Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill

My Lords, thank you for bringing this matter before the Committee. I will make some general point...

My Lords, we have heard the suggestion of the noble Lord, Lord Adonis, that we have a mediator, b...

My Lords, the Committee is listening with great attention to the noble Lord. Would he care to ela...

I am not personally advocating either, but a mediator is somebody who is negotiating between the ...

My Lords, I listened with great attention to the noble Lord, but I listened with equal attention ...

I take the noble Lord’s point, which is pertinent. However, do not forget that if we keep to this...

I will intervene for a few seconds. The issue is that because the “talks” and “negotiations” have...

My Lords, I invited the Minister to set out the Government’s thinking, which he did, clearly, and...

Moved by

Lord Hain

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My Lords, Amendment 3 is in my name and that of the noble Lords, Lord Bruce and Lord Cormack, and...

My Lords, I will be very brief. I was delighted to add my name to Amendment 3, which is also in t...

My Lords, I too support this amendment, which I have signed, and which was powerfully moved by th...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Hain, on this issue. We need the issues of the past to b...

My Lords, I add my support to that which the noble Lord, Lord Hain, has received already. In my o...

My Lords, I briefly add my support for the amendment moved so passionately by the noble Lord, Lor...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Hain and the noble Lords, Lord Cormack and Lord Bruce, i...

I am struck, as I gaze around the Chamber, by how many people are wearing poppies. And I am struc...

Has the Victims Commissioner indicated a date by which she might report?

The Victims Commissioner has not indicated such a date, but I am led to believe that we should be...

Of course my noble friend cannot bind her, but could she not be asked to do it within six months ...

I am in a slightly invidious position because I cannot give a date—but I know that six months wou...

My Lords, I am grateful for the support from the noble Lords, Lord Cormack and Lord Bruce, from t...

Moved by

Lord Bruce of Bennachie

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My Lords, I think this again indicates the dilemma that we are having, although the framework is ...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Bruce. It would be absolutely ridiculou...

My Lords, my Amendment 6 is in this group. The argument is the same. This is not the first discus...

The people affected by the historical institutional abuse inquiry were also affected by the Troub...

My Lords, I, too, have some sympathy with the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Bruce. As t...

My Lords, it is not often that we find unanimity in such a fashion, so let us grab it with both h...

I am grateful to the Minister for his characteristically sympathetic response, and obviously for ...

Moved by

Lord Bew

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My Lords, before I speak to the amendment I should like to say that the noble Lord, Lord Hain, is...

My Lords, I have Amendment 13 in this group. I am not quite sure that it sits precisely with Amen...

My Lords, it has been a very interesting short debate. I think that it has to be dealt with in th...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Bew, for his thoughtful Amendment 5, and for givi...

I am happy to withdraw my amendment.

Moved by

Lord Empey

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My Lords, I have raised issues pertaining to health in Northern Ireland before. I think I quoted ...

My Lords, these two amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Empey, seek to direct the Nort...

Before the Minister sits down, I want to say that he is not quite clear as to the Government’s ex...

It may appear that, because the noble Lord, Lord Empey, is leading this on his own, he may not ha...

I hope the noble Viscount does not think I said that. First, I am left in no doubt about the pass...

I do not want to hold the Committee up, but I am having some difficulty. The aim of the legislati...

I hope I have made the point that health is very much a priority. I cannot say anything more. I h...

My attention is not quite as close as it was earlier today and I did not hear my noble friend’s r...

I am not sure I gave it, but in the interests of time, I will look over what I said and write to ...

My Lords, we have all sympathy with what the noble Lord, Lord Empey, is trying to achieve; when i...

My Lords, I have listened carefully to what colleagues from Northern Ireland said. I am no partic...

My Lords, I know the noble Lord, Lord Hay, mentioned education—we could all mention that—but ther...

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

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