Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Stewart Dickson on .
- MLA
- Mr Stewart Dickson
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 15 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Executive Committee Business
- Heading
- Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5614487
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I will give the Member a practical example. The staff and principal of a school in my constituency were so concerned about the proximity of drug dealers and adults when young people were going out at lunchtime from the school, that they had to ban all unsupervised exit from the school. Children could not even go to the local sweet shop or somewhere to, perhaps, get an alternative to school meals. The sole reason for that was that adults were preying on those children. They knew their vulnerabilities, knew who their parents were and abused those vulnerabilities to incite them into drug dealing — effectively running county lines.
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