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
- 22 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5741321
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I thank the Member for giving way. Mr Gaston talked about this being "ludicrous" and "folly": some of the contributions have been ludicrous and folly. For Members to talk in such dismissive and trivialising terms about people identifying as inanimate objects and as cats and dogs is ridiculous and deeply offensive. I consulted all the Departments that will be affected by the Bill. The Department of Agriculture was not one of them. Animals are not involved in the legislation. It is deeply offensive for Members to trivialise people's identities in that way.
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