Debate contribution: Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
Debate contribution by Ms Cheryl Brownlee on .
- MLA
- Ms Cheryl Brownlee
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742051
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Text
The First Minister frequently speaks of being a First Minister for all and has, rightly, championed efforts to end violence against women and girls. Given that commitment, will she explain how her attendance at an event commemorating Thomas McElwee, who was convicted in connection with a firebomb attack that led to the death of Yvonne Dunlop, a mother of three, is consistent with that message? Does she recognise the hurt that that has caused to the victim's family? Will she unequivocally state that such violence was wrong?
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