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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 flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
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No, I am not, for the simple reason that it was clarified at the Policing Board, though I accept not during your term of office, by the then Chief Constable that it did not relate to me and that I at no time engaged with him to either advise or pressure him on the actions that he took.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Policing Board: Review Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Policing Board: Review
The role of the accounting officer is the one role that I, as Minister, do not have oversight of in my Department. In fact, it is the reverse. It is the accounting officer who oversees my directions on expenditure, so I am not sighted on his correspondence in his role as accounting officer. Also, to be frank, the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI Funding
I understand that the Member is new to the House, and I welcome him to his place. Anyone who has been here for slightly longer will have heard me make the same case over and over again. We have a projected overspend this year of £34 million in-year: that is for the things that, we know, will crystallise, so that is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI Funding
At the end of the day, it is about working with the Chief Constable through the structures that we have. The reality is that, in a devolved institution, the money that comes to Northern Ireland is not hypothecated. It is for this Assembly, on the basis of recommendations brought by the Executive, to vote through a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Police Morale Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Police Morale
The first thing to say is that I have discussed it at length with the Chief Constable, and his assessment is somewhat different: he believes that morale is much better in the Police Service than when he took over, that things have improved significantly during that period and that morale is improving. There are a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Police Morale Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Police Morale
Setting aside the rather vulgar framing of the question, to be absolutely clear, my heart, my mind and my efforts are all pointed in one direction, and that is to ensure that we have the best possible law and legislation in place at the end of this mandate to protect victims of hate crime and to give them access to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hate Crime Legislation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hate Crime Legislation
First, I again extend my sympathy to Anu's family. It is one of the most horrific cases that I have heard. It speaks to us all about the abject terror in which many people in our community are living, because they are so frightened and so fearful of attack, abuse and threat. It is not a unique story in the sense that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hate Crime Legislation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hate Crime Legislation
As I said, I am committed to playing my part in delivering a safer community for everyone, including victims of race hate crime and in partnership with others in government and beyond. DOJ, the PSNI, the Housing Executive and the Department for Communities continue to jointly fund the hate incident practical action…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks
Mel Jones stated in her public comments that she believed that paramilitaries were involved in some of that violence. She has been clear about that. Irrespective of whether paramilitaries are involved, however, the behaviour is not acceptable. It is important that we all speak with one voice. It is hugely frustrating…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks
The first thing to say is that the order of business is not agreed by me; it is agreed by the Business Committee, and all parties have Members on the Business Committee. If people are annoyed about the content of the Order Paper, that is for them to take up with the member of the Business Committee who represents…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks
I am not directly involved in that. However, it is important to reference the wider issue. We should be encouraged, I suppose, that only about 4% of attacks on what we would call "significant key buildings" — places of worship, Orange halls and GAA clubs — have been identified as being driven by a hate motive. In the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks
I recognise very much the harm that attacks on places of worship can have on members and the wider community. I condemn the recent attacks at the Bangladesh Islamic Centre in Newtownards, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God at Templemore Street in east Belfast and the Church of the Holy Name at Greenisland and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Places of Worship: Attacks
First, that was not consulted on in the sentencing review that was undertaken. Most sentencing in Northern Ireland is based on guideline cases and sentencing guidelines, which are a matter for the judiciary, not the Department. We have limited scope, other than in legislation, to set maximums; the rest is left to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sentencing Bill: Legislative Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sentencing Bill: Legislative Changes
We anticipate that the Bill will be introduced later in 2025. That will depend on the progress of earlier Assembly business that is going through at the moment. In the next few weeks, I hope to introduce my mixed content, miscellaneous provisions Bill — the modernisation Bill. The sentencing Bill will be the second…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sentencing Bill: Legislative Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sentencing Bill: Legislative Changes
It is important, and it is something that I, too, would like to see. A difficulty that we have is limited resource in the Department and in the Office of the Legislative Counsel for drafting commitments. There is also a challenge in the development of policy in the area. For example, when it comes to the issue of what…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sentencing Bill: Legislative Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sentencing Bill: Legislative Changes
The sentencing Bill will deliver on a number of recommendations arising from my Department's public consultation on sentencing policy. That will include a statement of the principles and purposes of sentencing; provision to allow further use of community sentences; statutory starting points for life sentence tariff…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sentencing Bill: Legislative Changes Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sentencing Bill: Legislative Changes
As we have gathered from the announcement today on the Programme for Government, funding remains the most challenging issue that faces the Executive. It is particularly challenging in the Department of Justice and, indeed, the Department of Health, and it is a shared strategy. Funding and affordability issues remain…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update
That is a very important point, and it speaks to a recent conversation that I had not just with prison officers but with police officers about the level of abuse that is shown towards people in public service. It is almost taken as read that that is a norm when it should be the exception and treated seriously. If…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update
That is a really important point, because many of the men who are engaged in those behaviours have also been victims of abuse, often as children, and have been exposed to domestic violence in the home. Many of them view that as a normal part of an adult relationship. Therefore, the earlier that we can do the education…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update
Ultimately, responsibility for cross-departmental working on the ending violence against women and girls strategy falls to the Executive Office Ministers. The First and deputy First Minister will take forward the action plan, which they also hope to publish next week, and it will include the contributions that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update
Violence against women and girls is wholly abhorrent. The stark reality is that, in August, we saw two murders and one attempted murder of women in Northern Ireland in a single week. That is shocking, and we have a collective responsibility to take action. My Department is fully supportive of the ending violence…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls Strategic Framework: Update
There is. Many behaviours that constitute criminal offending are treated in the same manner, regardless of whether they are carried out offline or online. The provisions of the Online Safety Act 2023 create a range of offences that can be used to tackle and prosecute offensive online behaviour. Additional legislation…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Online Abuse Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Online Abuse
I have discussed that with representative bodies of the social media companies, and I am concerned about it. I know from personal experience of women who were interested in getting involved in politics but took a cursory glance through some of our collective social media threads and decided that the level of abuse was…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Online Abuse Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Online Abuse
First of all, if I may, I congratulate the lord on his elevation. I think that it is the first opportunity that he has had to ask a question in this House on that basis. I am working very closely with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on the work that it is doing, and with the Home Office on the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Online Abuse Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Online Abuse
I am very happy to support any Minister who is dealing with issues of cyberbullying and online harassment, whether in schools or elsewhere. The Member will be aware, however, that I have serious concerns about whether it is necessary to spend £250,000 in order to do so when most schools already have both policy and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Online Abuse Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Online Abuse
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