Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mrs Diane Dodds on .
- MLA
- Mrs Diane Dodds
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 15 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5705865
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That is absolutely correct. The Bill leads us, as parents and, for me now, as a grandparent, into a situation where we could be subjected to legal proceedings by the police and courts for what many of us deem to be normal parenting of our children. That might not be the Member's intent in the Bill, but it is important that, when we legislate, we are clear about what it will lead us to. I do not think that that is in the Bill. I will have more to say on that as I go through the Bill in detail.
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