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I can reassure the Member absolutely that it will not be half a Bill. The sentencing Bill is a much wider Bill in its policy extent and size. Whilst the Justice Bill is wide in scope, it is, as the Member will understand, narrow in focus and technical in nature. The victims Bill is much wider-ranging. It covers many…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice Bill
I thank the Minister for her answer. I was going to ask her when she will publish the missing parts of her Justice Bill. I am also concerned about when the Minister will introduce the sentencing Bill. Can she reassure the House that it will not be half a Bill?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice Bill
Given that most external organisations generally comment on the policy intent of a Bill rather than its clauses, it would probably be wise to consult on the policy content of the entire Bill, which is known to the Committee now. However, if the Committee wishes to wait, as is its wont, until it has all the clauses,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice Bill Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice Bill
Although not part of the formal REC project, arrangements have been made to allow male and female victims of domestic abuse to give remote evidence from the Fermanagh Women's Aid building in Enniskillen. Officials are involved in discussions with partners to establish similar arrangements in the Foyle family justice…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Domestic Abuse Contest Courts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Domestic Abuse Contest Courts
Will the Minister clarify whether any arrangements similar to those in Belfast and Craigavon are in place elsewhere?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Domestic Abuse Contest Courts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Domestic Abuse Contest Courts
Since December 2023, the Belfast remote evidence centre (REC) has hosted domestic abuse contest courts. On a DACC day, several contests are listed to run consecutively, with all victims giving their evidence from the REC. There have been four DACC days to date: 12 December, 11 March, 13 May and 23 December. A total of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Domestic Abuse Contest Courts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Domestic Abuse Contest Courts
The roll-out will cost £134,000 in 2025-26 and £139,000 in 2026-27. It is really important to recognise the impact that the adult SOLAs have had on the willingness of victims and witnesses, who are often also victims, to turn up and give evidence in court and on their feeling supported and empowered in doing so. That…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sexual Offences Legal Advisers: Children's Service Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sexual Offences Legal Advisers: Children's Service
I thank the Minister for that answer. Minister, will you outline the costs that might be associated with the roll-out of children's SOLAs?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sexual Offences Legal Advisers: Children's Service Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sexual Offences Legal Advisers: Children's Service
Cases involving sexual crime are obviously some of the most intrusive and difficult for victims to endure. The impact on children is understandably far more intense. I have met young victims and their families who have told me directly how challenging the criminal justice process can be. The adult sexual offences…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Sexual Offences Legal Advisers: Children's Service Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Sexual Offences Legal Advisers: Children's Service
I absolutely agree with the Member. The project is an excellent example of the use of a public health approach, which has been adopted by the tackling paramilitarism programme. It is about undertaking small-scale projects like this to address a specific issue, rigorously and robustly testing them, and looking to imbed…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Connect Project Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Connect Project
Thank you, Minister. Do you agree that learning from this project might be useful in other contexts, especially at a time when resources are so constrained and public services so stretched?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Connect Project Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Connect Project
The Connect project, which is funded through the Executive programme on tackling paramilitarism and organised crime and led by the Education Authority, provides professionally qualified youth workers, based in two emergency departments, to engage with and support vulnerable young people aged from 15 to 25, who are…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Connect Project Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tackling Paramilitarism and Organised Crime: Connect Project
The issue of a future review mechanism continues. It was one of the more complex issues in ensuring that there were no repercussive implications. NIPSA is very much part of that conversation, as will the other unions be. It is our intention, hopefully, to be in a position to confirm that with the unions as soon as…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI Civilian Staff: Revised Environmental Allowance Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI Civilian Staff: Revised Environmental Allowance
Minister, has a future review mechanism been agreed?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI Civilian Staff: Revised Environmental Allowance Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI Civilian Staff: Revised Environmental Allowance
I thank the Member for the question. I made a commitment to unions and police staff that I would work with the Chief Constable and the Department of Finance to resolve the issue of ensuring that staff are paid a meaningful rate of revised environmental allowance in recognition of the important role that they play in…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PSNI Civilian Staff: Revised Environmental Allowance Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PSNI Civilian Staff: Revised Environmental Allowance
May I ask a brief supplementary?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
Section 9(3) of the Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 amended the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 to extend the existing anonymity for victims of sexual offences and complainants in sexual offence cases for 25 years after their death. This amendment implemented a Gillen…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice (Sexual Offences and Trafficking Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
My Department has been proactive in taking difficult decisions to reduce the level of financial pressures to £48 million from £86 million after the June monitoring round. That has not been achieved without an adverse impact on the justice system, particularly but not solely on the PSNI in the recruitment of police…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Position Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Position
I thank the Minister for that answer. Minister, what actions have already been taken to live within budget?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Position Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Position
As reported to the Department of Finance in the urgent in-year budget information-gathering exercise, my Department is facing inescapable stabilisation pressures of £48 million. This position remains unchanged. In addition, my Department is facing exceptional pressures of £227 million in relation to legal claims from…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Position Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Justice: Budgetary Position
We have a recruitment campaign, which I believe is due to start this autumn. As you know, I had agreed that we should add to our complement of prison officers to ensure that prisoners and prison staff are safe in our establishments and that we are able to maximise the regime. When we are low on numbers, it is not…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour
Will the Minister provide an update on any NI Prison Service recruitment campaigns, particularly to help deal with the pressures of ever-increasing prisoner numbers?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour
I caution Members against assuming that every death in custody is under suspicious or other circumstances that may be of concern. Many deaths in custody are of natural causes, but we are not able to disclose that kind of detailed information in respect of individual prisoners until their families have been informed…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour
I understand that there was another death in custody at the weekend, bringing to four the total number of deaths in the past five weeks. It is a concerning picture. What is being done to tackle that situation?
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour
The Northern Ireland Prison Service takes any allegation of inappropriate behaviour by a member of staff seriously and has well-established mechanisms to investigate and respond. In the past five calendar years, 2019-23 and inclusive of 2024, 10 allegations of inappropriate behaviour led to disciplinary action and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Prison Service: Inappropriate Behaviour
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