Parliamentary search - Justice and Northern Ireland

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

508 c40-82

Session

2009-10

Department

Northern Ireland Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Northern Ireland Court Service (Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Amendment of Schedule 3) Order 2010
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Statutory instruments
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

William Cash | 508 c59 (Link to this contribution) But, with a general election coming, does the right hon. Gentleman believe that a substantial body o...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c57-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to participate in the debate. I declare an interest as a Member of the Nor...

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Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c59-60 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I believe—certainly, it is my experience—that a cle...

Alasdair McDonnell | 508 c60 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said that there would not be public confidence in a Sinn Fein Minister of J...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c60 (Link to this contribution) I am not implying that there would not be public confidence, but it is a matter for the SDLP to put ...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) I am very clear about what the Hillsborough agreement said, and it most certainly did not say that t...

Peter Robinson | 508 c61 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the work of the working group that was set up to deal with parades has not b...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c61 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for that comment, and he is right. The working group's representatives ...

Lady Hermon | 508 c61 (Link to this contribution) I should like to put it on record that, although earlier in the debate I expressed support for the C...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) We are clear that the Chief Constable's operational independence will not be open to interference by...

Mark Durkan | 508 c62 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way again—he has been generous. Does he recognise that t...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c61-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention, which raises a curious question. If members of the UUP h...

William Cash | 508 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a great privilege to follow the right hon. Member for North Antrim (Rev. Ian Paisley) on what ...

Peter Robinson | 508 c69-72 (Link to this contribution) Let me first pay tribute to my two colleagues who are leaving the House at the end of this Parliamen...

Lord Cormack | 508 c63-6 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Mr. Donaldson) made a powerful, statesmanlike speech and I v...

Mark Durkan | 508 c73 (Link to this contribution) The problem with the sunset clause is not simply that it requires political agreement, or that it im...

Lady Hermon | 508 c72 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson), the First Minister, for giv...

Peter Robinson | 508 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Lady for those comments. I believe that she has accurately reflected ...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) I was present in April 1998 during the final days that led up to what became known as the Belfast ag...

Peter Robinson | 508 c73 (Link to this contribution) Every journey is taken a step at a time. It is a fact that no agreement could be reached on a final ...

Mark Durkan | 508 c74 (Link to this contribution) I should like to refer to what the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Mr. Donaldson) has just said....

Peter Robinson | 508 c74 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. We have set our direction of travel, and I believe that it is the right one.

Paul Goggins | 508 c78 (Link to this contribution) I am more than happy to give way to my hon. Friend.

Mark Durkan | 508 c78 (Link to this contribution) We published a number of concordats and protocols relating to these measures, including one on the i...

Peter Robinson | 508 c74 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman indicates that the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly during the period of...

Laurence Robertson | 508 c75-7 (Link to this contribution) During the nearly five years in which I have done this Front-Bench job, I have dealt with many statu...

Paul Goggins | 508 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) This has been an excellent debate—which is highly appropriate, given that this is the last occasion ...

Paul Goggins | 508 c82 (Link to this contribution) Devolving policing and justice powers means that Northern Ireland's politicians can really get on no...

Mark Durkan | 508 c82 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister give way?

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 508 c79 (Link to this contribution) The Minister and I both served on the Standing Committee that considered the order to renew the legi...

Paul Goggins | 508 c79 (Link to this contribution) It is rather simpler than that. Three of the four criteria on the basis of which the DPP decides whe...

Mark Durkan | 508 c82 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. In the context of his reference to people still suffering pain ...

Paul Goggins | 508 c82 (Link to this contribution) First, I did not mean any discourtesy to my hon. Friend or to his constituents in not taking his int...

Paul Goggins | 508 c82 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry; I did not hear my hon. Friend. I am happy to give way.

Alistair Carmichael | 508 c45 (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Gentleman very much on the approach that he has outlined. The history in recent y...

Owen Paterson | 508 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has today made a written statement on the Saville inquiry. I thank him for th...

Shaun Woodward | 508 c42-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady asks an important question. Like many questions that she has asked in the course of th...

Owen Paterson | 508 c48 (Link to this contribution) I commented on that in my opening remarks. Some sensitive matters will be published in what will be ...

William Cash | 508 c48 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend believe that the outcome of the Bloody Sunday inquiry will not destabilise any o...

Owen Paterson | 508 c46-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for intervening, but I do not see why she cannot ask her party leader...

Lady Hermon | 508 c46 (Link to this contribution) I am the sole voice of the Ulster Unionist party in this House, and although I am happy to support t...

Owen Paterson | 508 c46 (Link to this contribution) I will come to that. Even if any Member of this House had had misgivings about the vote on 9 March,...

Alistair Carmichael | 508 c46 (Link to this contribution) What about Ian Parsley?

Owen Paterson | 508 c46 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful for that intervention, but if the hon. Gentleman can restrain himself, I will ret...

Owen Paterson | 508 c48 (Link to this contribution) It would be inappropriate for any of us to prejudge the inquiry, but I repeat—I think, for the third...

Peter Bottomley | 508 c48 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that although we will not know the report's conclusions until after the el...

William Cash | 508 c49 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a long, distinguished record of fighting hard for his cause. In the light of ...

Mark Durkan | 508 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) I rise to express my support for the orders before us today, consistent with what has already been a...

Alistair Carmichael | 508 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) I think that the hon. Gentleman goes too far when he says that that proposition is "absolute nonsens...

Mark Durkan | 508 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that proposals like this have been put to us before? My party was tol...

Alistair Carmichael | 508 c54-5 (Link to this contribution) May I crave your indulgence for a minute, Mr. Deputy Speaker? I wish to place on record, as the hon....

Mark Durkan | 508 c49-54 (Link to this contribution) I had better not start on the issue of home rule. In Ireland, history is current affairs, but I shal...

Alistair Carmichael | 508 c55 (Link to this contribution) We have a Conservative who supports the Unionist position rather than that of his own Front Benchers...

Lady Hermon | 508 c55 (Link to this contribution) Very.

Speaker | 508 c40 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the Secretary of State to move the first motion, I understand that it may be fo...

Speaker | 508 c40 (Link to this contribution) With this we shall discuss the following motions on Northern Ireland:"That the draft Northern Irelan...

Shaun Woodward | 508 c40 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the draft Northern Ireland Court Service (Abolition and Transfer of Functions) O...

Lady Hermon | 508 c42 (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry to interrupt the Secretary of State, but he will he just reassure the people at home a...

Shaun Woodward | 508 c40-2 (Link to this contribution) Today's business will enable the completion of devolution in Northern Ireland through the transfer o...

Lord Bannside | 508 c66-8 (Link to this contribution) This will be my last contribution to debates in this Chamber. My hon. Friend the Member for South St...

Paul Goggins | 508 c80-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for reminding me of the commitment I made in Committee, an...

Mark Durkan | 508 c60 (Link to this contribution) On the right hon. Gentleman's point about the report that has emerged from the working group on para...

Subjects

Administration of justice

Devolution

Finance

Northern Ireland

Police

Recruitment

Prosecutions

Northern Ireland government

Minority groups

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Policing Board

Religion

Northern Ireland Court Service

Sunset clauses

Legislation

Northern Ireland Court Service (Abolition and Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010
Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010
Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Amendment of Schedule 3) Order 2010

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