Debate contribution: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage

Debate contribution by Ms Sinéad McLaughlin on 15 June 2026.

MLA: Ms Sinéad McLaughlin
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 15 June 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Executive Committee Business
Heading: Justice Bill: Consideration Stage
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5615617

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I thank the Member for giving way. I suspect that I am one of the "good" SDLP Members that you talked about.
You have covered a lot of ground. Can you understand that the frustration is not with some of the areas of discussion? It is with how you have abused the institutions and the petition of concern. You have withdrawn all the validity from what you are saying, because you have used the system to disallow the democratic process from happening here today. That is what the great disappointment from the good Member of the SDLP here is, and my colleagues as well. That is where our disappointment lies: in that misuse and the appalling behaviour of voting against democracy.

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