Motion or amendment: Paramilitary Groups Transition from Violence and Crime
Motion or amendment by Mr Stewart Dickson on .
- MLA
- Mr Stewart Dickson
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 25 February 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Paramilitary Groups Transition from Violence and Crime
- Assembly identifier
- Document 429865
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Paramilitary Groups Transition from Violence and Crime
That this Assembly categorically opposes proposals from the UK and Irish Governments to appoint an independent expert to scope out a new process of engagement to bring about paramilitary group transition to disbandment; agrees that, more than 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, there is no place for paramilitarism in our society, and that such groups should either immediately disband or face a robust law enforcement approach like other organised crime gangs; welcomes the work of the Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime; and calls on the UK and Irish Governments to abandon plans for this scoping and engagement exercise and reinvest the associated funding in law enforcement approaches to paramilitary activity.
124 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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- 10 March 2025: Paramilitary Groups Transition from Violence and Crime – The Motion, As Amended, Was Carried
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