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Mr Eóin Tennyson: Assembly records

All of Mr Eóin Tennyson’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 thank the Member for giving way. Maybe it will reassure him to know that he would be as entitled to get up in the Chamber and read the passage that he has just read after the Bill passed as he was before, because, first, it is not a conversion practice; it is not targeted at any individual. It is reading scripture,…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I know that there has been some discontent about the extent to which we have been able to discuss gender identity, but, at this stage, it feels to me as though we have been discussing it for hours. I have to say that, from my perspective, it is starting to get a little tedious, given…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. Over the course of the debate, I have said that the question of the harm threshold is a legitimate policy question. That does not mean that there is not a coherent test of harm in the Bill. As the Member will know, this definition of harm is lifted from the domestic abuse…

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  6. Debate contribution: Parades Commission: Drumcree Determination

    • Matter of the Day

    People outside this Building are in utter despair that this is where we are as a society this afternoon. People who are old enough to remember the Drumcree dispute are traumatised because they are reliving the hurt and pain of that period and having to sit down with their children — children who should never have…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. She has been really generous in taking interventions, and I thank her for that. On Mr Buckley's point about consent, we have made a deliberate choice not to make consent a defence for the purposes of the legislation. That is because, as Sian Mulholland referenced, people who come…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. It is not the case that anything other than affirmation is acceptable but that coercion, harm and pseudoscientific therapy is unacceptable. That is a principle that, I thought, everybody in the Chamber agreed on, but I am beginning to question that. The exclusions in clause 7 that…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. There is a contradiction, because, in his contribution last week, Peter Martin suggested, in effect, that the prevalence was so low and the size of the LGBT community so small that we should not worry about it. I am not quoting Peter Martin directly, but that was the thrust of his…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. The "No right to claim trial by jury" clause has been raised a couple of times. I have already set out that I did not initiate that proposal: it came about as a result of engagement with the offences and penalties team in the Department of Justice, who advised that it would be…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I appreciate the Member's being generous and giving way. I can answer that point: it is conduct that amounts to therapy or coercive behaviour carried out with the intent to suppress or change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity in a way that results in physical or psychological harm. That is the behaviour…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. We have considered the convention rights in developing the Bill. We have received correspondence from the Equality Commission, and we have engaged with the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. We have looked at the equality assessments undertaken at pre-consultation stage by the…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I have not finished. As I have said, the test before us is not whether a term is contested; it is whether the courts could interpret it and apply it proportionately. I am glad that most of our judiciary have a bit more wit than Members when it comes to interpreting those terms and do not come up with such ludicrous…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. Mr Gaston talked about this being "ludicrous" and "folly": some of the contributions have been ludicrous and folly. For Members to talk in such dismissive and trivialising terms about people identifying as inanimate objects and as cats and dogs is ridiculous and deeply offensive. I…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I am sorry; I misconstrued the Member's question. The Education Minister — Paul Givan; he is speaking as a private Member — is correct in that there is a constraint. It has to be a regulatory body under section 25 of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002. The exclusion is specifically…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    It would have to be by resolution of the Assembly. The Minister would have to lay secondary legislation for the Committee and the Assembly to approve.

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for that question. That clause would give delegated powers to the Department of Health to update the list at any time, should the Minister and the Department see fit. We have not restricted it or made it time-bound. We want to give the Department the flexibility to amend the list and bring in other…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. She has referred to the example of a young person wanting to access puberty blockers. Take a parent with a teenager who is 16 at the moment. They want to access puberty blockers, but the parent says no. The definition of "coercive and controlling behaviour" is already in domestic…

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