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Mr Doug Beattie MC: Assembly records
All of Mr Doug Beattie MC’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail the annual cost of maintaining the separation of paramilitary prisoners in HMP Maghaberry, in each of the last three years.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the steps her Department has taken to review the prisoner pre-release legislation; and (ii) what changes will be made.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the amount her Department has spent on His Majesties Prisons and Probation Board over the last three years; and (ii) the number of terrorist related offenders currently being supervised by her Department.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline (i) what mechanisms are in place to engage with the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed; and (i) what delays are encountered by Northern Ireland not being able to engage directly to the EU.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) any discussions she has had with the Northern Ireland Prison Service in relation to safeguarding issues, specifically in circumstances where victims of abuse who subsequently enter the criminal justice system are confronted with their abuser in prison, and (ii) whether the…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the business plan to grow the Police Service of Northern Ireland workforce to 8,000 officers; and (i) how long it will take to grow the service to 7,500, given the plan for the next three years is to grow the workforce to 7,000 and then stabilise that workforce for a…
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the personal and professional development training undertaken by the Northern Ireland Judiciary over the last five years, as laid out by the Judicial Studies Board; and (i) the attendance rate at each training event.
To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) what action she has taken, following the report by the Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland on Transforming the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland - A Strategic Overview; and (ii) what vision and strategic priorities have been set following the report.
Committee Membership (Revised Wording) That Mr Jon Burrows be appointed as a member of the Committee for Education; and that Mr Robbie Butler replace Mr Andy Allen as a member of the Business Committee.
I thank the Minister for his answer. I am genuinely concerned about our historical heritage. In my constituency, the Waringstown grange and rath and the Ballintaggart court tomb, which was nearly 2,000 years old, were both ripped up. Of course, I have raised in the House many times the issue of Knock Iveagh, where a…
I thank the Member for giving way. I do not disagree with an awful lot of what you have said; in fact, what you have said is in our amendment. What is key is that we believe that every life, Israeli or Palestinian, is equal, and the motion does not say that. Will you join Sinn Féin and the SDLP in voting for a motion…
FlaggedSectarianism, hate crime and community relationsCriteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging.
I wrote an extensive section for my contribution that highlighted Sinn Féin's support for global terrorism, including support for Libya's Colonel Gaddafi and Yasser Arafat of the PLO, and how it is that that drives Sinn Féin's bias in the region and its ideology. I decided against including it, however. I instead…
FlaggedSectarianism, hate crime and community relationsCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.
Thank you, Mr Speaker. What is happening in the Middle East is a tragedy, as are other conflicts right across the globe, many of which receive little or no recognition. Thousands of people are being killed and injured right across the Middle East. Families are being separated and displaced. There is forced hunger and…
Minister, I welcome what you have just said, but it does not take Magistrates' Court sentencing into account. Can the scheme be extended in any way to take in the Magistrates' Court? We are seeing similar sentences when cases are referred to there.
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will finish off by talking about the Sentencing Council for England and Wales. If you go on to the website, you see that it is extremely clear on how sentences are arrived at. The judge gives a judgement in terms that can be understood by everybody and breaks it down. If you are in any…
I beg to move Thank you, Mr Speaker. Justice must not only be done but be seen to be done. More than that, people must have confidence that our justice system works. It is clear, however, that confidence in our criminal justice system is being eroded daily. Part of the problem, though certainly not all of it, is our…