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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.

636 records match.

  1. Debate contribution: Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs: No-confidence Motion

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    The Minister failed to respond to the debate in the House. Irrespective of which political party moved the motion and irrespective of the content of that motion, the Minister is a very important person. The House is here to hold the Minister — the very important person — to account. Will the Minister apologise to the…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  4. Debate contribution: First Minister — Pledge of Office

    • Questions for Urgent Oral Answer

    There are thousands of Parades Commission determinations every year, relating to every constituency. Why is the Garvaghy Road one a problem, meaning that the First Minister blocks the road, when she does not do so in respect of any other Parades Commission determinations?

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  7. Debate contribution: Prisons: Compassionate Temporary Release

    • Oral Answers to Questions

    Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I was certainly not challenging you; I was challenging the Justice Minister's non-answer. We already know that there was a lack of communication between the Department's legal team and the Prison Service. It seems that the standard operating procedures had failed in this case, meaning…

    Not analysed

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  9. 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

  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

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  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

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  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…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  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…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  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,…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  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…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  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…

    Awaiting analysis

    Assessment details Official Assembly record

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