Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 2:15 pm on 17 June 2024.
The commissioner designate and her office continue to represent the needs, rights and interests of all victims of crime. I am very grateful for the engagement that the commissioner designate and her team have taken forward with victims and their families and for her identification of priority areas for change. Not only has she been instrumental in amplifying the voices of victims of crimes to promote better service delivery and compliance with the victims' charter, she has been critical to the driving up of the protection of victims' data and privacy. In the next number of weeks, I hope that she will join us at the Criminal Justice Board on a trial basis, so that she will have a seat at the table as we make decisions about crucial issues such as speeding up justice.