Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair today, Dame Eleanor, as we enter the third day of...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. I have just one point to add. Does he agree that th...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend. Indeed the Bill not only takes powers away from this plac...

Further to that point, I do not understand why the official Opposition don’t get it. There is a d...

I always listen with great respect to the right hon. Gentleman. He talks about a democratic defic...

We hear a lot about the egregious use of powers and regulations being imposed, but we hear very l...

Indeed. The point I have made is that the powers the Government are taking remove responsibilitie...

Allow me, Dame Eleanor, for I think the penultimate time, to thank hon. Members who have spoken i...

Will the Minister give way?

If the hon. Member would not mind, I will give way to him when I come on to his amendment specifi...

Yes, I am grateful to the Minister, and I assure him this is only a probing amendment and I will ...

I do not accept that characterisation. This is very important to the whole community in Northern ...

Does the Minister accept that in fact this Bill makes all the provision necessary for firms in No...

The right hon. Gentleman is certainly right about the dual regulatory regime, as the Committee di...

Will the Minister please clarify? I am struggling to understand. He repeatedly refers to the need...

As I think the hon. Lady knows, this cannot be about majoritarianism, and by the way I note a pol...

And there is not cross-community consensus!

The hon. Lady is shouting from a sedentary position, but I think I have made the position clear. ...

Order. The hon. Member for Belfast South (Claire Hanna) knows she cannot shout like that while sh...

Thank you, Dame Eleanor.

I simply reiterate to the hon. Lady and the whole Committee that o...

Does the Minister share my bafflement at the intervention that he has just had to respond to? On ...

The right hon. Gentleman makes his point with his usual eloquence, and the citation he makes from...

Can the Minister point out the line, paragraph and page of the Good Friday agreement that he is q...

The hon. Gentleman is being mischievous in the best possible sense of that word; he is very famil...

I am happy to follow the Minister. Reference has been made to the oversight of the European Court...

Does my right hon. Friend accept that in no other trade agreement would one side be able to adjud...

Indeed, and that speaks to the issue that I raised about the democratic deficit. The Government a...

Despite what the right hon. Member has been saying, I am very grateful to him for giving way. I k...

I am not going to delve back into the history of Northern Ireland and leave the Committee bemused...

What about the nationalists?

Yes, nationalist concerns need to be heard. I believe that the proposals that the Government have...

Can my right hon. Friend understand why nationalists will not accept this Bill? I cannot, because...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I believe that if we examine the proposals that the Gov...

Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why, in the case of all the Bills that preceded Britain’s ex...

I am a democrat, and I accepted the outcome of the referendum. The British people had voted for B...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson). I o...

I genuinely share the right hon. Lady’s concern that all the elected Unionist Members oppose the ...

What I want to emphasise is that this Bill, once it is adopted, will deliver a system that will d...

As everyone here knows, I represent my constituency of Strangford, but I have had representations...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The reason I am supporting this Bill is that I believe it is in ...

Brexit undoubtably casts a heavy shadow over this debate. The point raised by the right hon. Memb...

Although the right hon. Gentleman makes a valid point about EU law being retained for the rest of...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a fair point, and I understand it entirely. I am talking about the...

It is a pleasure, as always, to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Evans, as we discuss the Bill t...

This afternoon’s amendments focus on the disapplication of the protocol and the extravagant power...

There is, though, a clear distinction between the principle of consent, which relates to the ulti...

I am glad the hon. Member brought up that point, because I am sure that all the Members in the Ch...

I am afraid that I must disagree with the hon. Lady. Parallel consent does not apply on only one ...

This is the problem we had in the stop-start 25 years of devolution: an obsession with and an add...

This debate is not about history, but at the time I was actually a member of the Ulster Unionist ...

I desperately hope with every fibre of my being that the position the right hon. Gentleman sets o...

It is a pleasure to speak in the debate. I want to make a few points about the European Court of ...

The hon. Gentleman is making an interesting and important speech. In clause 20(4), the Government...

Absolutely. I am grateful to the right hon. Member for reinforcing that point; there is a kernel ...

I am now going to call Jim Shannon as the last contributor on this group, and then we will have t...

I am very pleased to be called to speak, Mr Evans. The Minister referred to the democratic defici...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. It is perhaps useful to distinguish between w...

For the record again, I repeat, and do so with authority: Lakeland Dairies has told me that whate...

I’ve milked the cow!

Well, have you brought your wellies? He wants to go and buy himself a pair of wellies. Before he ...

On a point of order, Mr Evans. Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on the use of the term “pan-nation...

Clearly, Mr Speaker asked people today to use temperate language, with reference to “Erskine May”...

This has been a very wide-ranging and thoughtful debate, albeit with passion at various points. T...

I thank hon. Members, who have all spoken passionately. I will try very briefly to address some o...

I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Clauses...

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Clause 21 stand part.

Amend...

Let me, for the last time, thank hon. Members who have spoken in the previous Committee stage deb...

Further to that point, will the Minister also assure us that, consistent with clause 1, regulatio...

Yes, indeed.

Subsection (6) provides that a Minister can facilitate other powers under this...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dame Rosie, for the second part of this debate. I will ...

Has the hon. Gentleman or his party ever once lobbied the EU in public or in private to shift its...

I do not agree with the last part of what the right hon. Gentleman said, but actually I sat aroun...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dame Rosie. I am grateful to the Minister for the const...

I will speak to my amendment 3, and some others. The Bill is notionally about the good of Norther...

Northern Ireland.

Well, obviously, that is about to happen in Northern Ireland, if the Bill goes through its stages...

I have listened to the hon. Member outline to the Committee that the majority of people in the No...

There is a lot in that intervention. I hope that I can address the hon. Member’s points in order....

I must inform the House that Mr Speaker has not selected the reasoned amendment in the name of Ia...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

While the debates in Committee hav...

I call the shadow Minister, Stephen Doughty.

6.21 pm

As if we needed any more evidence that this zombie Government are even now doing everything they ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way. The hon. Gentleman has not been here throughout the course of the debates on...

It is a great pity that the hon. Member for Cardiff South and Penarth (Stephen Doughty) says I ha...

I rise to confirm on Third Reading that the SNP will also oppose this Bill, and to take the oppor...

I will be brief. I thank the Minister and his team for the work they have done on this Bill, and ...

I promise to be brief, because we have heard a lot over the last number of days and we have heard...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not.

Will the hon. Gentleman be good enough to give way?

I will not. Sit down!

This Bill is a sop to the DUP and a campaigning tool for the Foreign ...

There is a problem with the operation of the Northern Ireland protocol and it needs to be sorted ...

You will be glad to know, Madam Deputy Speaker, that I will also keep my remarks very brief.

The hon. Lady makes an important point about the leadership of the Conservative party. As one of ...

I agree wholeheartedly with the hon. Member. We welcome those comments, but we hope and trust tha...

A number of assertions have been made during the course of this debate about the breaking of the ...

I thank the hon. Member for that wonderful point. I genuinely thank every hon. Member who has put...