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Mrs Pam Cameron: Assembly records
All of Mrs Pam Cameron’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I thank the Member for giving way. Does he not understand that the crimes that he mentioned are already covered in law and by much harsher sentences, should they be proved, than the Bill would allow?
I thank the Member for giving way. I ask him this question genuinely: if, as he believes, the Bill has so many exemptions and so many people would not be captured under it, what is the point of the legislation? If he is aware of abuses or harmful conversion therapy practices, can he tell us what those are?
I thank the Member for giving way. Has she read any of the evidence from the Gay Men's Network (GMN)? It contains some very serious concerns. In evidence that it provided to me, it states: "We stand against this weaponisation of identity at the expense of rational debate. We are gay men, and we consider this…
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I would like some clarity from you, given that your office has received correspondence from the Christian Institute, the Free Speech Union and Genspect UK, saying: "Given the significant public interest in this bill, we would welcome clear guidance from the chair confirming that…
I thank the Minister for her answer. I know that the Kelly family will be relieved, rightly so, that that murderer is no longer roaming the streets. The case demonstrates the importance of the rule of law. The dogs on the street know that Michelle O'Neill stood proudly breaking the law and calling for others to do the…
To ask the Minister of Education for an update on the consultation on the Review of Temporary Variation Policy and how his proposals can give parents greater choice when a school has capacity to admit their child.
I thank my colleague for that intervention. I agree wholeheartedly with him. It is clear that there are very real fears around the reach of the legislation. That is not just from straight, socially conservative politicians. Many people are rightly alarmed by the impact that the legislation could have. That absolutely…
QualifyingCriteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues
I thank the sponsor for his intervention. The proposed legislation goes much further than the examples that he has given. In fact, I will quote again my trans woman friend who has been in contact with me over recent days. She said: "To be frank, I really don't know why he" — her words, not mine — "has put gender in…
I thank the Bill sponsor for his intervention. I will continue my remarks. Instead, the Bill takes concepts that are already addressed in law and lowers important thresholds and surrounds them with vague, subjective and undefined terminology — and we have heard so much undefined terminology this evening. I know that,…
At the outset, I say that abuse is abhorrent, whether it be coercion, cruelty, humiliation, violence or abuse that is directed against any person because of their sexual orientation or how they understand their gender. However, opposing abuse does not require us to support a badly drafted Bill, nor should legitimate…
Thank you for taking an intervention. Does the Member recognise the following? I have not yet had the chance to speak, so he may not, but I inform the Chamber that I have been contacted by a member of the trans community, a trans woman — a man who transitioned into a woman many years ago. That trans woman is very…
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. If Mrs Long is referring to my requesting several times that the Member give way, I say that I did not receive an indication from the Member that she did not want to give way. That is why I was trying to make my voice heard.
I thank my colleague for that intervention and agree completely on that. It is also important to correct claims about the FICT report. The report did not agree or recommend a statutory code of practice that would restrict the right to fly a flag through an online notification system with imposed time limits. Its…
I thank the Member for his intervention. I was speaking about the presumption in clause 1 that it is in the public interest to remove a display that the Department considers "offensive, abusive or insulting". We have to point out that there is no general right to be offended. In a free and democratic society, freedom…
I will in a wee minute. We do not want to make things worse or exacerbate problems. We have heard such good examples today. One size does not fit all in this place. What happens in the constituencies of East Belfast, West Belfast or Fermanagh and South Tyrone can be very different, but we could take very good examples…
We have so much more to do with the resource that we have in this place. We do not have enough, and we know that. Our health service needs it. Our Police Service needs more resource to deal with criminality and real life, quite frankly, in Northern Ireland.
I thank my colleague for that intervention. He, too, has raised very legitimate points about the cost of all that. In today's constrained budgets, we know how needed those pounds and pence are in other places. I fear that the Bill will not only lead to more disruption and community tension but the costs will be — in…
At the outset, I acknowledge the serious amount of work that the Member for South Belfast has put into her Member's Bill. It is not an easy task to undertake. I had a very uncontroversial Member's Bill go through successfully in the previous term, and I know what that meant to me as an individual. I therefore…
I thank the Minister for his continued commitment, and that of his Department, to our veterans in Northern Ireland. On the back of his very welcome statement, I ask why the Armed Forces Bill has not gone to the Executive in order to allow a legislative consent motion (LCM) to be brought to the House.