The Lagan Valley risk assesment report highlighted "considerable" dangers, including difficulties in recruiting surgical staff.
Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson has criticised the minister and said it was a "dark day".
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To the south, it borders the Lagan Valley constituency and to the east, runs almost to Belfast Lough.
Lagan Valley assembly member Basil McCrea has received a formal warning from the Ulster Unionist Party's disciplinary panel.
Speaking on BBC NI's The View, the Lagan Valley MLA said the sooner the site was re-developed, the better.
Speaking on the BBC's The View, the Lagan Valley MLA said the sooner the site is re-developed, the better.
Edwin Poots of the DUP and the UUP's Basil McCrea were elected in Lagan Valley on the first count.
Lagan Valley Hospital was without water for "a number of hours" on Thursday.
"Surely this needs to be considered alongside the decision to withdraw the emergency services from Lagan Valley, " Mr Donaldson said.
The South Eastern Trust plans to move its acute inpatient wards at both hospitals to Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn.
Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson, who is fiercely opposed to the Agreement, said the focus should be on issues not personalities.
Noel and Nevin were pronounced dead at the scene, while Graham was taken to Lagan Valley Hospital where he later died.
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However, the Lagan Valley MP would not be drawn on reports that he is to challenge David Trimble's leadership of the party.
The DUP's Jonathan Craig asked about poor broadband coverage in rural areas with particular emphasis on Hillsborough in his Lagan Valley constituency.
The decision to strip acute services from Lagan Valley Hospital was made following a risk assessment received by the Down Lisburn Trust last autumn.
The Lagan Valley MP said the electorate was very "concerned and frustrated" with current direction of the peace process and on-going concessions to republicans.
Lagan Valley MLA Mr McCrea and South Down MLA Mr McCallister have not ruled out setting up a new party to challenge the UUP and DUP.
Mr Bell, Ulster Unionist assemblyman for Lagan Valley, was speaking at the launch of the PAC's report The Administration of Income Support Benefit at Stormont on Tuesday.
Lagan Valley assembly member Basil McCrea has said he is taking time to consider his response to a formal warning from the Ulster Unionist Party's disciplinary panel.
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The Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson took to the BBC Radio Ulster airwaves and said he would judge republicans by their actions rather than by their words.
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Lagan Valley MLA Basil McCrea has said it is likely that he and John McCallister will set up a new party to challenge the DUP and the UUP.
The DUP Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Dondaldson said it was a very difficult position for the police to be in and that progress needed to be made on parades.
The Lagan Valley MLA Basil McCrea is due to face an internal disciplinary hearing for publicly criticising his party's stance over flying the union flag at Belfast City Hall.
Patients and staff in Lagan Valley Hospital in Lisburn and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast were affected by the virus before Christmas, putting 100 beds out of use.
Hardline Ulster Unionist Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson accused the government of "speaking with a forked tongue" and warned it would be "absolute madness" to push ahead with the idea.
The Lagan Valley MP who has consistently opposed the Good Friday Agreement said the meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council would give the party the opportunity to review progress on decommissioning.
Speaking on BBC Radio Ulster on Sunday, Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson said if the SDLP wanted to preserve the assembly and other political institutions set up under the Good Friday Agreement, it should support the UUP motion.
In a statement withdrawing their support from the current process, Lagan Valley MP Jeffrey Donaldson and South Antrim MP David Burnside made it clear they thought the current negotiations had only served to feed nationalists' and republicans' "insatiable demands".
When asked by the BBC if this was a coincidence a spokesperson said in the case of Lisburn it was considered that the development might be linked to the Lagan Valley hospital and would have greater impact than a smaller project.
But then the man who thought the two MLAs were on the right track added "and you can say that came from a republican", which also was not necessarily that heartening if you are planning to canvass for votes around unionist areas of Lagan Valley or South Down.
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