Speeches by Hanna.

“We have been here before, and we get really good strategy documents that are then not matched up with funding. Warm, healthy homes, if delivered and realised, would be transformative and make individual households more energy-secure or at least efficient. Are you confident about the delivery of that and it being transl…”

“I do not think that people want to quibble on numbers, but Ellie Flanagan and Amy Doherty became the 29th and 30th women killed since 2020. The comparable figures for England, for example, show that we have a femicide rate that is almost twice that of the island next door and certainly of the south. I think that we are…”

“One of the lingering legacies of violence in Northern Ireland is our outrageous and distressing levels of violence against women and girls, in the echo of menace and threat that still exists in Northern Ireland. The murders this month of Ellie Flanagan and Amy Doherty bring to 33 the number of women and girls who have …”

“I thank the hon. Member for all her efforts on behalf of victims of the troubles and others. This is a chance to put in place accountability mechanisms that we should have put in place decades ago, particularly for those who do not have a judicial pathway. Families in Derry know what happened in their city on Bloody Su…”

“Do you see a link between online abuse and a lack of consequence for that? Do you see a higher level of that in Northern Ireland that would correlate with the higher levels of violence?”

“Minister, my colleague is going to pick up with you actions that the UK Government are taking to keep people safe online, but I wanted to ask about your assessment of online violence against women and girls in Northern Ireland, links you see between the online and offline worlds, and the statistics that you have spoken…”

“It is longevity, but is the education and the things that we are doing in schools now with young people a big part of the strategy? That is what I am trying to say.”

“You mentioned education. Obviously education policy is devolved. Are there are there good practices on relationships and sexual education that you think are useful in tackling this issue that maybe are not in place in Northern Ireland? Is that something you have had an opportunity to explore?”

“Minister, Gavin touched on the inter-ministerial group opportunity. In your correspondence to our Committee last year, you said that you would welcome more mechanisms for engagement. Do you have the space to engage on an ongoing basis with the Executive and others as well? Women’s Aid is at the centre of a lot of posit…”

“We have seen this play out before: a US rush to military escalation with no plan for what comes next. We have seen schoolgirls bombed in Iran, whole families killed in Lebanon, chaos in a region already scarred by repression and genocide, and economic shocks that hurt the most vulnerable at home. In Irish, there is a p…”

“This is probably a question for Rob and Miles. Do the NCA have a view on the recently commissioned scoping exercise by the UK and Irish Governments into paramilitary group transition?”

“Are you confident that that is not what is happening, and that when interventions are made, they are intelligence-led?”

“I think we have largely covered some of the issues around data collection. On extraction, we have heard submissions to the Committee about the lack of data collection and about immigration actions that appear to be not intelligence-led, but rather based on visual evidence—the colour of people’s skin. Are you confident …”

“Can you think of a reason why a company like that, with no discernible trading footprint and those assets, which have been widely reported in the media, has not been investigated by law enforcement agencies?”

“Is a shop called Green Cross (Art and Bookshop) Ltd on your radar? Based on that information, which has been widely available in the media, would the NCA investigate it?”

“Our Committee’s papers indicate that you are currently investigating around £1.5 million of assets linked to crime and paramilitary groups. If you became aware of a company, for example a bookshop, that appeared to have £200,000 of assets or more but no discernible commercial activity—no premises, no staff, no online t…”

“Do you or other law enforcement agencies have the necessary tools, powers, legislation and political cover to go after the ill-gotten gains of those linked to paramilitary organisations, or are other tools or legislation required?”

“Given the role of groups like the UVF, UDA, CIRA and the INLA in organised crime, particularly in drug supply, would you assess their activity as primarily political or primarily criminal? Therefore, do you think that a political agreement is likely to have an impact on their criminal activity and bring it to an end?”

“Are you confident that that is not what is happening, and that when interventions are made, they are intelligence-led?”

“This is probably a question for Rob and Miles. Do the NCA have a view on the recently commissioned scoping exercise by the UK and Irish Governments into paramilitary group transition?”