Committee for Communities

Committee Stage - Sign Language Bill

Written Submissions

Below you will find a list of transcriptions of signed responses and written submissions received by the Committee as part of its consideration of the Sign Language Bill.

Citizen Space responses

• Citizen Space response 1 - Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 36KB)
• Citizen Space response 2 – AdaptNI (PDF, 7 pages, 29KB)

• Citizen Space response 3 - Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 36KB)
• Citizen Space response 4 - Individual (PDF, 11 pages, 35KB)
• Citizen Space response 5 - Deaf OAP N.I. (PDF, 4 pages, 19KB)
• Citizen Space response 6 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 33KB)
• Citizen Space response 7 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 32KB)
• Citizen Space response 8 - Faculty of Public Health (PDF, 4 pages, 21KB)
• Citizen Space response 9 – Individual (PDF, 9 pages, 32KB)
• Citizen Space response 10 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 20KB)
• Citizen Space response 11 – Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 24KB)
• Citizen Space response 12 – Individual (PDF, 9 pages, 35KB)
• Citizen Space response 13 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 20KB)
• Citizen Space response 14 - Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 25KB)
• Citizen Space response 15 – Individual (PDF, 7 pages, 29KB)

• Citizen Space response 16 – Hands That Talk (PDF, 9 pages, 33KB)

• Citizen Space response 17 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 20KB)

• Citizen Space response 18 – Individual (PDF, 8 pages, 58KB)

• Citizen Space response 19 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 22KB)

• Citizen Space response 20 – British Deaf Association (PDF, 7 pages, 32KB)

• Citizen Space response 21 – Individual (PDF, 9 pages, 50KB)

• Citizen Space response 22 - Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (PDF, 4 pages, 21KB)

• Citizen Space response 23 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 21KB)

• Citizen Space response 24 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 20KB)

• Citizen Space response 25 – RNID (PDF, 6 pages, 26KB)

• Citizen Space response 26 – Belfast City Council (PDF, 4 pages, 20KB)

• Citizen Space response 27 - British Standards Institution, Northern Ireland (PDF, 5 pages, 22KB)

• Citizen Space response 28 – Individual (PDF, 8 pages, 46KB)

• Citizen Space response 29 - Mid and East Antrim Borough Council (PDF, 3 pages, 18KB)

• Citizen Space response 30 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 21KB)

• Citizen Space response 31 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 19KB)

• Citizen Space response 32 – Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 22KB)

• Citizen Space response 33 – Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 26KB)

• Citizen Space response 34 - University of the West of England Bristol (PDF, 5 pages, 25KB)

• Citizen Space response 35 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 21KB)
• Citizen Space response 36 – Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 41KB)
• Citizen Space response 37 – Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 35KB)
• Citizen Space response 38 – Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 39KB)
• Citizen Space response 39 -  Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 25KB)
• Citizen Space response 40 -  Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 30KB)
• Citizen Space response 41 -  Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 31KB)
• Citizen Space response 42 -  Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 34KB)

Signed video transcriptions

• Video transcription 1  - Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 123KB)

• Video transcription 2 - Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 116KB)

• Video transcription 3 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 112KB)

• Video transcription 4 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 103KB)

• Video transcription 5 - Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 119KB)

• Video transcription 6 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 83KB)

• Video transcription 7 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 93KB)

• Video transcription 8 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 90KB)

• Video transcription 9 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 99KB)

• Video transcription 10 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 106KB)

• Video transcription 11 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 93KB)

• Video transcription 12 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 96KB)

• Video transcription 13 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 93KB)

• Video transcription 14 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 96KB)

• Video transcription 15 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 96KB)

• Video transcription 16 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 93KB)

• Video transcription 17 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 96KB)

• Video transcription 18 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 93KB)

• Video transcription 19 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 95KB) 

• Video transcription 20 - Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 119KB)

• Video transcription 21 - Individual (PDF, 7pages, 141KB)

• Video transcription 22 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 97KB)

• Video transcription 23 - Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 130KB)

• Video transcription 24 - Individual (PDF, 8 pages, 140KB)

• Video transcription 25 - Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 120KB)

• Video transcription 26 - Individual (PDF, 4 pages, 99KB)

• Video transcription 28 - Individual (PDF, 7 pages, 123KB)

• Video transcription 30 - Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 117KB)

• Video transcription 32 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 96KB)

• Video transcription 33 - Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 120KB)

• Video transcription 34 - Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 112KB)

• Video transcription 35 - Individual (PDF, 6 pages, 115KB)

• Video transcription 36 - Individual (PDF, 8 pages, 141KB)

• Video transcription 37 - Individual (PDF, 10 pages, 153KB)

• Video transcription 38 - Individual (PDF, 5 pages, 109KB)

• Video transcription 39 - Individual (PDF, 8 pages, 147KB)

• Video transcription 40 - Individual (PDF, 14 pages, 180KB)

• Video transcription 41 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 93KB)

• Video transcription 42 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 97KB)

• Video transcription 43 - Individual (PDF, 9 pages, 131KB)

• Video transcription 44 - Individual (PDF, 3 pages, 98KB)

Please note three video responses (numbers 27, 29 and 31) contained no information and so are not being published.

Other written submissions

• Written submission 1- Royal College of Psychiatrists NI (PDF, 18 pages, 248KB)

• Written submission 2- Equality Commission NI (PDF, 13 pages, 247KB)

• Written submission 3 - National Deaf Children’s Society (PDF, 8 pages, 262KB)

• Written submission 4- National Deaf Children’s Society – Sign Language Bill Survey Report PDF, 8 pages, 1367KB)

• Written submission 5 - National Deaf Children’s Society – follow up information (PDF, 2 pages, 383KB)

• Written submission 6 - Cregagh Primary School (PDF, 18 pages, 154KB)

• Written submission 7- Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) (PDF, 4 pages, 160KB)

• Written submission 8 - Action Deaf Youth (PDF, 125 pages, 5136KB)

• Written submission 9 – Foyle Deaf Association (PDF, 20 pages, 201KB)

• Written submission 10- Foyle Deaf Association – presentation (PDF, 14 pages, 120KB)

• Written submission 11- Deaf Women’s Group Northern Ireland (PDF, 20 pages, 188KB)

• Written submission 12- RNID – follow up information (PDF, 2 pages, 4675KB)

• Written submission 13 – Auditory Verbal UK email (PDF, 1 page, 48KB)

• Written submission 14 – Individual (PDF, 21 pages, 208KB)

Please note six further email submisssions were received and considered as part of the report but are not being published.