Northern Ireland Budget (Anticipation and Adjustments) Bill

The hon. Lady and I have discussed this matter in the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and in t...

Assuming an Executive is reconstituted at some stage during the year—perhaps, say, in six months’...

My hon. and gallant Friend is correct that members of the Executive would have the power to chang...

I am extremely grateful to the Secretary of State for allowing me to move on to a completely diff...

I had the privilege of meeting Mitchell Reiss when I was in the United States last week, and I th...

Funding that is apparently destined for the implementation of the recommendations of the Hart rep...

I thank my hon. Friend the Chair of the Select Committee for that point. As I said earlier, the f...

The Secretary of State will know my interest in making sure that it is the perpetrator who pays a...

The hon. Gentleman’s comments indicate to the House that there is perhaps not universal support f...

The Secretary of State confirmed the legal position of the Bill and what it purports to do and wi...

Then right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The statement sets out the departmental allocation...

We all, of course, want to see the Executive restored, but, in the absence of that in the medium ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contribution. I agree that we all want to see devolution resto...

My right hon. Friend is being very generous in giving way. I am probably being thick, but can she...

I suspect that that is a deeply technical point. It would probably be helpful to the members of t...

This is, as the Secretary of State has said, a technical step today. For instant clarity, let me ...

May I thank the shadow Secretary of State for his words? I wish to put it on the record that I ad...

I welcome those words. I was sure that the Secretary of State would reflect on those events.

Does the shadow Secretary of State agree that the lists in that document cover the scope of each ...

That is precisely right; that is the point that I was coming on to. I was going to say that this ...

Does the hon. Gentleman think that his taxpaying constituents in Pontypridd, mine in North Antrim...

It will be for the Government and, I hope, for the Executive to make a determination about the ba...

To be clear, I also heard the evidence given by David Sterling and I have spoken to him about thi...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for that clarification, but she has effectively doubled d...

I just want to provide some clarity. The report from Judge Hart, who headed up the inquiry, actua...

The hon. Lady is right. I think that the report came a matter of days after the Executive collaps...

It is probably worth confirming what I have said previously about dealing with the legacy of the ...

I am grateful to the Secretary of State for that confirmation. I am sure that people in Northern ...

Many soldiers have actually received compensation and pensions. Is the hon. Gentleman including t...

No, there are 500 civilian victims. As the hon. Gentleman says, there are separate provisions reg...

I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s genuine concern about this issue. Is he equally concerned about...

Of course, that is another very important issue. It is not necessarily related to the substance o...

The shadow Secretary of State will know that this is not just a question of financial provision, ...

That will depend on the nature and the terms of the Bill, and on how all individuals are treated ...

The Select Committee has met representatives of WAVE and looked at their proposals. Has the hon. ...

I know from the hon. Gentleman’s time on the Select Committee that he is very familiar with this ...

When we had the debate here on the Northern Ireland covenant, the hon. Gentleman said in response...

No, I have not.

I know that the Secretary of State agrees that this should be the last year...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on bringing forward this measure. It i...

The hon. Gentleman is right in respect of some of the recommendations that may come out of that r...

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. However, the call for evidence goes much further ...

The hon. Gentleman is 100% correct in what he just said. He is right to point out that of course ...

The right hon. Gentleman is, as ever, absolutely correct.

I will finish my remarks on the H...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I was just about to sit down, but I will of course give way.

I commend my hon. Friend for his work and that of his Committee. Does he acknowledge that one of ...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right but I am sure that, if he re-reads Hansard from last wee...

I echo the comments made by the Secretary of State and the shadow Secretary of State about the re...

May I start with an observation? It is interesting that when we talk in this place about Northern...

May I assure the hon. Lady that the Belfast city region deal is going forward? It is being led by...

Mid and East Antrim.

And, of course, Mid and East Antrim. The absence of a devolved Government is therefore in no way ...

I am extremely pleased to hear that, because the city deal is a huge opportunity for Belfast and,...

I appreciate the hon. Lady’s point, and of course I agree with it, but we should not be totally p...

The hon. Gentleman makes a valid point, although I have heard him say himself that we want some c...

Let me start by making it clear that this is a technical debate, although the misconceptions that...

