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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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If the Minister for Infrastructure prioritises the matter and comes to the Department of Justice to discuss it, I will be more than happy to have that discussion. However, as I said, the policy lead for parking and other roads issues is the Department for Infrastructure. I am well aware of the issues. I cannot say…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Pavement Parking Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Pavement Parking
The matter of parking is decriminalised, and, as a result, it is for the Department for Infrastructure, with local councils, to take the lead. The policy lead is not mine. The issue of obstructive parking is an offence that is particularly difficult to make out. Unless there are markings on the pavement, you require a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Pavement Parking Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Pavement Parking
What needs to be done to deal with it is that the public need to recognise that, when the police are doing their job, they are there to protect the public, preserve life and keep people safe. The public need to be supportive of the police in that. There has to be a culture in which we do not tolerate attacks on the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI Vehicles: Ramming Incidents Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI Vehicles: Ramming Incidents
We had a useful debate in the Chamber on that matter only a number of weeks ago, during which I set out the particular offences that could be engaged in the prosecution of such offences. The issue of those offences being frequent is not unique to Northern Ireland, and nor are we at a legislative disadvantage in taking…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI Vehicles: Ramming Incidents Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI Vehicles: Ramming Incidents
I understand their frustration and share it. Had we been able to get on with our jobs over the past two years, we might have been in a better place. However, we are where we are and my focus now is on making sure that we make as much progress as we can in the three years available to us.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Retail Crime Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Retail Crime
There are a number of issues. I was at the Retail NI launch, and the figures are absolutely disgraceful. I think that all of us in the Chamber would agree that it is absolutely abhorrent that anyone who provides a public service or serves the public should be subjected to any kind of abuse or attack while they do so.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Retail Crime Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Retail Crime
To be clear, I did not campaign to get this job; I was nominated by a party colleague and accepted the position when the Assembly voted for me. I did not campaign to be Justice Minister. I want to be absolutely clear on that. Whether this is stand-alone legislation or legislation that is developed by another vehicle,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hate Crime Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hate Crime Bill
First of all, what has changed is that we have lost two years of the mandate because the Assembly was suspended. Secondly, the resources in my Department are significantly constrained, including the human resource required to develop legislation. The plan had been for five Bills in a five-year mandate, but that has…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hate Crime Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hate Crime Bill
I am committed to ensuring that the risks posed to victims of domestic abuse are assessed and managed as effectively as possible, so we are setting up a dedicated multi-agency oversight group to consider the report's recommendations and develop costed options for reform. That group will be informed by a number of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy
Together with the Minister of Health, I am finalising a new seven-year domestic and sexual abuse strategy, with input from the Department of Education, the Department for Communities and the Executive Office. The draft strategy is built around five pillars: partnership; prevention; children and young people; support…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Domestic and Sexual Abuse Strategy
Yes, I have met the representative body for sub-postmasters. It was pleased by the progress that had been made by the Department in getting the compensation and the convictions dealt with at a UK-wide level, because that is the quickest possible access to the redress scheme. From my perspective, I have been clear…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
Two convictions have already been overturned by the Court of Appeal. We believe that that leaves us with around 26 cases that might be within scope. To date, we have also identified one caution on similar grounds. The legislation also allows anyone who thinks that they may be within scope to come forward and identify…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
The compensation scheme will operate on a UK-wide basis. The Department of Justice will have no role in the compensation scheme or in making it available to people. Our role is to ensure that the criminal records are suitably updated. We have already worked at pace with colleagues. Where we know that people have had a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
While the legislation, once enacted, will automatically quash the convictions of all those who meet the specified conditions, we will need to identify and notify individuals that their convictions have been quashed and ensure that their records are updated. My Department has been working at pace with our operational…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Post Office (Horizon System) Offences Bill
I will answer the question that said it is a matter for the Chief Constable to decide how this will be monitored. Of all the decisions that will need to be made, the closure of call-in front offices is probably one of the easier ones. My constituency has lost the call-in facility. I know that many Members feel the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Musgrave Street Police Station Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Musgrave Street Police Station
The decision to close PSNI enquiry offices is entirely an operational matter for the Chief Constable, who is accountable to the Northern Ireland Policing Board. As I am committed to respecting the operational independence of the chief and the role of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, it would not be appropriate for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Musgrave Street Police Station Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Musgrave Street Police Station
There are two separate issues. First, we need to give certainty to the organisations that need a budget in order to be able to spend money this year. Secondly, we need to give my Department a definitive answer on the resource that it will have. We have to proceed with this year's Budget. It is essential that we do so.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Situation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Situation
I cannot be more specific, because, first, the budget allocations to the various arm's-length bodies (ALBs) and partner organisations have not been issued. Those will go out in the first half of this week. Secondly, I am working my way through a list of operational areas that are within the gift of the core Department…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Situation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Situation
There is a major question about not only how they can be managed but whether they can be managed. However, it is my job as Minister to seek a way to do that. There is no recognition in the 2024-25 Budget settlement of the increased demand facing the Department. We have already heard mention in the Chamber of the 35%…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Situation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Situation
The Minister of Finance made a written ministerial statement to the Assembly on 25 April 2024, after which the Budget allocations were issued to Departments. My Department's allocation was £95 million or around 9·9% of the total funding available. That compared with our pressures of £446 million, which represented 14%…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Situation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Situation
In total, the Department applied for £446 million, which is just over 40% of its baseline budget, for inescapable pressures. Those are issues for which we have no funding and for which we cannot avoid paying. Of that £446 million, £318 million related to PSNI requests. Only £8 million related to pressures that, you…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Police Officers: Numbers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Police Officers: Numbers
The deployment of the operational resource that the Chief Constable has at his disposal is a matter entirely for him, and he would take that up with the board. I cannot advise the Member on where those stresses are likely to be most acutely felt. Furthermore, I am sure that she would not want us to name locations…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Police Officers: Numbers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Police Officers: Numbers
First, the New Decade, New Approach commitment was to 7,500 officers. The figure of 7,200 officers was provided by the previous Deputy Chief Constable, Stephen Martin, as advice on the numbers required. The figure of 6,900 to 7,200 came from the Leapwise report, which was commissioned by the Chief Constable and shared…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Police Officers: Numbers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Police Officers: Numbers
Resourcing in the PSNI is a matter for the Chief Constable, who is accountable to the Northern Ireland Policing Board. I respect the Chief Constable’s operational independence and the role of the Policing Board in holding him to account. Therefore, it would not be appropriate for me to make an assessment of that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Police Officers: Numbers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Police Officers: Numbers
As you know, the Prison Service collaborates with the Police Rehabilitation and Retraining Trust, following some of the work that I did in 2020-21. That continues to evolve. I already mentioned that 400 staff were trained and supported through PRRT, including through the preventative resilience training that is being…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Prison Staff: Support Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Prison Staff: Support Services
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