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Share your views: The Bill proposes offences relating to: ✔ Providing conversion therapy ✔ Coercive conversion behaviour ✔ Taking a person outside Northern Ireland for conversion practices 🔗 lk.cmte.fyi/ConversionPracti… 📅 Deadline: 1 October 2026 See less
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The Committee wants to hear your views on a proposed change to the Child Funeral Fund in Northern Ireland. 📅:Closing Date: 30th September 2026 🔗: lk.cmte.fyi/SocialFund
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Share your views: The Bill proposes offences relating to: ✔ Providing conversion therapy ✔ Coercive conversion behaviour ✔ Taking a person outside Northern Ireland for conversion practices 🔗 lk.cmte.fyi/ConversionPracti… 📅 Deadline: 1 October 2026 See less
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The Committee wants to hear your views on regulations for a temporary scheme providing financial help with home heating oil costs. Find out more and how to respond at: niassembly.gov.uk/assembly-b…
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The Conversion Practices (Criminalisation) Bill seeks to end conversion practices in Northern Ireland through the creation of new criminal offences. The Committee calls for evidence. 📅 Closes: 1 October 2026 🔗 lk.cmte.fyi/ConversionPracti…
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The Committee are seeking views: The Bill proposes three new criminal offences: • Providing conversion therapy • Engaging in coercive conversion behaviour • Removing a person from Northern Ireland for conversion practices 📅 Closes: 1 October 2026 🔗 lk.cmte.fyi/ConversionPracti…
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The Housing (Amendment) Bill aims to give people threatened with homelessness access to support earlier by changing the current 28-day timeframe to at least 60 days. 🔗 lk.cmte.fyi/HousingAmendment… 📅 Closing date: 3 September 2026
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Could earlier intervention help prevent homelessness? The Housing (Amendment) Bill proposes allowing people at risk of homelessness to seek assistance sooner by extending the notification period from 28 to 60 days. 📅 Closes: 3 September 2026 🔗 lk.cmte.fyi/HousingAmendment…
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Have your say on proposed changes to charity law in Northern Ireland. 📅 Closes: 10 September 2026 🔗Submit your views: lk.cmte.fyi/CharitiesBill
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Missed our meeting this week or want to watch again? Head to niassembly.tv to see our meeting, including an update from @CommunitiesNI on the Charities (Amendment) Bill. We want to know what you think about the Bill – have your say at lk.cmte.fyi/CharitiesBill
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Last week we held an informal meeting with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development. Watch below to find out more and hear our Chairs talk about this opportunity to strengthen relationships.
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An informal meeting was held with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development, building on a previous visit to Dublin. The Chairs said it was a "valuable opportunity to strengthen relationships, share experience and learn from one another"
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We were delighted to hold our weekly meeting at @OFiaichLibrary where we heard about the work of our hosts, Armagh U3A, Mellon Centre for Migration Studies and @ArmRLib. Before the meeting, Members took a tour of the Library and Archive to see some items from the collections.
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On significant and long-awaited day for the Deaf and DeafBlind communities, BSL and ISL users, our Chair @GildernewColm was delighted to meet members of the communities ahead of the Sign Language Bill's Final Stage.
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During #HAW25 we held a meeting focusing on current issues on homelessness and the Supporting People Programme. Read our report based on the evidence received on the day here: niassembly.gov.uk/assembly-b…
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Yesterday’s Consideration Stage debate on the Sign Language Bill was constructive, detailed, and showed a clear commitment across the Assembly to strengthening accessibility and supporting the deaf community. Watch the session back on Assembly TV: niassembly.tv/
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Much of the progress seen during Consideration Stage reflected the detailed scrutiny carried out earlier at Committee Stage. @NIA_Communities played a pivotal role in shaping a stronger, more inclusive Bill.
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As well as this, Members agreed to widen the description of people who are included in the Bill's definition of deaf community. This will now include anyone who would benefit from using BSL or ISL, for example people who have become deaf later in life.
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They also considered changes aimed at enhancing scrutiny and accountability, including stronger Assembly approval mechanisms for regulations and increasing the frequency of progress reports from every five years to every three.
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During the session, MLAs examined amendments designed to expand access to BSL/ISL classes, ensuring they are available free of charge to more young people, and to strengthen requirements for public bodies to engage with groups genuinely representing the deaf community.
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Yesterday, the NI Assembly completed Consideration Stage of the Sign Language Bill — a key point in the legislative process where MLAs debated and voted on proposed amendments.
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