All of Mrs Naomi Long’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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The first thing that I can commit to is to ensuring that every leader in every part of the justice system has a copy of the report and is able to reflect on its content. The Member makes the valid point that people are often referred to as "charming" or that they seemed to be reliable or trustworthy or an upstanding…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Katie Simpson Review Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Katie Simpson Review
I think that we all agree in principle, with the benefit of hindsight, that the decision to permit bail on that occasion was deeply flawed. However, such a decision is made without the benefit of hindsight, and it falls to the PSNI and the courts and not to me as Justice Minister. As I said in my statement, it is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Katie Simpson Review Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Katie Simpson Review
I thank the Member for her diligence and commitment to pressing this issue, even, at times, when others would have been happier had she not done so. It has shown real commitment and courage on her part that she stood up for Katie and for those who loved her and to find the truth. I share the Member's concerns about…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Katie Simpson Review Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Katie Simpson Review
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. We all know the name "Katie Simpson". Regrettably, we do so because of her senseless, untimely and tragic death. We also know the name "Jonathan Creswell", a convicted abuser and the man charged with Katie's rape and murder, who was found dead at home on the second day of his criminal…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Katie Simpson Review Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Katie Simpson Review
I recognise that the Executive as a whole will not receive sufficient levels of additional funding during the multi-year Budget period, and I am incredibly conscious of the significant pressures that Departments face and the difficult decisions that we will have to take as an Executive. However, it is extremely…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Multi-year Budget Plan Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Multi-year Budget Plan
Given the late stage of the mandate and the fact that we are now at a point when the introduction of new ideas for legislation is probably beyond the capacity of any Department to take forward in this mandate, it is unlikely that that would come to fruition quickly. There are things that can be done quickly to achieve…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: E-scooters on Roads and Footpaths Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: E-scooters on Roads and Footpaths
Campaigns on the use of e-scooters and their legality is a matter for the Department for Infrastructure rather than the Department of Justice. I have, of course, during our regular meetings, had conversations with the PSNI about the concerns that have been expressed to me in this House and elsewhere about the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: E-scooters on Roads and Footpaths Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: E-scooters on Roads and Footpaths
— simply does not stack up against the evidence.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Serious Assault on a Prison Officer Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Serious Assault on a Prison Officer
First, I answered the question and said that I did not believe that my regular meetings, on an almost daily basis, were a matter for airing in the House due to the sensitivities of the conversations and the potential impact on the individuals involved. Nor can I respond to every piece of news that is going to be put…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Serious Assault on a Prison Officer Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Serious Assault on a Prison Officer
I am in contact with my colleagues in the Prison Service on an almost daily basis. I visit the prisons on a regular basis. I do not feel that it is appropriate to, on every occasion, discuss on the Floor what I discuss in those interactions at an operational level, nor is it necessarily the wish of the individual…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Serious Assault on a Prison Officer Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Serious Assault on a Prison Officer
Through the organised crime task force, there are regular meetings between officials in the PSNI and an Garda Síochána, and those meetings have been very fruitful. As a matter of routine, there is cooperative working not just in border communities but further afield. That is very helpful, because we recognise that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Organised Crime and Paramilitary Activity: Cross-border Cooperation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Organised Crime and Paramilitary Activity: Cross-border Cooperation
— for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration and I were recently at a conference that dealt with those issues.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Organised Crime and Paramilitary Activity: Cross-border Cooperation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Organised Crime and Paramilitary Activity: Cross-border Cooperation
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to place on record in the House my absolute abhorrence towards those who forced a person, at the point of a gun, to drive a live device through Lurgan, placing everyone in the community from Kilwilkie to the police station at significant risk. The trauma inflicted on the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Organised Crime and Paramilitary Activity: Cross-border Cooperation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Organised Crime and Paramilitary Activity: Cross-border Cooperation
With your permission, Mr Speaker, I wish to answer questions 4, 10 and 15 together. It is incredibly disheartening that I am, once again, updating the Chamber on the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) service withdrawal. The ever-decreasing resources at our disposal should not be focused on mitigating avoidable levels of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Crown Court Legal Aid Dispute: Progression of Cases Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Crown Court Legal Aid Dispute: Progression of Cases
First, I thank the Chief Constable for asking Rachel Langdale to come in and do the review that she did, because that was welcome oversight. The best disinfectant is sunlight. I therefore believe that the openness and transparency with which the Chief Constable has addressed the issue is important. I have no doubt…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls
We do a number of things, such as perpetrator programmes. There are opt-in perpetrator programmes for those who, for example, are on remand in the prison system for domestic abuse-related offences. They have the option of taking such a course and engaging in that process. Once people are there as sentenced prisoners,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls
That has been raised with me and is something that causes many of us concern. In recent months and years, we have seen situations in which one co-parent has taken the life of the other co-parent, leaving their children, in most cases, without a mother. We have seen the distress that is caused to families when that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls
I have introduced a diverse range of measures aimed at addressing sexual offending and coercive control and domestic abuse, and further measures are planned that will, I believe, tackle online and technologically aided abuse. I recognise, however, that legislation alone will not bring an end to the violence and abuse…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls
First, I advise the Member not to speak on behalf of all women on this issue — that is the first thing — so I do not know where his saying "more than 50% of the population" comes from. Secondly, what we are doing here is trying to protect vulnerable women and girls from domestic abuse, but my Department is also trying…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls
With your permission, Mr Speaker, I will answer questions 3 and 8 together. I ask you to indulge me with extra time, as it is quite an involved answer. The Department of Justice is responsible for a number of actions in the cross-departmental strategic framework to end violence against women and girls (EVAWG) delivery…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence against Women and Girls
I have been in contact, but no Executive member has yet been asked to agree their allocation, and it is not adequate to meet the needs of the justice system over the next three years. I have been open about that and put the figures on the record. To take a one-year snapshot, at the end of this year, we would be…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention
First, where officers are assaulted, it is standard policy that the Prison Service will support them in taking those responsible to court. It is not literally a " Be in Jail Free" card, in this case, where people can assault whomever they wish in the Prison Service and expect that not to have consequences. All of our…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention
Thank you. I stopped because I assumed that the Member was not interested in the answer, given that he was interrupting. There are issues with drugs in prisons. However, we have introduced, for example, full body scanning to reduce the amount of illicit material being smuggled into the prison. That is helpful, and we…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention
If he is not —.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention
— with addiction and drugs in prisons.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Northern Ireland Prison Service: Recruitment and Retention
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