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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I cannot answer that question today as I do not have the details at my fingertips. I am happy to write to the Member with the details that he has requested.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Enabling Access to Justice Reform Programme: Evidence Base Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Enabling Access to Justice Reform Programme: Evidence Base
The sexual offences legal adviser scheme has had, and continues to have, an overwhelmingly positive impact for victims in serious sexual offence cases. The SOLA service, which is funded by my Department and delivered by solicitors who are employed by Victim Support NI, has provided free, independent legal advice to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sexual Offences Legal Advisers: Impact Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sexual Offences Legal Advisers: Impact
What I said was that the remainder of the Bar had not taken action in response to the 16% offer and that we had applied it across all sections of the Bar. Remember that the 16% was originally recommended only for the criminal Bar. I made the decision to do the uplift across the entire Bar to ensure that all parts were…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations
Those affected by the action are the victims and witnesses, who will have been readying themselves to give evidence and hoping that their journey is near an end. They will now need to wait longer for justice. Over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to meet the victim and witness care unit in the Public…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations
There have been meetings between my officials and the Bar. I have not met the Bar, because I believe that the discussions should now happen through the working group. It is important that the evidence base goes through the working group and that that group then produces its report. As you are aware, the issues that I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations
I very much recognise the vulnerability. That is one of the reasons why I was very keen, in the interim, to find some kind of derogation for the most serious and severe cases where the harm was likely to be greatest. I am glad to say that there has been some progress on that. It is an improved position over where we…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations
Engagement with the legal professions and other stakeholders has been ongoing since the launch of the programme. The substantial 16% uplift in fees that I am implementing is based on the recommendations of the independent fundamental review of criminal legal aid, which was informed by 10 months of engagement with, and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Remuneration: Criminal Bar Association Negotiations
I have only just started watching 'Adolescence', so I do not want to comment on whether it is age-appropriate for pupils. I understand that the content is particularly triggering and quite traumatic. The Member is quite right, however, on a wider point: we need to have a range of resources and tools that are relatable…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Pre-recorded Cross-examinations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Pre-recorded Cross-examinations
Costs for the project have not yet been finalised, but it is very likely that additional funding will be required to introduce automated case tracking and appropriate recording and editing equipment, as well as for the arrangements and staffing needed to launch the pathfinder project to which I referred earlier. There…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Pre-recorded Cross-examinations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Pre-recorded Cross-examinations
I do not have the final figure for the number of recommendations that have been either progressed or substantively completed. I can, however, assure the Member that, at this time, the percentage is well over 70%, and heading towards 80%, and there will be further developments as part of the victims and witnesses Bill…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Pre-recorded Cross-examinations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Pre-recorded Cross-examinations
My Department has been working with partners and stakeholders to develop arrangements to test pre-recorded cross-examination (PRCE) in response to the Gillen review report recommendation. Significant progress has been made through a cross-organisational PRCE working group. For example, a draft process map has been…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Pre-recorded Cross-examinations Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Pre-recorded Cross-examinations
Community service is indeed a good solution in justice, not just in the youth justice system but in the adult justice system. We talk a lot about restorative justice, but one of the elements of restorative justice is paying back the community from which you have come and to which you have caused harm. There is an…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Community Service Orders Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Community Service Orders
In the past three years, an average of 1·7% of all community orders made in the Youth Court were community service orders. The figures for the individual years were 1·7% in 2021, 0·8% in 2022 and 2·7% in 2023. Those figures relate to cases where the main disposal was a community order. The figures are for initial…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Community Service Orders Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Community Service Orders
At the moment, we are not aware when these may crystallise, so we are still in a situation where there are exceptional pressures of around £227 million. The data breach is just one of those, and the Member has rightly identified holiday pay and McCloud. They will also impact on other Departments. That £227 million is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding
That is information that I do not hold. The PSNI may, however, hold it, and I would be happy were the Member to contact the Chief Constable directly to ask that question.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding
At the moment, I am not in a position to discuss what I intend to make bids for under June monitoring. Obviously, that will be contingent on the PSNI bringing to me a strong case for any bids that, it feels, should be taken forward. My focus is twofold. The first is to deal with the current business case, which has…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding
I have been eagerly awaiting this one. This is something that both the current and previous Finance Ministers have raised with Treasury. I understand that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury has not agreed that there will be access to the reserve for these costs at this time. However, we will continue to jointly make…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Treasury Reserve Funding
Thus far, my understanding is that, where the probation service has had to live within its budget, it has focused on, for example, the reporting to courts, so pre-sentencing reports to courts have slowed down somewhat in order to maintain the level of supervision that is required of those sex offenders and others who…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Transformation Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Transformation Funding
The contract that we have can be expanded to include GPS monitoring, and so we were prepared for this. Whether or not we were successful in the transformation bid, we were prioritising this in the Department. The fact that we have been successful with the transformation bid simply means that we do not now need to take…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Transformation Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Transformation Funding
Some £20·45 million will be used to support work to speed up and transform the criminal justice system, which is a key departmental commitment in the Programme for Government. The remaining £2·19 million will help to modernise our electronic monitoring systems. The funding for speeding up justice focuses largely on…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Transformation Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Transformation Funding
I am delighted that my Department was successful in its bid for transformation funding, which is worth £22·64 million over five years. The funding will be used on efforts to speed up and transform the criminal justice system and to modernise electronic monitoring. Justice is demand-led, with funding, quite…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Transformation Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Transformation Funding
I am not convinced that we have reached the point where we need to reconsider the introduction of 50:50 recruitment. However, the Member will be aware that, as the Minister, I must remain open to that request should it be presented to me by the Policing Board or the Chief Constable. When previously utilised, it was…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Catholic Recruits Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Catholic Recruits
Absolutely. It was disappointing to see the response to the small number of adverts that showed racial diversity in the PSNI. The reaction to those was incredibly disappointing for those of us who wish to see a more inclusive, more representative Police Service. Let us be clear: an inclusive and representative Police…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Catholic Recruits Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Catholic Recruits
There are two things. First, I do not accept that there is two-tiered justice in the ombudsman's office. Secondly, it is not a matter for me to comment on how and when the ombudsman issues her reports. I am aware that she is processing a number of legacy reports. There is a deadline for those to be issued, and she…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Catholic Recruits Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Catholic Recruits
There are two schools of thought on why people are deterred from membership of the PSNI or, indeed, progression. The first is that there is a fundamental flaw in the organisation's recruitment practices. The bald numbers of applications and successful applicants suggest that that is not the case. There is a wider…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI: Catholic Recruits Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI: Catholic Recruits
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