Motion or amendment: Failure to Transform the Criminal Justice System - Amendment 1
Motion or amendment by Ms Connie Egan on .
- MLA
- Ms Connie Egan
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 2 October 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Failure to Transform the Criminal Justice System”
- Heading
- Failure to Transform the Criminal Justice System - Amendment 1
- Assembly identifier
- Document 452519
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Failure to Transform the Criminal Justice System - Amendment 1
Leave out all after ‘alarmed that’ and insert:
‘regular Assembly collapse and consistent underfunding of the justice system has contributed to this outcome and undermined strategies and policy development; notes the increasing need to tackle the factors that contribute to delay, including long police investigations, slow prosecutorial decision-making and cases not ready to proceed at court; further notes that delay may have the perverse effect of allowing those remanded to be released for time-served at the time of sentencing; highlights the negative impact this has on victims and wider public confidence in the criminal justice system; recognises that senior justice leaders are taking forward system-wide change through the Speeding up Justice Programme; and calls on the Minister of Justice to outline her action plan for development of a shared future vision and wider measures, through the Speeding up Justice Programme, aimed at reducing avoidable delay, freeing capacity and facilitating more proportionate and effective responses to offending behaviours.’
167 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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