All of Mr Paul Givan’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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It was all right when it was on your side.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
It is majority rule.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
Your party put the petition of concern in the 1998 agreement.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Is it appropriate for the Member, who is rather irate, to say that Members have abused the use of the petition of concern? All Members have discharged their responsibilities according to the processes of the Assembly. That is why they are valid petitions of concern, and that is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
I speak in advance of the continuation of the Justice Bill's Consideration Stage today, which, potentially, will deal with the important group of amendments associated with the minimum age of criminal responsibility. The debate will be important, and I urge Members —. Mr Speaker, with your indulgence, my statement…
Assessment details for Member's statement: Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Petition of Concern Official Assembly record for Member's statement: Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: Petition of Concern
I appreciate the Member's giving way. I chaired the Justice Committee when Lord Morrow's private Member's Bill came through. Like the Member, I am concerned at the PSNI's failure to properly take forward prosecutions for payment for sexual services. The Assembly passed that legislation a number of years ago. Most…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
The Member had the chance to make a lengthy speech earlier. He is now trying to reframe it. On restrictive practices, has he not been following the comments that one of the parents involved in this debate has been making about his position? She is against it. She does not support your position. That is somebody who…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Let me respond. I think that I have one of the most effective and closest relationships with the trade unions of many an Education Minister. I worked with them very closely to ensure that teachers got increases in pay, despite the frustrations that I was having from the Executive, notwithstanding my efforts. I brought…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Again, that is revealing of the mindset and attitude of Sinn Féin, as articulated by Mr Sheehan. It confirms what I said at the start of my speech: this is the new way in which Sinn Féin intends to operate the Executive. When Michelle O'Neill approves something being on the agenda and Sinn Féin Ministers approve its…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank the Members from across the Chamber who contributed to the debate. At times, the debate was somewhat more robust than I might have expected for a Bill that received unanimous support at the Executive. I will get to the substance of some of the points that Members made, and they…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
The Member might want to seek some information in due course, and I will try to provide that. Mr Carroll helpfully highlighted how the health trade unions remove areas from their strike action. The RQIA has a legal right to inspect; that is a legal requirement so the health trade unions never invoke in that regard.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
I appreciate the Member giving way. I am aware of the case, just as I am aware of a number of cases that have been brought to my attention. Those are the cases that we know of and that are being investigated. The purpose of the Bill is to ensure that an effective inspection process is in place to identify safeguarding…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Some Members have talked about wanting to amend clause 3, but I have not yet heard anyone say that they want to amend clause 2. On the inclusion of clause 2, while it was not a clear, direct judgement of the Supreme Court, it was critical of the Northern Ireland education system in that judgement because RE was…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
I am happy to do so. To reassure the Member, there is no opt-out when it comes to teaching religious education in our schools. Quite the opposite: it is a legal requirement that religious education and religious instruction are carried out in our schools. That includes acts of collective worship that take place in our…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
I refer the Member to the comments that I made to Mr Mathison. Of course, I have indicated that there is a willingness to engage and to look at issues of concern. I said that earlier in the debate.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
I appreciate the Member's giving way. This is why the language that we use today is so important. Mr McCrossan has again said that the Bill will "criminalise our teachers". Sinn Féin said that the original Bill would criminalise our teachers. That is why I worked with it. I did not agree with the party, but I worked…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Does the Member agree that there is a contradiction in the Sinn Féin position when it says that it does not support this in respect of teachers but it does support police officers being sanctioned for refusing to engage with the Police Ombudsman and prison officers being sanctioned for refusing to engage with the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Will the Member give way?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. So far, not one comment from the Member has been about the Bill. It is just another personal assassination attempt by Sinn Féin against me. It has nothing to do with the Bill. It is purely party political and of a personal nature, which we have become used to with that lot.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
Are you for real?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
I appreciate Mr Burrows' giving way. He is right to say that people can play to the Public Gallery and be populist on this, but that infers that every teacher somehow agrees with the representations that have been made by others. The teachers whom I know are not afraid of having a light shone on practices that may…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
I appreciate the Member giving way. Do you take the same position on the profession in the Republic of Ireland and the rest of Great Britain, where there is no inspection boycott during strike action? There have been strikes in the South and in Great Britain, and never has inspection been included in that strike…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
When the Bill was going through the Executive, one of the requests from Sinn Féin and others was to do exactly what he has just set out. We met the trade unions. We asked them formally to enter into an agreement that would take that issue off their list of potential industrial action. There was no meeting and no…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Education Inspections Bill: Second Stage
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