Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill

Another year, and another Bill to postpone the Northern Ireland Assembly elections. It is worth n...

When I was at home over Christmas, I took my uncle to the specialist cancer centre at Belfast Cit...

I agree with my hon. Friend that this is the moment to get the institutions back up and running. ...

The right hon. Gentleman is making an important point. Many public sector pay awards have been ma...

The right hon. Gentleman links the pay question to his stance on the DUP’s difference of view on ...

Back home in the papers, with TV correspondents and in media statements, those in the unions say ...

I have indeed heard the unions making precisely that point. I have set out to the House that I un...

The right hon. Gentleman asks in his questions to the Secretary of State about plan Bs and altern...

I agree 100% with the right hon. Gentleman. He anticipates a point that I am just about to make i...

I am very much enjoying the tone and the thrust of the right hon. Gentleman’s speech. Of course, ...

I am grateful for that intervention. I believe strongly in Northern Ireland’s place as part of th...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will give way, and then I will finish.

The right hon. Gentleman is raising a very important point. The whole point of the agreement and ...

The right hon. Gentleman asks a very pertinent question, but that is a consequence of a course of...

I want to make a few remarks in support of my right hon. Friend the Minister who introduced this ...

I will begin, as is sadly becoming customary, by saying how much it is a matter of regret that we...

I call the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee.

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It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Gordon (Richard Thomson). I listened very carefull...

The right hon. and learned Member makes reference to Northern Ireland being set adrift from the r...

Obviously, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will answer on any engagement that the UK ...

There has been much use of the phrase “the world as it is” in the debate, which I think is helpfu...

We are in the process of preparing a report on the state of public services in Northern Ireland. ...

Because Northern Ireland sits under EU rules and laws, the carbon tax offset for energy costs is ...

The hon. Gentleman is right to point out some of the facts about the situation we find ourselves ...

Does my right hon. and learned Friend have a message to the Unionist community in Northern Irelan...

The message I would give is simply that we still need a functioning Executive to work out and bri...

I thank the right hon. and learned Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buckland) for his comment...

This will probably not do the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson) many ...

The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson) and I have not agreed on much r...

Order. Before I proceed, let me remind hon. Members that the Second Reading debate must end at 3....

Without encroaching on the advice that you have just given, Mr Deputy Speaker, am I right to assu...

As things stand, yes, but one hon. Member left the Chamber and came back in, and another who indi...

I am grateful, Mr Deputy Speaker, and I certainly do not take those comments personally, because ...

I am not too sure why we have the Bill in this form today, with the suggestion that we could have...

I call Jim Shannon. I would be grateful if he tried to confine his remarks to five minutes.