Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
Debate contribution by Ms Connie Egan on .
- MLA
- Ms Connie Egan
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 8 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Executive Committee Business
- Heading
- Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5601184
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Does the Minister agree that it is quite strange that those who will be voting against my amendment and who want to keep those laws on our statute book have not come forward with any ways in which they think that those laws should be used? They are not used, so what is the point in having them? Those Members have not come forward with any proposals on how the laws should be used. Maybe you can confirm: have they asked you to produce any sentencing guidelines? What should the punishment for blasphemy be if it is on our statute book?
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