Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Eóin Tennyson on .
- MLA
- Mr Eóin Tennyson
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 28 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5762572
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I thank the Member for giving way. Over the course of the debate, I have said that the question of the harm threshold is a legitimate policy question. That does not mean that there is not a coherent test of harm in the Bill. As the Member will know, this definition of harm is lifted from the domestic abuse legislation, which the Member was supportive of in his tenure as Chair of the Justice Committee. Why is the threshold inappropriate in this Bill but appropriate when distinguishing between difficult conversations and coercive control in a domestic abuse context?
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