Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill

I wish to speak to the amendments in my name and those of my party colleagues. I have a sense fro...

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I know that the Minister has considered amendment 13 and that he has published helpful guidance, ...

Yes, we published the guidance as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was making his open...

We are almost there. I am very grateful to the Minister for that clarification. Clearly, the guid...

Absolutely no problem. We will implement that as the hon. Gentleman suggests.

Dame Rosie, you can see that there is a willingness and desire to move things along. I am very gr...

I call the Chair of the Northern Ireland Committee.

5.45 pm

I rise to speak, Dame Rosie, while trying to maintain my composure, having been rejected by the M...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for outlining the amendments that I support. Does he think that t...

I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend. We have sought to be equal across the piece. On a ...

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I will not give way, because I want to be quick.

That is the principle underlying these ame...

I rise to speak to new clause 6 in my name and that of the shadow Secretary of State. I will not ...

I had not intended to speak, but I really cannot allow the comments made by the Chair of the Sele...

I said the Assembly had nothing to do with the negotiation of the protocol. That is reserved to M...

The implementation is the problem. The negotiation, hopefully, will deliver the solution. Therefo...

It is surprising that the Chair of the Select Committee has so little knowledge of something that...

Not only would that be unreasonable, but those Assembly Members were elected on a mandate not to ...

Does that mandate extend to the former Minister at the Department of Agriculture, Environment and...

Actually, that is not what the former DAERA Minister said. He recognised that the protocol is not...

Members will be pleased to know that I will be extremely brief. I will touch on a few points.

First, I thank Members opposite for being constructive in dealing with Northern Ireland issues wh...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We are in the last-chance saloon. We have all seen that polit...

I wholeheartedly agree with my right hon. Friend. Getting that deal will require us, as we have s...

I want to press the Minister on that point. I fully accept his point that the legislation being o...

I certainly recognise that we may not reach a deal, and that is why the Northern Ireland Protocol...

I had the great privilege a little while ago of being the Advocate General for Northern Ireland, ...

The Secretary of State is well aware of the issue that my right hon. and learned Friend raises. I...