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Ms Emma Sheerin: Assembly records

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

684 records match, page 4 of 28.

  1. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    Like the Member who has just spoken, I and my colleagues in Sinn Féin will vote in favour of amendment No 96, which we believe to be a common-sense amendment to increase safety provisions for prisoners as they return to the outside world, and against amendment No 97, which is a deliberate and politically motivated…

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  2. Debate contribution: Jeffrey Donaldson: Rape and Child Sexual Abuse Conviction

    • Matter of the Day

    Yesterday, we saw former Member of this House Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty of child sexual abuse charges, including rape. Our thoughts are with his victims, who have suffered more than any of us could ever comprehend. I want to commend them for the strength and dignity that they have shown, both in coming forward to…

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  3. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Minister. Again, we are hearing from across the Committee that the need for increased clarity is the barrier to people's supporting the clause. There is lots in what you have said that provides food for thought and something for us to consider, because we feel that ensuring that people have access to legal…

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  4. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for her intervention. I do not think that there is any disagreement in the Committee on the objective and what you have set out there. I do not think that we have heard disagreement from any Member who has spoken thus far. I take your point that it is not explicitly about accessing the service,…

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  5. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I want to outline Sinn Féin's position on these amendments. Like the Member who spoke previously, we are in agreement with the Minister on opposing the inclusion of clause 28, but we have similar concerns as my constituency colleague about the proposed new clause 27A. It goes back to a lot of the rationale that has…

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  6. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I will speak on behalf of my party. Sinn Féin will support amendment Nos 92 to 95. They represent important, progressive reforms to our justice system, which we obviously support. We have probably seen far too little of that in recent days. At their heart is the principle that our justice system has to hold people…

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  7. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    That is just for the record. You made a comment about providing us with expertise or advice. We are the outlier. MACR is lower here than in 75% of European states, and the world has not caved in in any of those places. We have advice going back as far as 2011 to increase the age of criminal responsibility, and we have…

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  8. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    In fairness to the Member, it is not in his nature to talk in extremities, and he has not been doing so, but the argument that he is making is based on extreme cases. We know that law that is made on the basis of extreme cases is not good law. If the law covers only extreme cases but punishes all children, including…

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  9. Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. There are a couple of parts to my intervention. First, the Commissioner Designate for Victims of Crime supports the amendment, and she is well versed in the needs and experiences of victims here. Secondly, as a woman, I can say with absolute clarity, because every woman whom I have…

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