Parliamentary search - Northern Ireland (St. Andrews Agreement) (No. 2) Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

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458 c1306-54

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2006-07

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Northern Ireland Office

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Committee stage, Third reading, Report stage and Second reading

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Programme motions

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House of Commons chamber

Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) (No 2) Bill 2006-07. Explanatory notes Bill 84-EN also published.
Tuesday, 27 March 2007
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Proceeding contributions

Lord Bannside | 458 c1316-7, (corrigendum) 1612;458 c1316-7 (Link to this contribution) This is a good day for the House, a good day for our United Kingdom and a good day for the whole of ...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 458 c1335 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect to the hon. Lady, that is not the message that we are getting from traditi...

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Lady Hermon | 458 c1335 (Link to this contribution) That is very generous indeed of the hon. Gentleman. He has just exemplified the generosity of spirit...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 458 c1335-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. He is absolutely right. I believe that the hon. ...

Lord Bannside | 458 c1335 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a fact that the election is over? The people have made a decision. The party of the hon. M...

Ben Wallace | 458 c1340-3 (Link to this contribution) It is interesting to follow the hon. Member for Blaydon (Mr. Anderson). I am sure that throughout my...

David Anderson | 458 c1337-40 (Link to this contribution) A lot of people present in the Chamber have come a long way to get where we are today. I was just th...

Nicholas Winterton | 458 c1344 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a very gracious speech and adding a great deal to the debate, much of which ...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 458 c1343-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to participate briefly in this debate. I want to start by congrat...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 458 c1344-7 (Link to this contribution) Members come to this debate with many different emotions and feelings. Some are full of elation and ...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 458 c1344 (Link to this contribution) I do indeed agree with those comments. I have already paid tribute to the right hon. Member for Nort...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 458 c1335 (Link to this contribution) The conditions need to be right. That is why we are continuing the discussions with the Government a...

Mike Hall | 458 c1327-8 (Link to this contribution) I add my congratulations to those of other Members to everyone who was involved in the discussions t...

Eddie McGrady | 458 c1331-3 (Link to this contribution) The hand of history seems to have touched the people of Northern Ireland once again and another hist...

Peter Robinson | 458 c1331 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Secretary of State, whose intervention will be welcomed by all the parties...

Lord Hain | 458 c1330-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman’s speech and the eloquence with which he makes his contribution. I wish...

Peter Robinson | 458 c1328-30 (Link to this contribution) There is one certainty in politics: when there is an historic moment of progress and promise there w...

Lady Hermon | 458 c1335 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 458 c1334-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has missed the whole momentum and tenor of this debate. Her nitpicking and pettiness d...

Lady Hermon | 458 c1334 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the House that in the recent Assembly elections the Democratic Unionist party had only ...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 458 c1333-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to participate in the debate this afternoon. May I say how much we appreci...

Mark Durkan | 458 c1321-5 (Link to this contribution) Thankfully, unlike much of the tortuous process of the past number of years, what we have in front o...

Lord Cormack | 458 c1325-7 (Link to this contribution) We can all agree with the last words of the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan). I have gently chid...

Lembit Opik | 458 c1320 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. Contrary to all predictions in the Chamber—apart from mine—the Alliance increased the number...

Lord Cormack | 458 c1320 (Link to this contribution) I think the hon. Gentleman is being a little unrealistic and a little churlish. I also think he shou...

Lembit Opik | 458 c1320-1 (Link to this contribution) I am encouraged to hear that. It is symptomatic of the positive changes that have taken place this y...

Lord Bannside | 458 c1320 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that we met all the parties, and have agreements with them on how we wil...

Lembit Opik | 458 c1319-20 (Link to this contribution) However long or short a time that may take, I believe it will happen. My colleagues in the Alliance...

Lord Cormack | 458 c1319 (Link to this contribution) He will have a long while to wait, I fear.

Lembit Opik | 458 c1320 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear the Secretary of State’s words, but I can tell him that there are individuals w...

Lord Hain | 458 c1320 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what the hon. Gentleman is saying, and I think that the leadership shown by the right h...

Lembit Opik | 458 c1319 (Link to this contribution) I will leave the hon. Gentleman to check Hansard with regard to his former question, but on the latt...

Lembit Opik | 458 c1317-8 (Link to this contribution) Having listened to the contribution of the right hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley), I ...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 458 c1318 (Link to this contribution) I thought that I heard the Secretary of State say earlier—I may be wrong—that he had always been pre...

