Debate contribution: Compassionate Temporary Release from Prison
Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Ministerial Statement
- Heading
- Compassionate Temporary Release from Prison
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5741960
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It is tone deaf of the Justice Minister to choose this day to start talking about the rights and dignity of prisoners. We have a dangerous prisoner on the run. The public are frightened, and the victim's family have been re-traumatised. The duty of the justice system is to protect the public, but, on the Minister's watch, the opposite has happened. Minister, you are following not leading, and it is not your integrity that I question but your competence. Why was it —?
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