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Miss Deirdre Hargey: Assembly records

All of Miss Deirdre Hargey’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.

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  2. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I have let you in twice, to be fair, and I know that you will come back anyway when you summarise. It is important that the Bill move to Committee Stage, that we allow the proper scrutiny to ensure that it is robust and fit for purpose and where time is given to understand the complexities of the issue, as the Bill's…

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  3. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    If you are sincere, we will see whether you follow through and vote to allow the Bill to go to Committee Stage, where those things can be debated and legislation can be improved. I think that your intent is to knock out the legislation completely because you do not want it to progress. That is in the absence of your…

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  5. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    The thresholds that have to be met for a criminal conviction or a case to proceed are clearly set out in the legislation. If you were sincere about getting the answers, Minister, you would have met the Bill's sponsor over the summer when you had the opportunity to do so. Why did you wait until this stage to raise…

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  6. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    This is an important issue of personal dignity and equality and the urgent, undeniable need to completely ban the cruel, discredited and deeply harmful practice known as conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is an archaic practice rooted in intolerance in the absence of any medical or scientific evidence. That is…

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  7. Debate contribution: Divorce and Dissolution of Civil Partnerships

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Following on from the previous question, Minister, will you outline why you are committed to and believe that it is important to remove fault grounds from divorce and dissolution proceedings?

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  9. Debate contribution: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann

    • Opposition Business

    I had not intended to speak until I heard Matthew and other Members speak. I have a six-year-old niece called Banbha. My mummy was an Irish dancer and always wanted her to get into Irish dancing. She had always said no, but, one week after the fleadh, she joined an Irish dancing school and is now dancing. That shows…

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  10. Debate contribution: Executive Budget

    • Opposition Business

    I find it bonkers that the SDLP is choosing to protect its sister party at Westminster rather than protect the public here. You are proposing for us to agree a Budget that will see huge cuts built into the baseline. We are saying that the baseline is not enough and needs to be enhanced. There are now negotiations at…

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  12. Debate contribution: Executive Budget

    • Opposition Business

    It is easy to go down the dark tunnel to nowhere. However, over the last year or two, we have seen the public-sector transformation board established with £235 million; public sector pay given £688 million; and a Budget sustainability plan achieved with savings of £113 million. Also, there is a fiscal framework, as…

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  14. Debate contribution: Executive Budget

    • Opposition Business

    Thanks very much. I welcome the opportunity to move the Sinn Féin amendment. It is important, as it gets to the core of the Budget challenges and the fundamental issue, which is that we have not received a fair and sustainable funding package. That is a fact recognised not only by the Executive parties but by the…

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  16. Motion or amendment: Agreement on a Budget - Amendment 1

    • Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Agreement on a Budget”

    Agreement on a Budget - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘That this Assembly’ and insert: ‘acknowledges that analysis by the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council points to the comparative underfunding of the Executive versus other devolved regions; supports efforts to secure a fair and sustainable funding settlement from…

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  23. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I will give a bit of clarity, in case you are saying, "A plague o' both your houses". I clearly set out the fact that Sinn Féin supported progressing the FICT proposals to a working group. One party blocked that. Sinn Féin also supports the Bill's moving to the next stage. It is important to point that out.

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  24. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    When I wrote my speech, I was going to say that I welcome the opportunity to speak at Second Stage of this Member's Bill but, over two hours in and with only two Members having spoken, I do not know whether I do. Dealing with flags and emblems is an important issue. That was recognised in the FICT report, which sought…

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  25. Debate contribution: DUP: Attacks on Irish Language, Culture and Identity

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Unfortunately, you did not answer the question. The fleadh showed that Orange culture was represented and respected. Given what you said, and if you are sincere in your words about somebody else's culture, namely Irish, not threatening yours, is your ministerial colleague Gordon Lyons willing to withdraw his legal…

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