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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. She has based this argument on a gay person going to a parent, but, in the Bill, we have a loose definition of "gender identity". If a child says to their mum or dad, "I am an animal", and that parent says, "You're going to have to think about this for a couple of years", that is…

    Uncertain Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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

    • Private Members' Business

    The Member is raising her voice. There is no need to raise your voice; this is a very good debate. It is not about "changing"; it is "changing or suppressing". When you look at the definition of "conversion therapy", you see that, if a 14-year-old girl goes to a parent and says, "I think I'm a boy", and that parent…

    Awaiting analysis

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

    • Private Members' Business

    The Bill defines "conversion therapy" as, first: "counselling or any form of talking therapy". It then defines it as including "coaching", which could be any form of coaching, or "instruction". That would be instruction from either a parent, a teacher, a pastor or a preacher on sexual orientation and transgender…

    Not qualifying

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. She talks about torture practices, but does she deem counselling, any form of talking therapy, coaching and instruction to be torture therapies?

    Awaiting analysis

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  10. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. The Bill sponsor completely misses the point about the offences. The point that we made earlier and the point that she was making relates to this issue: when you put your name into the portal and put up Union flags, if, the very next night, UVF flags go up, that will be attributed to…

    Awaiting analysis

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  12. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. She has declared her love for Linfield, but I am glad that she is wearing sky blue, which is the colour of Ballymena United. Does the Member agree with me that the very fact that the Alliance Party and the Bill sponsor have targeted Linfield Football Club because of its colours and…

    Awaiting analysis

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  13. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. Think of the richness of that community engagement, with communities talking to one another and to their elected representatives. Think of the cost to the Department for Infrastructure of having to set up a new division to concentrate on flags. We have DFI Roads for potholes and the…

    Not qualifying

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  14. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    That is exactly what clause 6 would do. It states: "The Department may request assistance from the Police Service of Northern Ireland in removing a flag or emblem if the Department is of the opinion that, in removing the flag or emblem there may arise— (a) a breach of the peace, or (b) an offence under section 5." The…

    Awaiting analysis

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  18. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I congratulate her, because, through her remarks and her intervention, she has teased out and exposed what the Alliance Party wants to do here. The Member who intervened said that, if people in her constituency have a problem with flags, she sends them to the UUP or the DUP. Not once…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  19. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I believe that even law-abiding citizens will not use the portal, because a person could notify the Department for Infrastructure that they are going to line the footpaths of the Newtownards Road with Union flags on every other lamp post, but another organisation could come along the…

    Awaiting analysis

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  20. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. It could be that it goes right to the very top because the Bill does not define who actually makes the final decision: who decides or has an "opinion" on what is a good flag, a bad flag, a bad billboard or a good billboard. It could, however, be a local office. It could be a regional…

    Awaiting analysis

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  21. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Bill sponsor for her intervention. That is useful. I will close on this, because I have previously spoken at length on the issue. I worry about the Bill. I do not believe that it would do what it says on the blue pages. I believe that it would create further tension and difficulties in our communities. One…

    Awaiting analysis

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  23. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    If a public authority such as a council were to decide to display a flag that I do not like along the whole of Royal Avenue or around Donegall Square, by the look of things, I would have no redress to challenge that.

    Awaiting analysis

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  24. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for his intervention. I am sure that the Bill sponsor will address those points when she is on her feet. All of that is caveated by the fact that clause 1(7) states: "This section does not apply in respect of a flag or emblem that is displayed by a public authority." I was deeply offended when…

    Awaiting analysis

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  25. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    OK, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I take that point. However, a lot of this detail adds to the principles. I will not ask the Bill sponsor to intervene on every question that I raise, but maybe she will address some of them when she is summing up. Clause 1(4)(e) states: "whether the flag or emblem is displayed for…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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