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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.

452 records match.

  1. Debate contribution: Exclusion of the First Minister from Office under Section 30 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998

    • Assembly Business

    I was born in 1998, the year that the Drumcree dispute was brought to an end and the Good Friday Agreement was signed. It was supposed to be a new start for the community. The people of Northern Ireland were promised not just peace but progress, progress that has never been fully realised because of the poor political…

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  2. Debate contribution: Public Petition: Bus Service Provision in Bleary

    • Assembly Business

    At the outset, I acknowledge how surreal it feels to be getting on with constituency matters, given the difficult position that Northern Ireland finds itself in. Nonetheless, the show must go on. Assembly business must continue, and it is right that it does. Anybody who knows me knows that I am passionate about buses,…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for that intervention, but he has absolutely not been maligned. It is a statement of fact that, in 2021, the Ulster Unionist Party was talking about a union of people and rights for LGBT people. Under Jon Burrows's leadership, that is no longer the case because that party has followed a more…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank Members for their contributions, most of which were thoughtful and constructive, although there were a couple of notable exceptions. All were certainly lively. I want to recognise that Paul Boggs made his maiden speech during the debate. After sitting through this for three or four days — I have lost track of…

    Not qualifying

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Minister for giving way. The Minister and I have talked at length about clause 4 and the clarity that can be provided for parents and all of those things. However, even taking the Minister's interpretation of clause 4 as written, there is clearly an overriding intent around the child's welfare — I do not…

    Not qualifying

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Minister for giving way. That is an important point regarding the tests that are added in the Bill, given that the provision is being applied in a different context. He noted that, in domestic abuse legislation, there is no requirement for there to be intent; it can be simply that the behaviour was likely…

    Not qualifying

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for being generous in giving way. It is an important area, and I agree that it is worthy of scrutiny. The reasons that, during drafting, we included consideration of both what the alleged victim considers their sexual orientation or gender identity to be and what the accused considers those to be…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way and for raising that point. As the Bill sponsor, I have found her contribution so far to be insightful and constructive, and it has been useful for me to listen to her views. On that particular point, the Member is right that an exception for under-16s exists in domestic abuse law.…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. He has been generous in giving way. I have to challenge what he says because it is manifestly untrue. He is right when he asserts that the definition of coercive behaviour is lifted from domestic abuse legislation. We have learned from that legislation. At the moment, that applies…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. Members have been quick to point to organisations, some of which are fairly fringe, that oppose the Bill, but they do not point to the myriad of medical, therapeutic or psychotherapeutic organisations that have supported the banning of conversion therapy. Legitimate therapy is…

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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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…

    Not qualifying

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  20. 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…

    Not qualifying

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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  25. 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…

    Not qualifying

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