Debate contribution: Social Housing: Victims of Domestic Violence

Debate contribution by Ms Carál Ní Chuilín on 18 May 2026.

MLA: Ms Carál Ní Chuilín
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 18 May 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Social Housing: Victims of Domestic Violence
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5548489

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I thank the Minister for his response. In the same multi-agency approach, I have met the police, social workers and all the rest to try to support women in particular at this stage. I welcome the review, but, at the moment, a woman who flees her home with her babies in her arms gets the same 20 points as someone who has listened to a row in the next-door flat. I am sure that the Minister agrees that that is not fair and needs to be looked at with urgency.

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 3569/22-27.

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