Debate contribution: Multi-year Budget: Departmental Priorities
Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 13 October 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Multi-year Budget: Departmental Priorities
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5175841
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On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am concerned that the Justice Minister may have misled the Chamber in her answer to questions about Bailey the dog: specifically, that prison officers are and were trained in the deployment of emotional support dogs, including Bailey; and, secondly, that a suitability assessment was carried out before Bailey was placed in the prison. I engaged with the director general of the Northern Ireland Prison Service and the governor of Magilligan prison, and they said that that was not the case. The Minister needs to clarify and correct the record, if appropriate.
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