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  1. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for giving way, and I regret the tone in which the debate has now kicked off. I want to make a sincere point: the Bill references "gender identity" — there is no getting away from that fact; it is in this blue Bill — and it is noted that this is the first time that Northern Ireland would legislate…

    Flagged Decided on a second assessment. Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues

  2. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. She has based this argument on a gay person going to a parent, but, in the Bill, we have a loose definition of "gender identity". If a child says to their mum or dad, "I am an animal", and that parent says, "You're going to have to think about this for a couple of years", that is…

    Flagged Decided on a second assessment. Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues Criteria met: Dog-whistle messaging.

  3. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for giving way. Rather than being more strategic, the DUP has become more refined in its arguments. Basically, it is the same as when I was a young lad and we had the campaign to "Save Ulster from Sodomy". It is basically the same thing, is it not?

    Flagged Decided on a second assessment. Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues Criteria met: Identity framing, Controversy escalation.

  4. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    The Member is raising her voice. There is no need to raise your voice; this is a very good debate. It is not about "changing"; it is "changing or suppressing". When you look at the definition of "conversion therapy", you see that, if a 14-year-old girl goes to a parent and says, "I think I'm a boy", and that parent…

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  5. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    The Bill defines "conversion therapy" as, first: "counselling or any form of talking therapy". It then defines it as including "coaching", which could be any form of coaching, or "instruction". That would be instruction from either a parent, a teacher, a pastor or a preacher on sexual orientation and transgender…

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  6. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. She talks about torture practices, but does she deem counselling, any form of talking therapy, coaching and instruction to be torture therapies?

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  7. Debate contribution: Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill: Second Stage

    Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. As party colleagues have done, I support the Bill. At the outset, I thank the Bill sponsor for the work that he has done to bring his Bill before the House. It is a careful, considered piece of legislation. It is well drafted and has obviously been well thought out. I…

    Flagged Decided on a second assessment. Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues Criteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.

  8. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    Your recollection of that meeting is right, but a different discussion took place today about a sitting on Wednesday. We gave an assurance to the SDLP that we would conclude the business on the Display of Flags and Emblems Bill today, with the understanding that we would not sit tomorrow and that the debate on the…

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  9. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Thank you for that clarification, but the Business Committee met today and had an agreement on today's business, in that we were to conclude this item, which we have just finished. It was my understanding that the sitting was to end at that point and that the Conversion Practices…

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  10. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Mr Gordon Lyons DUP
    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I believe that you have received correspondence from the Economy Minister, who asserts that I placed inaccurate information on the Assembly record at my last Question Time by stating that I had not received a response from her regarding the draft Irish language strategy. The Minister…

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  11. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. My colleague across the Chamber referred to the Business Committee today: the House should know that the DUP threatened not only to frustrate the business of the Assembly in the Chamber but to thwart the work of Committees today. If we have five Members left to speak and…

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  12. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    Thank you for allowing me in again, Mr Speaker. The Bill sponsor proposed that we have a sitting tomorrow. We had a long debate about that in the Business Committee, and we left in agreement and with the understanding that we would finish the business tonight. Members on these Benches are giving an assurance, for the…

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  13. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Ms Liz Kimmins SF
    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    I have lost track of whom I am responding to at this stage. I am also content for it to proceed to the vote. I am keen for the Bill to progress so that it can go to the Committee and the Committee can do its work. We have heard numerous iterations of the same thing and people's views on the same issues. It is…

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  14. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. You know well that I suggested at the Business Committee today that we come back tomorrow and, if we do not complete, we come back on Thursday. As far as I am concerned, that would have been two full plenary days that I was up for. I also said that I would be prepared to work through…

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  15. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. You will know that, this week — of course, you will not know about last week — efforts were made in the Business Committee to curtail Members in the House from speaking. We made a commitment today that we would give an assurance to the House that this would be finished…

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  16. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    Further to previous points of order, Mr Speaker, under Standing Order 25, can you offer any guidance on brevity, which is no sin, to the remaining six Members? Sometimes it is something that I am accused of not abiding by, but Members across the Chamber are acting in shock and horror that people want to bring the…

    Not flagged

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