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Mrs Diane Dodds: Assembly records

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

334 records match.

  1. Debate contribution: Exclusion of the First Minister from Office under Section 30 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998

    • Assembly Business

    It is hard to start after the kind of gaslighting of unionism that we have just heard. Nevertheless, the debate is really important for the House to have, because the rule of law is fundamental to any society. At the heart of the debate is this question: can lawmakers be lawbreakers? That is what is at the heart of…

    Awaiting analysis

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  2. Debate contribution: A5: Court of Appeal Judgement

    • Ministerial Statement

    Thank you for your statement, Minister. You will not be surprised to know that I was going to ask you about the A1. On a slightly different note, however, after the McAlinden ruling, I understand that property owners spent money on reinstating fences and making good land that had been taken over by contractors. Will…

    Awaiting analysis

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  4. Debate contribution: Health and Social Care Transformation

    • Private Members' Business

    As I understand it, Professor Bengoa will be back in Northern Ireland at the Northern Ireland Confederation for Health and Social Care (NICON) conference to set out what needs to be done, and I am sure that he hopes to hear about what has been done. I looked at the Department's website to find out what had happened…

    Not qualifying

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  7. Debate contribution: Failure to Agree a Budget

    • Questions for Urgent Oral Answer

    Minister, I was interested in the question asked by your colleague Linda Dillon, who has, sadly, departed the Chamber. She seemed to imply that the cost of policing the Garvaghy Road was the fault of Orangemen. They asked only for a 15-minute parade with 35 Orangemen. That is another example of Sinn Féin's inversion…

    Awaiting analysis

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  8. Debate contribution: First Minister — Pledge of Office

    • Questions for Urgent Oral Answer

    Today, the Court of Appeal has reserved judgement on the unlawfulness of what is going on on the Garvaghy Road. Will you ask residents on the Garvaghy Road — the few residents who there are — and the people whom you have bussed in to go home and await the judgement of the court rather than continue to break the law?

    Awaiting analysis

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  9. Debate contribution: Armed Forces Covenant and Armed Forces Bill

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Thank you, deputy First Minister, for your unequivocal support for our armed forces; it is important for us to hear that today. Sinn Féin's position seems to be a denial of rights, particularly the rights of people whom they do not like or do not want to have rights. Will you agree that the denial of rights to members…

    Not analysed

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  13. Debate contribution: Parades Commission: Drumcree Determination

    • Matter of the Day

    Before I address the remarks of the Members opposite, I will bring the House back to the point of remembering that the determination was lawful. It is a determination that was tested in the courts. It is a determination that has the backing of the law in Northern Ireland: that 35 men can walk, with their collarettes,…

    Awaiting analysis

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. You have talked about the issue of vexatious claims and the law being vague and not precise enough. However, there is also the issue of this law striking fear into people who are practising in a conventional therapist's way. I have quoted this interesting point a number of times —I…

    Awaiting analysis

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  15. Debate contribution: Daisy Hill Hospital: Inpatient Maternity Services

    • Ministerial Statement

    I thank the Minister. Many of those listening to the statement today, and those who have read the trust's statement earlier, will find that there is not a lot new in it. We have known about the staffing pressures at Daisy Hill for a very long time. Indeed, the document reads like a case for consolidating services in…

    Awaiting analysis

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  17. Debate contribution: Facial Palsy

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Minister, I have constituents who come to me with this very perplexing problem. Many of them have to pay for their own injections to relieve their facial palsy symptoms. That is extremely taxing on those individuals. You spoke about funding that had been allocated by the South Eastern Trust for the treatment of facial…

    Awaiting analysis

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

    • Private Members' Business

    The Member mentions Dr Hilary Cass. There are good things in her review; there are other things that I disagree with. However, regarding puberty blockers, in her review, she said that medical intervention has taken over in treatment provision and that exploration has been made synonymous with conversion therapy when…

    Uncertain Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I now declare that I need to make some progress on the Bill. The Member talks about clause 7, which is a particularly difficult clause for counsellors, therapists, parents of faith, pastors and teachers. Faith is about embracing faith, but it is also about directional living. It is very difficult to see how, in…

    Qualifying Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging. Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues

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

    • Private Members' Business

    That is absolutely correct. As I said, clause 2(1)(b) states: "if ... the person has the intent" — how is that to be measured? — "of changing or suppressing the sexual orientation or gender identity". Again, how is that to be measured? How do we measure "fear", "alarm" and "distress"? It is important that we know the…

    Qualifying Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging. Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    That is why it is really important to have the debate and look at the Bill as a whole, so that we understand what the Bill could impose on families in Northern Ireland. I was thinking about legislation when thinking about the Bill. In examining any Bill, it is important to ask whether the draft legislation is…

    Awaiting analysis

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for his intervention and for expanding the point, which is really important. I think that the Sinn Féin Member opposite, who is no longer in her seat, just wanted to shout the word "homophobia" and nothing else. That is a pity because I have tried my best to make my contribution to the debate with…

    Awaiting analysis

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

    • Private Members' Business

    That is a really important point, and it is at the heart of what we are doing here. We are debating legislation, and the Member is proposing clauses to a Bill that will criminalise people on the basis of something that is subjective and changing. That is no basis for legislation.

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

    • Private Members' Business

    Given that a lot of the information I have read refers to multiple genders and changing genders etc, that is a non-answer and evasion by proposer of the Bill. When we consider legislation that will potentially criminalise parents, teachers, pastors, youth leaders, football team coaches — everybody and anybody; even…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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