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Mr Paul Frew: Assembly records

All of Mr Paul Frew’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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  1. Debate contribution: Members' Code of Conduct and the Guide to the Rules relating to the Conduct of Members

    • Committee Business

    I rise to support the Chair's remarks on the proposed changes and to commend the work of the Committee over the past number of months and, indeed, years. It is a very good Committee, which works very well. The amendments to the unacceptable behaviours policy are common sense and are borne out of experience over the…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  2. Member's statement: Garvaghy Road: Illegal Protests

    • Members' Statements

    I lament what happened at the weekend. There are two aspects to it. The first is about the fulfilment of rights. We should all be concerned about that. Even if we do not belong to a particular community or people, we should make sure that that community or those people enjoy the same rights as every other citizen in…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  4. Urgent oral question: Minister for the Economy - Pledge of Office

    • Urgent Oral Question

    Minister for the Economy - Pledge of Office To ask the Minister for the Economy, following her promotion of the unlawful protest on the Garvaghy Road in Portadown on 27 September 2026, to outline how her actions contribute to building good relations in keeping with her Pledge of Office.

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  8. Written question AQW 52821/22-27

    • Department of Justice

    To ask the Minister of Justice to detail (i) the number of prisoners that were granted leave on compassionate grounds and a civilian chaperone was appointed, in the last ten years; and (ii) the rationale that was used to determine why Prison Service personal were not appointed as a chaperone, in each case.

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  10. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    The reason why it and clause 6 especially are so dangerous is not only in what we have just talked about regarding gender identity but that the Bill sponsor pushes the definition of "sexual orientation" further than it goes in any other setting in law. Clause 6(2) states: "A reference to a victim’s sexual orientation"…

    Awaiting analysis

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  13. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I ask Members not to fall into a trap. The Bill does define "gender identity". It defines it by stating that it is: "what the victim considers it to be". That is a most dangerous definition. It therefore has been defined by the Bill sponsor. The Bill sponsor has done that purposely, and that is what the court would…

    Awaiting analysis

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  15. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    The Member poses a good question about how a court will define it. The court will be left with no choice but to define it as it is written in the legislation. It is written in the Bill that the victim considers it to be what they consider it to be. That is the danger here. The Bill sponsor knows rightly — it is why he…

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  17. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. The Bill sponsor has always defended his Bill by saying that there is a reasonableness test. He has also said that we should not be alarmed by the settings and scenarios that we describe, because the definition of "coercive behaviour" is steeped in the Domestic Abuse and Civil…

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  18. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. Perhaps the Bill sponsor does this deliberately, but, every time that we give him a scenario, he reverts to clause 2, which is the offence of engaging in coercive conversion behaviour, and not clause 1, which is the offence of providing conversion therapy. That is what parents,…

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  22. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    To prove the point that the Minister has just made, if, as the Bill sponsor says, he maintains that conversion therapy, as it is defined, takes place in a treatment setting, why has he included in clause 4(1)(c) "a treatment, or purported treatment"? He is catching it all. In clause 4: "a person provides or carries…

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  25. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    One of the main cruxes of the Bill is the definition of conversion therapy, and that is one of the main problems with it. If the Bill sponsor had said that it was any type of coaching or instruction in a therapeutic setting or a clinical setting, it could be looked at in a different way. However, because the Bill…

    Not qualifying

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