who wish to donate blood are denied from doing so. This is at complete odds with blood donation advice in every other part of the UK and demonstrates utter incompetence and complete disregard for the public purse and more importantly, the NHS he has stewardship over.
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I wonder if there was a loyalist politician on holiday in England who fell gravely ill and needed an immediate blood transfusion and, they had an extremely rare blood group, when the only blood available of that particular type was taken from a Gay man, would they refuse the transfusion and die?