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

    I thank the Member for the intervention. The answer is yes. That parent is protected and will be protected, because they have not met the harm threshold and do not have the intent of coercive control. However, morally, there is an argument that, as a parent, you have to ask yourself, "Am I doing harm?". It might not…

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

    • Mr Paul Givan DUP
    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    I appreciate the Member's giving way. She has referenced parents on a number of occasions. So that I can understand this, can the Member tell me whether there are any circumstances in which the Member or the Bill sponsor believes that a parent can say to their child, "I do not agree with you. I do not agree with how…

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

    I thank the Member for giving way. The Member is allowing her prejudice to cloud her judgement here. Set aside your prejudice against the DUP and what you think. Think about the people and about the unintended consequences that the legislation will have outside these doors. That is what scrutiny is about, and that is…

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

    I thank the Member for his intervention. I will move on to my next point. Before I took the intervention, I discussed mental health in the LGBT community and said that conversion therapy cannot continue to exist. That is not just my view, my colleague's view or the Alliance Party's view; it is the view of multiple…

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

    I thank the Member for giving way. The Chair of the Justice Committee is well versed in this process and has been through it with a number of Bills. He knows that, when dealing with a potentially broad range of behaviours, the approach that is taken in criminal law is to outline the intent, the act and the…

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

    You are telling me that those are not contained in the Bill, which is explicit about the intent to suppress, about coercive control and about the reasonable test of harm. If you had read the Bill, you would see that those definitions exist. You are contradicting yourself.

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

    That is not why you are perplexed about it. Let us be honest: you are not perplexed. You do not support the Bill in its entirety. Do you even support banning conversion therapy? Not one DUP Member has said what they would change in the Bill to enable them to support banning conversion therapy.

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

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I really appreciate it. What she has said is very clear, but what she told us at the start of her contribution was that, if we truly wanted to ban harmful practices, we should support the Bill to ban conversion therapy. The problem is that, in the Bill's definition, conversion…

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

    I support the legislation that Eóin introduced. I congratulate him on bringing forward such significant legislation, which, for once, will put Northern Ireland at the forefront of LGBT rights. We should be proud of that in the Assembly. Well, those of us who support the Bill should be. Such quack practices are the…

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

    There is a definition that came from Einstein, I believe: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." The same can be said about asking the same thing over and over again and expecting a different answer. Just because it does not suit Members' narrative does not mean that…

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

    We all thought that using the single transferable voting system took long to count votes. The single transferable speeching system also has us here all night, but, yes, debate is important.

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

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    The Member raises an important point. Does suppressing sexual orientation also refer to suppressing heterosexuality? If parents have someone at home who is heterosexual and has displayed that through his or her behaviour, and the parents suppress that, would they fall foul of the Bill?

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

    I appreciate the Bill sponsor's honest answer, and I do not doubt his sincerity in that regard. To a degree, he is right in that some of the Bill could be worked through, but I have spent time highlighting the bits of the Bill that are so dangerous — I will use that word — and, certainly, distressing to me that I will…

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

    I thank the Member for giving way. As I discussed in my opening remarks and in other interventions, the "fear, alarm or distress" formulation was selected in order to be consistent with domestic abuse law. However, I have already indicated to Members that the harm threshold is a policy choice for the Assembly. If…

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

    No, I will not; I am sorry. I am genuinely disappointed. Perhaps she has not been in the Chamber for the entire debate and did not hear my speech, but I say to the Member opposite that I have done my best to be respectful and honest and to bravely reflect the views that my party and I have on the issue. I hope that I…

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

    It is clear that the Member opposite has not been in the Chamber for the whole debate. She came in earlier, made an intervention and then showed huge discourtesy by leaving, and then she came back. If she had been in the Chamber for your remarks, she would know that you read out comments from members of the gay…

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