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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.
With respect to the Member, she has not altered her remarks on the back of what I have said. I have given the Member two examples. Indeed, in my opening remarks, I gave an example that involved a therapist sitting down and engaging in pseudoscientific therapy, linking an individual's sexual orientation to the…
I thank the Member for giving way and for her engagement in a pre-legislative scrutiny session with all members of the Communities Committee, which was really constructive. She talks about gaps. There are two gaps, which have already been identified and stood up by the case studies and evidence that have been…
I thank the Member for giving way. How you distinguish between coercive behaviour and difficult and challenging conversations is an important issue. That is a legitimate point of debate at all stages of the Bill. From my perspective, given the definition that we have employed, the individual in question would have to…
I thank the Member for giving way. At the moment, if a parent has a child who is 16 years old, and that parent grounds, disciplines or engages in normal and ordinary parental control of that child, that behaviour could, in theory, be tested against existing domestic abuse legislation. Can the Member point to one…
I appreciate that the Member is being generous. For the avoidance of doubt and to give the Minister absolute clarity, that may mean discussing an amendment at Consideration Stage, but this is not Consideration Stage. This is the Second Stage, and we are considering the principles of the Bill. I have said that the…
I genuinely wonder whether the Minister has listened at all in the debate or in the engagements that we have had over the media, because, time and time again, I have explained the drafting structure of the Bill. I understand that the Minister cannot wrap his head around that based on an ordinary meaning of the Bill. I…
Again, the Member is wrong because, in that circumstance, the behaviour would not amount to therapy. Setting that aside, the staff member in question would be making a determination about implementing policy and accessing single-sex spaces on the basis of the person's sex and not their gender. That is not conversion…
I thank the Member for giving way. He has hit on a very important point, which is that mens rea is really difficult to establish in court. There is therefore an incredibly high bar for prosecution, because it has to be proved beyond all reasonable doubt what was in the person's mind when they conducted the act. It has…
I thank the Member for giving way. I suspect that I am going to make this point on a number of occasions over the coming hours, as I did last week. The use of the word "therapy" is deliberate, in that it frames what we are talking about when there is reference to talking therapy, coaching or instructing, or treatment…
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. We are now on day 3 of the debate, and every party has had more than ample opportunity to express their views on the legislation. In line with Standing Order 25, I move that the Question now be put
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline any further actions he is seeking to deliver to address the blue-green algae crisis at Lough Neagh before the end of the 2022-2027 Assembly mandate.
We are in danger of straying into pretty dangerous and offensive territory. There is a difference between a sexual orientation, which is innate, and an impulsive sexual disorder, which people of any sexual orientation can experience. I encourage the Member to look at the World Health Organization's classification of…
Sex addiction and addiction to pornography are classified as sexual disorders, not sexual orientations. That issue is distinct from a person's sexual orientation. In fact, the motivation in that circumstance is not to suppress sexual orientation but to suppress the disorder that the person is struggling with, which is…
Mr Buckley is wrong, and I have already addressed that issue in the debate. We have employed universal definitions, so, just as it would be deemed illegal to act with intent to coerce, to harm or to offer someone therapy that harms them, to forcibly change them and force them to change their identity away from being…