Parliamentary search - Loans to Ireland Bill

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

723 c1020-9, c1033-55

Session

2010-12

Department

Treasury

Legislative stage

Third reading and Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Loans to Ireland Bill. Brought from the Commons 15 December. Explanatory Notes also published HL Bill 36-EN.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Liddle | 723 c1023-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first I apologise most sincerely to the Minister for not being in the House for the start ...

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1020 (Link to this contribution) That the Bill be read a second time.

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Lord Newby | 723 c1029 (Link to this contribution) I may be mistaken—I do not know the noble Lord desperately well—but I think that, in a former incarn...

Lord McAvoy | 723 c1029 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that the noble Lord will forgive me, but I will be extremely brief. In the interest...

Lord McAvoy | 723 c1029 (Link to this contribution) I did not have to send notes. I just looked encouraging.

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1020-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is the Government’s intention to ask for authority to make a bilateral loan to Ireland ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1025 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, during the noble Lord’s remarks I think that I heard him say that British prospects for gr...

Lord Liddle | 723 c1025 (Link to this contribution) I touched on that subject, because I said that Germany was taking far better advantage of global gro...

Lord Newby | 723 c1026-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his very clear introduction to the debate. I was slightly concerned, howeve...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1028 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course I admit that our trade with the eurozone is important, but is the noble Lord awa...

Lord Newby | 723 c1028-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the fact that such trade may be increasing more quickly is not surprising for two reasons....

Lord Liddle | 723 c1052 (Link to this contribution) What plan have the British Government and the Prime Minister put forward for the eurozone? Why does ...

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1050-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was talking about where Members of the House stood on the Bill, which is where I ought t...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1050 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is very generous, but is he aware that the majority of the British people now wish to l...

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1050 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been an interesting debate and I am grateful for the contributions. The noble Lord,...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1053 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the Minister will come to some of my questions later, but this might be a conv...

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1053 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, my Lords, the money advanced to Ireland needs to be funded, but it is precisely because we h...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 723 c1053 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps may I press the Minister a little more on what he said about this Irish loan not adding to t...

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1052-3 (Link to this contribution) These are all factors that mean that we need, with the EU 27, to make sure that the structural refor...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 723 c1049-50 (Link to this contribution) Well, who has bailed out Europe? We are talking about an economy in Europe that is receiving some as...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1049 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord makes an interesting point. However, can he tell us who bailed out the Unit...

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1055 (Link to this contribution) No and no. Bill read a second time. Committee negatived. Standing Order 46 having been dispensed wi...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1055 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord sits down, there was one other important question that I asked him and I have ...

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1053-4 (Link to this contribution) The position is as I have explained it. There is no question of change of competencies in this case ...

Lord Sassoon | 723 c1054-5 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is possibly putting a spin on Madame Lagarde’s words that she would not entirely acce...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1054 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord is being a little unfair to the previous Government. Surely, the decision w...

Lord Lamont of Lerwick | 723 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to remind the noble Lord, but I remember him making speeches telling us that if only we w...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 723 c1040 (Link to this contribution) Undoubtedly had we been in the euro—and I totally agree with the noble Lord that I was, and remain, ...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 723 c1039-40 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the noble Lord’s indictment of the financial markets and a lot of lenders. I s...

Lord Lamont of Lerwick | 723 c1039 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with much of what the noble Lord has said, but I think he is slightly overstating ...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 723 c1036-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by asking the Minister a question. I would have intervened on him earlier, but sin...

Lord Cope of Berkeley | 723 c1034-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I should perhaps confirm that I am indeed the British co-chairman of the British-Ir...

Lord Bew | 723 c1033-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for the skilful way in which he introduced the Bill. I approach this ...

Lord Newby | 723 c1029 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord for making that point. He will be aware that I h...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1029 (Link to this contribution) Even in your Lordships' House, I believe that I am right in saying that the Companion suggests that ...

Lord Newby | 723 c1029 (Link to this contribution) Well, as I am sure the noble Lord is learning, we do things differently in your Lordships' House. I ...

Lord Davies of Oldham | 723 c1047-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I suppose that, as it is almost the last day before the Christmas Recess, it is right that...

Lord Tugendhat | 723 c1043-4 (Link to this contribution) Again I am grateful for the kind words of the noble Lord, but I do not think that the world works th...

Lord Liddle | 723 c1043 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have a great deal of respect for what I have described as the pro-European pragmatism of...

Lord McFall of Alcluith | 723 c1046-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I commend the Government for this loan to Ireland initiative and I commend in particular t...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1044-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by confirming the clear illegality of bailing out the eurozone, which includes the...

Lord Tugendhat | 723 c1040-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like other noble Lords who have spoken, I applaud the Government’s decision to offer Irela...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 723 c1040 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to give, I hope, a very unambiguous answer to that as well. I do not believe that th...

Lord Tugendhat | 723 c1042-3 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree with the noble Lord. He draws too clear a distinction between membership and non-...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 723 c1042 (Link to this contribution) It is not surprising that as a man of the world and a former European commissioner, the noble Lord i...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 723 c1040 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to press the noble Lord, but is he really saying that the predicaments in which...

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Bilateral aid

Interest rates

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Loans

Republic of Ireland

EU aid

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Loans to Ireland Bill 2010-12

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