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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 flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.

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  2. Debate contribution: Digital ID Scheme: Opposition

    • Private Members' Business

    Sinn Féin is so wrong-headed on this subject, it is crazy. The reason why it is so wrong-headed on this is that it is hung up on the nickname "BritCard". If this was brought in in the Republic of Ireland, or if it was brought in in the EU, which there are plans to do, Sinn Féin members would lap it up. They would all…

    Flagged Decided on a second assessment. Constitutional question, Brexit, the Windsor Framework and sovereignty Criteria met: Identity framing, Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  4. Member's statement: BBC Bias

    • Members' Statements

    Information is the currency of democracy. I am the first politician to stand up for freedom of the press and investigative journalism. However, the priority now for the BBC must be to restore its relationship with the truth and with the people who are forced to pay for that shabby and unethical service. The Trump…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  5. Debate contribution: Child Protection Disclosure Scheme: Applications

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    The Minister has failed to answer my question, even though she had time to get the data that I seek. That does nothing to assuage my concerns that the Department of Justice and, indeed, the PSNI are refusing to promote the child protection disclosure scheme, meaning that parents are the last to know if there is a risk…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  6. Debate contribution: Exclusion of the Minister of Education from Office

    • Assembly Business

    Mr Speaker, what a farce; what an absolute farce. When we in the Chamber could be debating housing — we have a Minister here — or education in our own country — the Education Minister is here — what a farce it is that we are debating something that will make no material difference or have no outcome after the debate.…

    Flagged Religion and belief (including people of no religion), churches, faith communities and religious prejudice (including antisemitism and anti-Muslim prejudice) Criteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  8. Motion or amendment: Opposition to the British Government’s Mandatory Digital ID Scheme - Amendment 1

    • Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Opposition to the British Government’s Mandatory Digital ID Scheme”

    Opposition to the British Government’s Mandatory Digital ID Scheme - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘stretched;’ and insert: ‘stresses that these plans would also jeopardise personal privacy and creates the potential for misuse of citizens’ personal data; and calls on the Prime Minister to immediately withdraw plans…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  9. Debate contribution: Supporting Service Leavers, Veterans and their Families

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. He makes a really valid point. When I served in the Royal Irish Rangers and the Royal Irish Regiment, many of my colleagues treated their Irishness as what made them special. Indeed, the Royal Irish is renowned for its Irishness and proud of it. That is the difference between the…

    Not flagged Decided on a second assessment.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  10. Debate contribution: Supporting Service Leavers, Veterans and their Families

    • Private Members' Business

    The Member makes a valid point, and I am glad that he mentioned the Veterans Commissioner, because we should be grateful for the commissioner's work. He mentioned the duty that is placed on the Departments. That duty should not be one that Departments see as having to be done. In doing that duty, there has to be a…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  12. Debate contribution: Supporting Service Leavers, Veterans and their Families

    • Private Members' Business

    I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am delighted that we have a motion today that has been supported by four of the parties in the House. That does my heart good not only because four parties have signed the motion and agreed its wording but because the subject matter is very close to my heart and to that of…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  13. Debate contribution: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I really appreciate the Minister's giving way. He has spoken to our amendment. Just so that the House is clear: given the Minister's charitable stance, given that our amendment is very similar to his principle and given what he has said about tabling a departmental amendment at Further Consideration Stage, we will not…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  14. Debate contribution: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. The amendment is a safeguard to ensure that no parent would have to pay for a certificate. It states that the certificate and the first copy of it would be free. Why did we go for two certificates? The mother and the father or the other parent, for that matter, might be estranged,…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  15. Debate contribution: Prisoner Release Victim Information Scheme

    • Question for Urgent Oral Answer

    I have had the honour of meeting some members of the Cawdery family. They have been very helpful with my private Member's Bill on an individual duty of candour. Minister, you failed to address the question about the specific conditions that were placed on Thomas McEntee while he was on pre-release testing and whether…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  17. Debate contribution: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I acknowledge the Minister's comment about dealing with legislation as opposed to motions. You can see a marked difference in the way that legislation and regulations are debated, rather than debating motion after motion, some of which are pointless. We should leave populism outside the door when talking about…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  18. Debate contribution: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for taking an intervention. That is the point of that amendment and why Diane and I made it clear that the certificate would be free but the first copy of a certificate would also be free so that, if parents were estranged for whatever reason — that might even be due to them having suffered the loss…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  19. Debate contribution: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. He has been gracious with his time. The issue, though, is that, in every other jurisdiction it is policy. It is not regulations, and it is not legislation. We are the only place that is doing legislation and regulation on this. It is giving the Department that space, whereas, in…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  20. Debate contribution: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    Is the Member saying that it would be wrong to exclude from receiving a baby loss certificate a mother who has just lost her baby through abortion to protect her and save her own life?

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  22. Debate contribution: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill: Consideration Stage

    • Executive Committee Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. He has hit on a critical point. To be fair to the Member, it shows the intent of his amendment. Is it also the case that, in circumstances where, under the previous law, the mother's life was at risk and the baby was aborted to save the mother's life, parents can, if they wish, apply…

    Not flagged

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  23. Debate contribution: Public Health Bill: Human Rights

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    I thank the Health Minister for that very honest answer, and I also applaud the fact that he has removed the public health Bill from the legislative programme. Minister, if it is wrong to have that Bill now, so soon after the atrocious decisions taken in the Department of Health during the COVID pandemic, why do you…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  24. Debate contribution: Catherine Connolly, President of Ireland

    • Matters of the Day

    First, I state categorically that the presidential election in the Republic of Ireland is for the people of the Republic of Ireland. As a democrat, I will always support using democratic means to support a head of state, no matter where that state may be in the world. We need to be champions of democracy in all its…

    Flagged Sectarianism, hate crime and community relations Criteria met: Identity framing, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  25. Debate contribution: Soldier F: Not Guilty Verdict

    • Matters of the Day

    Thank you, Mr Speaker. I rise with a heart full of sensitivity and compassion for all the innocent victims of the Troubles, who never came home and left an empty chair in their households. It is with that compassion and sensitivity that I will speak today. You could ask whether the soldiers were even supposed to be…

    Flagged Legacy of the Troubles, victims and paramilitarism Criteria met: Identity framing.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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