Debate contribution: Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
Debate contribution by Ms Emma Sheerin on .
- MLA
- Ms Emma Sheerin
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 30 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Illegal Immigration and People Smuggling: Criminality
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5653210
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I thank the Minister for clarifying that immigration is an excepted matter, which means that it is the responsibility of the British Government and nothing to do with the House. The Minister will be aware that, in recent weeks, a DUP Member made claims in the Chamber about ethnicity and crime that have since been confirmed as unsubstantiated by FactCheckNI. Does she agree that it is important that, when Members speak about issues in the Chamber, they use accurate and responsible language and avoid conflating topics or tarring an entire section of the community with one brush?
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