Debate contribution: Age Discrimination (Goods, Facilities and Services) Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Ms Claire Sugden on .
- MLA
- Ms Claire Sugden
- Party at the time
- Independent
- Date
- 20 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Age Discrimination (Goods, Facilities and Services) Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5798729
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That is where the Bill differentiates a little bit from the Equality Act 2010, insofar as it does not create the blanket exemption that you see across in GB. There could be opportunities to address that issue. However, it is important to point out that that would be on the basis of asking insurance companies that are charging higher premiums to provide actuarial evidence for doing so. That is, to an extent, why we have a clause for that in that part of the Bill. We will look at that. There could be very good reasons as to why premiums are higher in Northern Ireland than they are elsewhere, but, equally, if insurers are not substantiating that, they will find themselves in difficulties.
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