David Lidington | 458 c1316 (Link to this contribution) I would be pleased if Sinn Fein Members dropped their policy of abstention. When I made that point t...

Viscount Hailsham | 458 c1315 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with what my hon. Friend says about the responsibilities of the Northern Ireland pa...

David Lidington | 458 c1315 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Lady will forgive me if I do not intervene in that particular battle on the Uni...

Iris Robinson | 458 c1315 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the hon. Member for North Down (Lady Hermon) appears to be so hun...

David Lidington | 458 c1315 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that the calls to the DUP’s headquarters are probably a reflection not just of their suppo...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 458 c1315 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that the Democratic Unionist party has been inundated with messages of s...

David Lidington | 458 c1314 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State. Like him, I am encouraged by those demonstrations of suppor...

Lord Hain | 458 c1314 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree with the hon. Gentleman. In that respect, I am encouraged by a whole series of in...

David Lidington | 458 c1314-5 (Link to this contribution) Unlike the hon. Lady, I have not yet had the pleasure of reading the report by my right hon. and lea...

Lady Hermon | 458 c1314 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will be well aware that his colleague, the right hon. and learned ...

Lord Hain | 458 c1312 (Link to this contribution) I think that I will leave that description to the newspapers, with my hon. Friend’s assistance. Howe...

Lord Hain | 458 c1312 (Link to this contribution) I have to say yes. In a republican area of Belfast there is graffiti saying, ““Hain is insane””. [In...

Ronnie Campbell | 458 c1312 (Link to this contribution) It was great to see the politicians come together yesterday, but does my right hon. Friend not agree...

Lord Hain | 458 c1313 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend. There have been signs of progress in that direction for a num...

David Lidington | 458 c1313-4 (Link to this contribution) On the Conservative Benches we welcome the Bill and it will have our support this afternoon. The Gov...

Lord Hain | 458 c1312 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. There have been tens of thousands, if not hundreds of ...

Lord Bannside | 458 c1312 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Secretary of State does not leave out the people who keep the shops going when they ...

Lord Hain | 458 c1311-2 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more strongly with my hon. Friend about the role played by the trade union movemen...

David Anderson | 458 c1311 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that while it is right and proper to praise both John Major and th...

Jim Devine | 458 c1312 (Link to this contribution) May I place on record my appreciation for the work that my right hon. Friend has done in bringing ab...

Lord Hain | 458 c1310 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend’s support. This is a tremendous time for hope and progress, as I shall expl...

Viscount Hailsham | 458 c1311 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that we have reached a turning point, and no doubt that is true. Would...

Lord Hain | 458 c1311 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes an interesting point, but it is not a point for us today....

Lady Hermon | 458 c1310 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will know that thousands of people voted at the ballot box on the understandi...

Lord Hain | 458 c1310-1 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Lady’s role in the peace process over many years, and I shall explain why ...

Patrick Hall | 458 c1309-10 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will have encountered the understandable deep caution and occasional cynicism o...

Lord Hain | 458 c1309 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I thank the House for its indulgence in all...

Lord Hanson of Flint | 458 c1351 (Link to this contribution) Five.

Lord Hanson of Flint | 458 c1352-4 (Link to this contribution) May I say what a constructive debate we have had? There is a rare and bold spirit of optimism in the...

Laurence Robertson | 458 c1354 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will be aware that an awful lot of important legislation has been passed through statut...

Lord Hanson of Flint | 458 c1354 (Link to this contribution) I would very much like to give that guarantee, but I cannot for the simple reason that legislation m...

Jeremy Corbyn | 458 c1347-9 (Link to this contribution) First, I apologise for not being here at the start of the debate. I was attending events in my const...

David Simpson | 458 c1349-50 (Link to this contribution) I was interested in the Secretary of State’s comments in the early part of his speech, particularly ...

Sammy Wilson | 458 c1350-1 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday has been described as a good day for Northern Ireland, and I believe that there are a numb...

Keith Vaz | 458 c1312 (Link to this contribution) I do not want this to sound like a love-in, but the Secretary of State has been described during thi...

Sammy Wilson | 458 c1351-2 (Link to this contribution) However, the Minister did not get five salaries. Northern Ireland business was put through this Hous...

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Devolution

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Assembly

Political parties

Northern Ireland government

St Andrews Agreement

Legislation

Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) (No. 2) Bill 2006-07

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