Debate contribution: Family Law: ‘Totally Invisible’ Report

Debate contribution by Ms Sian Mulholland on 28 April 2026.

MLA: Ms Sian Mulholland
Party at the time: Alliance Party
Date: 28 April 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Family Law: ‘Totally Invisible’ Report
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5509917

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Minister, do you agree that, where domestic abuse and coercive control are present, the starting point must be the child — their voice and point of view — and that there should not be an assumption that contact with a parent is always beneficial?

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

Part of an exchange

This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 3490/22-27.

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