Northern Ireland Protocol Bill

My Lords, I move Amendment 36. As with previous amendments of a similar character, I am grateful ...

My Lords, I just wonder what Clause 18 is supposed to mean. Does it really mean that the Minister...

My Lords, I take this opportunity to ask my noble friend the Minister what discussions there have...

My Lords, I support Amendments 36 and 38 for the reasons that have been so eloquently set out alr...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, who highlights quite clear...

My Lords, when the purpose and the intended effect of a clause are unclear, it sometimes helps to...

To follow the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, I wonder whether one route might be for the Minister to g...

My Lords, I will speak in favour of Amendment 38, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of D...

My Lords, here we are again. I could not disagree with anything that has been said by anyone who ...

Wait for it.

Of course, everything is discerning and discriminating.

I would like the Minister to give u...

I have reached the same conclusion as the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, but via a slightly different ...

Before the noble Lord sits down, could he go one step further and ask my noble friend the Ministe...

He has done so.

My Lords, Amendment 38, among others, refers to the role of the Northern Ireland Assembly in appr...

Does the noble Lord accept that in Northern Ireland, when we have a democratic vacuum, the men of...

The noble Lord is correct. I agree that history tells us that a vacuum will be filled, and it wil...

My Lords, we have ranged once again, in a debate on one of the amendments, far and wide across th...

May I clarify something? My position is that there will be no progress with these talks until the...

My Lords, I maintained a Trappist silence throughout all the earlier debates on this Bill. I may ...

My Lords, this has been unusual in the debates that we have had so far in that far more has been ...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord but the Committee has heard repeated explanations of what th...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for sidestepping the question by saying that he does not need to ...

I heard the responses given to my noble friend so far, which he seems reluctant to accept. If he ...

I certainly do not say absolutely that Article 16 is not the way to proceed, but I have spoken to...

Why?

I will put the two in touch discreetly and thereby not betray confidences.

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord and I am grateful for his patience, but it really is not g...

I am saying that there may well be problems. Indeed, I asked the noble Lord the other day, down t...

My Lords, this has indeed been a very wide-ranging debate, but I will comment specifically on the...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to the debate on the amendments and the wi...

I am very grateful to the Minister. Can I press him for a moment on what I understand to be his e...

I would put it slightly differently. That is the section I referred to, but it is to provide clar...

Could I complete my point? I am very grateful to the Minister but I am puzzled by that explanatio...

My Lords, I suppose that, with any Bill, the challenge for the Government is often to provide add...

The Minister just indicated that discussions have taken place with the devolved Administrations. ...

I know that these discussions have certainly taken place at an official level. My understanding i...

I am sorry to interrupt but I am most grateful to my noble friend. The noble Lord, Lord Empey, ma...

As I said to the noble Lord, Lord Empey, I will certainly take back his comments and constructive...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response and to those who have taken part. I felt...

This was the subject of conversation, but the noble Lord will be aware that my right honourable f...

I am grateful to the Minister.

When the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, says that he is miles away f...

Would the noble Lord deal with the Article 50 point? If it is intrinsically temporary and transit...

That is the point. We have now legislated for it, and the element we have legislated for includes...

Moved by

Baroness Chapman of Darlington

39: Clause 19, page 10, line 17, leave out “t...

My Lords, I will allow a couple of seconds for people who have obviously got it off their chest d...

We support the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness. In supporting it, I want to make two ...

My Lords, I speak briefly to support Clause 19 not standing part of the Bill. Both the noble Baro...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this brief debate. I turn first to A...

Does Clause 19 not replace CRaG in respect of amendments to the protocol?

My Lords, I have already said that the Bill does nothing to affect the procedures applying under ...

If that is the case, would the Minister be sympathetic to an amendment on Report that puts that i...

My Lords, I think my priority is to complete Committee. Of course, I look forward to Report and t...

Before the Minister sits down, can he tell me whether there are any other circumstances in which ...

My Lords, I am sure the noble Lord will excuse me if I say that I do not have an instant response...

There is nothing in Clause 19 on consent. If there is an agreement, what is the Government’s posi...

My understanding is that we would certainly abide by our previous commitments in that respect. In...

I do not think we are very happy about this. The Minister says that he wants to address stability...

Moved by

Baroness Suttie

40: Clause 20, page 10, line 32, at end insert—

“but t...

My Lords, Amendment 40 in my name is co-signed by the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick...

My Lords, I will speak in favour of Amendment 40 in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady ...

My Lords, like the noble Baroness, I hope to be able to be present for the unveiling of the portr...

My Lords, I want to make a brief comment on Amendment 40, which is about approval by a resolution...

My Lords, I did not intend to come in at this stage—there are further amendments later that I am ...

My Lords, I want briefly to follow what the noble Lords, Lord Murphy and Lord Dodds, have said. T...

My Lords, I shall make a short comment on Amendment 40 proposed by the noble Baronesses, Lady Sut...

My Lords, I draw attention to the suggestion that Clause 20 should not stand part. During these C...

I very much support what the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, said, and add that it seems quite astonish...

I echo, from a non-legal point of view, the points made by the previous two speakers but, when lo...

My Lords, we had a brief debate on matters relating to the European court last week, which largel...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their participation in this debate. I will first addre...

I thank the Minister for giving way. Does he not agree that it would be much better to undertake ...

I stress, not for the first time from the Dispatch Box by myself or my noble friends on the Front...

The Advocate-General will have had the opportunity to reflect on a previous day in Committee, whe...

My Lords, interpretation of foreign law is a matter with which all three jurisdictions in the Uni...

If the role of the court of justice is, as the Minister puts it, a major obstacle because of demo...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for raising the point. The Government have always anticipated tha...

Can I just ask the noble and learned Lord as a lawyer what he was meaning when he gave an explana...

The noble and learned Baroness doubtless speaks rhetorically. I have the utmost respect for her i...

I am following up what the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, just said. The implicat...

With the utmost respect to my noble friend’s question, I do not feel I can go further from the Di...

Will the Minister give way?

Before I do, I say that, in response to an earlier point on which I undertook to write, I am noti...

That gives me an opportunity to thank the Minister for his efficiency. I look forward to reading ...

My Lords, the courts of the United Kingdom are fully competent to interpret and apply the law. Th...

In relation to the European Court of Justice and access for the people and businesses of Northern...

I think this perhaps overlaps with the point that the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, raised, b...

My Lords, I thank the Minister—not least because, as a fellow Scot, he pronounces my name correct...

Moved by

Baroness Doocey

43B: After Clause 20, insert the following new Clause—