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Mr Jonathan Buckley: Assembly records

All of Mr Jonathan Buckley’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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  2. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Will the Member perhaps try to explain how the courts would determine the threshold for "fear", "alarm" and "distress", given that those are inherently subjective terms? What is distress to one person may not be the same as it is to another. Does the Member agree that, if the Bill becomes law, we will see a lot of…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way, because that is a very important point that a lot of Members in the Chamber have sought to dismiss and ignore. Does the Member think that it is disappointing in the extreme that the Bill sponsor is unable to put on the record of the House which gender identities he feels that the…

    Flagged Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues Criteria met: Identity framing, Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. That is an example of a situation in which many parents may well find themselves under the Bill. Will the Member agree that that example would fall not just under clause 8 but under the coercive behaviour provision in clause 5, which at subsection (1)(c) refers to "monitoring the ...…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  6. Debate contribution: Executive Budget

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Minister, I now accept that all Executive parties are fully committed to ensuring and fighting for a fairer funding settlement in Northern Ireland where we are funded to the point of need, but, if the Minister is honest, he will admit that that was not always the case. On mature reflection, does he believe that it was…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I appreciate that it is important for him to have set out from where that definition comes, but I am trying to get to the nub of the question. If the parent believes that they are acting out of love, but the child believes that they are acting in a way that is causing them…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way on that particular point. He has set out that, in a test of reasonableness, a parent could be seen to act from love, compassion and care towards their child. However, when it comes to the particular words in the Bill, such as "coercive behaviour", which was mentioned by the Minister,…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    On a point of order, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I hope that you appreciate that I asked that question genuinely. I have the Bill in front of me, but I am not clear from clause 6 exactly what is entailed. If the Member could outline the number of gender identities that, he believes, the Bill entails, I would…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I note that he said that it should not impact on church leaders or, indeed, parents. That leads me to a point that my colleague Mr Frew raised. Clause 6 — "Sexual orientation and gender identity" — states: "a reference to a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity includes— (a)…

    Flagged Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  21. Debate contribution: Sectarian Murder of Robert Hamill: Failure of the RUC

    • Matter of the Day

    It did not happen. Paragraph 21 states: "they did not in any way condone or collude with attackers". Paragraph 75 states: "we have found no wrongful act or omission which facilitated Robert Hamill's death." That is the fact, Mr O'Dowd. That is in the report. We can talk about the failures of investigation, where there…

    Flagged Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations Criteria met: Identity framing.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  22. Debate contribution: Sectarian Murder of Robert Hamill: Failure of the RUC

    • Matter of the Day

    I am mindful of the sensitivities today, because a family has been mourning the loss of a son and brother, an individual — Robert Hamill — who lost his life in the most brutal and appalling fashion. For that, I remember them today, as I do the many victims across Northern Ireland whose families have empty seats in…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  23. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. He is right, because the Bill is all about empowering the Department for Infrastructure. What goes up and what comes down, and how it is taken down, will be subject to the opinion of the Department. Mr O'Toole said that there was a contradiction, but there is not, because, under…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  25. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member. The leader of the Opposition asked, "How do we take those flags down?". I know that he was here for the debate last week in the House. There is an abundance of legislation in this area: we have terrorism legislation and public order legislation, as well as legislation for local government and for…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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