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All of Mrs Naomi Long’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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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill: Second Stage
The Member is always very generous with giving way. It is helpful, however, to answer the questions as we go, rather than to stockpile them for the end of the debate. It will always be for the judge to decide the extent of disclosure. Providing the witness in a sexual assault case — or the victim, in cases that are…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member for giving way again. He will be aware of the success of special measures in domestic abuse contest cases. We now have successful conviction rates of about 92% in such cases, either by guilty plea or at the end of a case. That dramatic increase is due to the fact that people are now willing to turn…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill: Second Stage
I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am pleased to bring the Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill before the Assembly today, although I have been before the Assembly a number of times today, and perhaps the Assembly may wish that we were somewhere else. It is an unfortunate fact that any one of us may become a…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill: Second Stage
As I said, a lot of people in our community have concerns. I have spoken with Stephen Ogilvie's family, who are concerned that the horrific attack on him was weaponised and used to bring people on to the street and to make victims of other people. They spoke passionately to me about the many foreign nationals working…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration
If the Member had been listening, he would know that what I actually said was that, when the numbers are drilled down into, very few people enter Northern Ireland illegally. I did say, however, that some may become illegal while they are here, if, for example, their claim for asylum is rejected and their appeal…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration
Through the Executive programme, we are delivering a wider suite of interventions focused on prevention, early intervention and supporting those most at risk. The custody navigator project provides support at the point of justice contact and is the expansion of the Another Way project into Derry and Strabane. That…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Update
The Executive programme on paramilitarism and organised crime, for which I am lead Minister, brings together Departments, statutory agencies and community partners to deliver a public health, whole-system approach to tackling paramilitarism. EPPOC invests in over 100 evidence-based interventions to address…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Update
We have had active engagement, as I said, with the PSNI and the Department of Finance, because, ultimately, we will have to get the money to pay for it. I have said all along that the extent of the potential costs would far outstrip what the Department of Justice could afford to pay from within its budgetary lines. We…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Holiday Pay and Pension Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Holiday Pay and Pension
As the Member to my left has helpfully indicated, a number of those issues are somewhat reliant on us being able to pass a Budget. However, that has not stopped the ongoing engagement of the Department, the PSNI and the Department of Finance on how we are going to respond. Given that some of them are currently before…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Holiday Pay and Pension Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Holiday Pay and Pension
There is a cost to it. There is also a cost that can be levied to the public in certain situations, such as when damaged cars are left at the side of the road and the police have to seize them and move them. That cost can be passed on. That is something that we will have to look at when we are looking at how we can…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Electric Bikes, Scramblers and Scooters: Seizure and Storage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Electric Bikes, Scramblers and Scooters: Seizure and Storage
We have had conversations with the PSNI, particularly in light of the cross-party amendment that was brought to the Justice Bill and, thankfully, was passed and will become law. It is useful that the Member's party colleague and my party colleague, under the leadership of Mr McGlone, were able to bring that forward as…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Electric Bikes, Scramblers and Scooters: Seizure and Storage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Electric Bikes, Scramblers and Scooters: Seizure and Storage
First. if there was intelligence gathering, that would fall outside my remit. Again, intelligence, particularly at a national security level, is a reserved matter. However, I am aware that colleagues in Westminster have been raising these issues with the House authorities in Westminster and, indeed, more widely with…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Donaldson Case: Public Confidence in Policing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Donaldson Case: Public Confidence in Policing
There are a few things to say. First, I pay tribute to the PSNI officers, the PPS and the courts, which saw justice delivered for the two victims last week. When information was brought to the police, they handled it appropriately and swiftly, and it is to their credit that they did so. It is also to the credit of the…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Donaldson Case: Public Confidence in Policing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Donaldson Case: Public Confidence in Policing
The Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 introduced the early removal scheme for foreign national prisoners. The scheme allows fixed-term foreign national prisoners who are confirmed by Home Office immigration enforcement to be removed from the UK up to a maximum of 135 days before the end of their requisite custodial…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Prisoners: Foreign Nationals Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Prisoners: Foreign Nationals
I am not sure, because the Member sits behind me, whether he was here when I answered the original question. The enforcement of immigration is a matter for Border Force, which is an agency of the UK. The PSNI's only role is to act in support of Border Force when it deems that to be necessary. Where buses are stopped,…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
A number of things. The community safety partnerships receive funding from the Department of Justice and the PSNI. The work that they do and how they invest that resource is a matter for them. They take account of the local situation and the wider policing plan. In areas where there has been a particular focus on…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
That is an area on which I can engage helpfully when I attend those quadrilateral meetings that I spoke about earlier, because we have a policy and strategic responsibility for modern slavery and human trafficking, as well as responsibility for supporting those identified as victims of such in Northern Ireland. The…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
Yes, I agree. It is incredibly dangerous for us to ascribe responsibility for the crimes of an individual to a group of people with whom they associate. I think that many Members in the Chamber today will be particularly sensitive as to why that is inappropriate. People make their own decisions, commit offences and…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
The Member will be aware of the dire funding situation for the Department of Justice and the PSNI. Unless and until the Department receives higher levels of funding from the Executive and, in turn, the Executive receive higher levels of funding from Westminster commensurate with our level of need, it will be hard to…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
There have been claims and counterclaims about the direction of travel, whether north or south, in cross-border exploitation of the common travel area. I have discussed the issue not only from an immigration perspective but from the wider perspective of organised crime groups who try to exploit any opportunity that…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
Mr Speaker, with permission, I will answer questions 3 and 5 together, which may result in the answer being slightly longer than usual. At the outset, I remind Members that immigration is not a devolved matter and therefore does not fall within my responsibilities as Minister of Justice. However, I assure Members that…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
As I said, none of us, including the CBA, wishes to be in that position again. There are a number of things that we can do. I spoke earlier about the more regular and routine review of legal aid fees and delivery of the enabling access to justice delivery programme. If we can work together on those issues to ensure…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Barristers: Withdrawal of Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Barristers: Withdrawal of Services
As I said, the listing of cases is a matter solely for the judiciary. It is something that I cannot control, but I have sought updates from the LCJ, who has now issued a direction on how she intends to take the matter forward. I will keep myself abreast of the impact that that has on the backlogs that have been…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Barristers: Withdrawal of Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Barristers: Withdrawal of Services
In answer to the first question, we invested additional money in Victim Support NI and other support services so that people who needed particular support during the suspension of court processes could benefit from that. Hopefully, those services will also be able to support people through this period. I encourage…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Criminal Barristers: Withdrawal of Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Criminal Barristers: Withdrawal of Services
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