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.
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It is really important to put on the record that none of those who lost their life or was injured was making illegal manoeuvres on the road or demonstrating bad road sense. Does the Member agree that it was the design of the road that caused those injuries and deaths?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Roads: A1 Junctions Phase 2 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Roads: A1 Junctions Phase 2
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Roads: A1 Junctions Phase 2 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Roads: A1 Junctions Phase 2
First of all, I thank my colleague Eóin Tennyson for securing this really important Adjournment debate. It is important because we are having a life-saving discussion, so thank you for that. I also thank the Minister for coming to the House to respond to our concerns. Minister, I hope that, in your response, we hear…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Roads: A1 Junctions Phase 2 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Roads: A1 Junctions Phase 2
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I hope that there is no shouting at me, as I am deaf in one ear and do not hear great. I am not surprised that there is a bit of Brit-bashing being thrown into the debate, as that is always the case. We seem, however, to forget — Members over there have certainly forgotten — that Irish…
Decided on a second assessment. Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal US and Israeli Attacks on Iran Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal US and Israeli Attacks on Iran
I beg to move amendment No 1:
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal US and Israeli Attacks on Iran Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal US and Israeli Attacks on Iran
I am happy enough, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. Thank you.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Crime and Policing Bill: Legislative Consent Motion Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Crime and Policing Bill: Legislative Consent Motion
I thank the Minister for his answer. I fully accept that he is doing an awful lot on rates, but he will know that chapels of rest are places of religious worship in the same way in which churches are, and churches are exempt. Importantly, chapels of rest are used by an awful lot of people who have lost young children,…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rates: Chapels of Rest Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rates: Chapels of Rest
The Minister laid it out well that some people are gaming the system. I sometimes wonder whether we should think outside the box. To speed up justice, we should make this clear: if you are guilty and you plead guilty early, you will get 33% off your sentence or maybe even 35% or a little bit more; but, if you delay…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage
Thank you, Minister. That is good news. It is the very point that I raised. We can look at these things. If it turns out that what we are doing is right and proper and the best way to get things to work, that is what we will do. However, if it can be improved and can give families more confidence, it is right to do…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage
Again, I thank the Minister for her intervention. It is a really important discussion piece, and I have raised it before. If we had been able to challenge sentences in the Magistrates' Court previously, we could have dealt earlier with some of the issues facing us. I have said before in the Chamber that, up until…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage
I still think that it is a discussion that needs to be had, because Northern Ireland is the outlier in these islands on something that is important. I welcome Part 7, including clause 41 and the increase in sentences from 14 years to 20 years for death or injury through dangerous driving or careless driving while…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Minister for that. In some ways, I agree with her about the sentencing review, but the outcomes of that will not then move into the next mandate. As good as she is, she may not be the Minister in the next mandate. In fact, according to some, you may not even be in the Executive.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage
I welcome the Bill and thank the Minister for introducing it. The Minister was very clear and concise when she outlined the Bill's purpose, and I agree an awful lot with the Committee Chair's words on what he saw as some of the issues with the Bill. It is incumbent on us all now to work together on the Bill. Of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Justice (Sentencing etc) Bill: Second Stage
Illegal US and Israeli Attacks on Iran - Amendment 1 Leave out all after first ‘international law’ and insert: ‘and condemns Iranian-sponsored global terrorism through Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, as well as the many human rights violations against its citizens in breach of the…
Assessment details for Motion or amendment: Illegal US and Israeli Attacks on Iran - Amendment 1 Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: Illegal US and Israeli Attacks on Iran - Amendment 1
To ask the Minister for the Economy to outline any quantifiable effects of the conflict in the Middle East on the Northern Ireland economy.
Assessment details for Oral question AQO 3347/22-27 Official Assembly record for Oral question AQO 3347/22-27
To ask the Minister of Finance to detail (i) whether there are any dispensations in place to permit a burial or cremation to take place at a weekend without a GRO21 having been issued; (ii) any guidance that has been provided to local councils regarding the requirement for a GRO21 before burial or cremation; and (ii)…
Assessment details for Written question AQW 42242/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 42242/22-27
To ask the Minister of Finance whether he has considered granting chapels of rest and church sanctuaries exceptions from business rates, in line with the exemptions provided for places of public religious worship.
Assessment details for Written question AQW 42241/22-27 Official Assembly record for Written question AQW 42241/22-27
I thank the Minister for that answer. The Local Government Staff Commission has played a really important role in overseeing the various councils from way back in 1972. Given some of the HR issues that we still have in our councils, what oversight mechanisms will be put in place to replace the commission, as opposed…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Local Government Staff Commission Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Local Government Staff Commission
Mr Beattie asked the Minister for Communities to give an update on the situation with the Local Government Staff Commission, which is due to be wound up in March next year after more than 50 years, given that no dissolution order has yet been laid.
Assessment details for Topical question AQT 2156/22-27 Official Assembly record for Topical question AQT 2156/22-27
Since this mandate resumed, the Minister of Justice has lectured many of the parties here about attempts to interfere in PSNI operational matters. I particularly remember one spicy and spiky moment between my friend opposite and the Minister on that issue. It is clear, however, that the Justice Minister, as leader of…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Minister of Justice: PSNI Operational Matters Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Minister of Justice: PSNI Operational Matters
Political Interference in the PSNI
Assessment details for Other tabled business: Political Interference in the PSNI Official Assembly record for Other tabled business: Political Interference in the PSNI
To ask the Minister of Finance whether he will consider removing rates paid on funeral directors' chapels of rest.
Assessment details for Oral question AQO 3305/22-27 Official Assembly record for Oral question AQO 3305/22-27
As we all debate global politics, few will know the name Rosmund Evans. Rosmund was not an academic, scientist or scholar; she cleaned my constituency office. We never really saw Rosmund during the day, because she cleaned the office at nighttime after we had done a day's work. She emptied the bins, hoovered and…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Rosmund Evans Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Rosmund Evans
War is not a video game. Some of us may be looking at the situation in a voyeuristic way as we see it play out on television. However, let us not minimise the effect that it is having on the people of the region. It is having a real effect on innocent people throughout the region. It is right to debate the matter,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Middle East: Escalating Conflict Involving Iran and the Implications for the United Kingdom Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Middle East: Escalating Conflict Involving Iran and the Implications for the United Kingdom
To ask the Minister of Justice to outline how her Department engages with the Home Office to ensure foreign nationals that have been given a custodial sentence of 12 months or more are not released back into the community at the end of their sentence, but surrendered to the Foreign National Offenders Returns Command…
Assessment details for Oral question AQO 3230/22-27 Official Assembly record for Oral question AQO 3230/22-27
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