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Mr Brian Kingston: Assembly records

All of Mr Brian Kingston’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.

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  1. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I rise as a DUP member of the Justice Committee to comment on the amendments that we have proposed in group 3, which cover a range of matters. Amendment No 70 would repeal offences in the Vagrancy Act 1824. Whilst we accept that people are very rarely arrested or prosecuted just for the offences of rough sleeping or…

    Uncertain: close call Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) Criteria met: Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  2. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. Like Connie, I am a member of the all-party group (APG) on modern slavery and sexual exploitation. The evidence that we have heard about how the internet, which can transform all aspects of life, whether good or bad, has transformed the advertisement of sexual services has been…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  4. Debate contribution: Saintfield Road/Old Ballynahinch Road Junction

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    The Minister will be aware of the need to improve safety and reduce congestion at the York Street interchange in north Belfast. However, we now know that the extra funding secured for that — it was a named project as part of the 2017 confidence-and-supply agreement — was all spent elsewhere. What plans does the…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  5. Debate contribution: Shankill Gospel Hall: Racially Motivated Attack

    • Matter of the Day

    I join others in condemning the appalling arson attack on the former Shankill Gospel Hall in the early hours of Saturday morning. After closing five years ago, the hall was bought recently by a couple who are originally from India, with the intention of turning it into a grocery store specialising in Indian foods. As…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  13. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    The second group of amendments relates to child bail and custody arrangements and the appropriate use of live links. On the arrangements for bail for children, the Bill states that a custody officer must consider the juvenile's characteristics of "age, maturity and needs". As Members have heard, the Justice Committee…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  14. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I will speak as a DUP member of the Committee for Justice, which I joined last September. This Justice Bill is certainly wide-ranging. My colleague Paul Frew reminded us that he had called it "half a Bill", because of the number of clauses and topics that were not ready to be included when the Justice Minister…

    Uncertain: weak signal Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  15. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member. This is an important topic. There are a range of timescales in the Bill — two, three and five years at the bottom end, going up to 25, 50 and 75 years for convictions for the most serious recordable offences — so it is on a scale and is not uniform. For those who are arrested but not charged with a…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  18. Debate contribution: York Street Interchange

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I have learned nothing from the Minister's answer. There has been a failure to deliver not just for North Belfast but for all who sit in the long queues of cars at that key junction at the heart of Northern Ireland's road network. Minister, why was that outcome hidden away until I asked my question for written answer,…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  19. Member's statement: Committee for the Executive Office — 27 May 2026: Witness Comments

    • Members' Statements

    At a meeting of the Committee for the Executive Office held here in Parliament Buildings last Wednesday, a disgraceful allegation was made by Mr Daniel Holder, the director of a group called the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ). His allegation was an injustice that does not stand up to examination and…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  20. Topical question AQT 2395/22-27

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Mr Kingston asked the Minister of Finance, given that, in reply to his recent question for written answer, the Minister confirmed that the £400 million secured for infrastructure projects in the 2017 DUP-Conservative Party confidence-and-supply agreement for "the York Street interchange and other priorities" has been…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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