Motion or amendment: The Executive’s Approach to Hate - Amendment 1

Motion or amendment by Mr Paul Frew on 18 September 2025.

MLA: Mr Paul Frew
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 18 September 2025
Type: Motion or amendment
Business: Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “The Executive’s Approach to Hate”
Heading: The Executive’s Approach to Hate - Amendment 1
Assembly identifier: Document 449970

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The Executive’s Approach to Hate - Amendment 1
Leave out all after ‘Northern Ireland’ and insert: ‘notes the recent Executive commitment to working in partnership with the PSNI, civic leaders, community organisations and statutory bodies to ensure that our streets, neighbourhoods, and communities reflect the values of equality and respect; calls on the Minister of Justice to detail, and consult on, her plans to include a statutory aggravation offence model for hate crime in sentencing legislation due to be introduced during this Assembly mandate; and further calls on the Minister to provide additional resources to the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunal Service, PSNI, and the Tackling Paramilitarism, Criminality and Organised Crime programme.’

112 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.