Is my right hon. Friend saying that the Secretary of State should make those ministerial decision...

I am just picking at random from one Department, and I could do the same with every other Departm...

There are not two options, but three. The third option, and the one that we all want to see, is f...

That is actually where I was getting to. Unfortunately, the decisions that we have had to date—a ...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for allowing me to intervene again. He has painted a ve...

That will be entirely a matter for the Secretary of State, but as has been pointed out regularly ...

As always, it is a pleasure to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wils...

Does my right hon. Friend accept that had that Member, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir, still been Finance Mi...

My right hon. Friend makes an interesting point. A very good illustration that proves his point c...

Does not part of the problem lie with the wider community in Northern Ireland? They are disillusi...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. When I have constituency surgeries and meet people and, like ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way, and I also thank my right hon. Friend the Member for...

The hon. Gentleman has made a very sensible, reasonable, pragmatic point, and, as always, he has ...

I always listen very carefully to what the right hon. Gentleman has to say, and he has made it cl...

I could repeat everything that my right hon. Friend the Member for East Antrim said in response t...

The right hon. Gentleman is being exceedingly generous in giving way again. I just want to ask hi...

The hon. Lady is right to refer to the efforts made by the previous leader in Northern Ireland of...

My right hon. Friend refers to one of the darkest days for the British Army during the troubles, ...

Yes, and I am sure that even 30 years ago the good people of Lisburn would have extended that sam...

I think it might be appropriate to point out, given that my right hon. Friend feels as we all do ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw our attention to that particularly brutal slaying. It ...

It is a pleasure to follow the excellent speeches that we have heard throughout the House today, ...

My hon. Friend has outlined the position very well, but the bottom line is this. There is one par...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend, and I will discuss that in more detail later.

I sha...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast South (Emma Little Pengelly). Th...

On my hon. Friend’s point about the Irish language, the DUP has made it very clear that we do not...

I agree 100% with my right hon. Friend. I do not necessarily hold to speaking Irish, but I am not...

It is always a pleasure to speak at any stage in any debate in this House. I look forward to the ...

Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a very substantial contrast between Sinn Féin’s very narr...

I thank my hon. Friend; he is absolutely correct. Yes, we were committed to bringing advantages f...

My hon. Friend thinks I am intervening to put forward an alternative proposal for the route of th...

I thank my hon. Friend for that solution and for his question to the Minister. I am sure that Min...

I understand that the Minister of State will be replying to many of the points made in this debat...

When my hon. Friend speaks of smelling the coffee and the importance to our economy of driving th...

It is good that we, as the country that I think drinks the most tea per head of population, are n...

Does my hon. Friend agree that we have a number of excellent ambassadors for golf in Northern Ire...

We always used to mention the triumvirate of Rory, Darren and Graeme, but now there are so many g...

I am sure the hon. Gentleman is coming to the line in his speech about how Rory McIlroy trained i...

We are in danger of getting stuck in the bunker, and that is not where I want to be. Come on, Mr ...

I will put the sand wedge away and move to another discipline, if you don’t mind, Mr Deputy Speak...

We have had an extraordinarily interesting afternoon. It started with almost a political first—al...

The hon. Gentleman talks about the North West 200 and the Portrush, Coleraine and Portstewart tri...

I am more familiar with Bob Stewart than Portstewart, but there may well be a distillery along th...

May I say what a pleasure it is to be in this debate this afternoon, Mr Deputy Speaker? I thank r...

The Minister will undoubtedly be aware that last week—I am sure it was last week—the head of the ...

I hope that the hon. Lady will appreciate that this is an ongoing inquiry and that it would not b...

With the greatest of respect to the Minister, for whom I have enormous regard, this has nothing t...

I hope that the hon. Lady will appreciate that there are no Ministers in the Northern Ireland Ass...

I wholeheartedly agree that, yes, in the best case in the world that is a matter for the Northern...

I take on board what the hon. Gentleman has said, but he will appreciate that, as I pointed out a...

The Minister is right to refer to paragraph (3) rather than paragraph (4); I misdirected him earl...

The hon. Gentleman is a distinguished lawyer and will therefore appreciate that, given the contex...