Debate contribution: First Minister: Unlawful Actions
Debate contribution by Mr Gordon Lyons on .
- MLA
- Mr Gordon Lyons
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 29 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- First Minister: Unlawful Actions
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5761482
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The Member says that I did not accept the report. No, I did not agree with the then commissioner's report, because it was full of speculation. She put in a retrospective subjective empathy test and over-interpreted neutral language, and the report was full of internal contradictions, evidential thinness and hindsight bias, so, no, I do not give that report, or the former commissioner, any credibility. I believe that she had a preconceived outcome in mind before any evidence was considered. I therefore rejected the report's findings, but I made myself available. I made myself available to the House, made myself available for a debate and made myself available to the media and anybody else, because I do not shy away from what I do. I do accept, however, that, even though I was acting in a constituency capacity, the ministerial code applies at all times.
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