Northern Ireland Executive Formation

My Lords, I too thank the Minister for repeating yesterday’s Statement and commend him and the Se...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Murphy of Torfaen, and the noble Barone...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. It is good that we will have bodies l...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Dodds of Duncairn, for his words, and I welcome his positiv...

My Lords, I welcome the Statement. It has been a frustrating two years, but it would be churlish ...

I am very grateful to the former Secretary of State for his comments and commend him for the work...

My Lords, I am mindful that we are almost half way through the Back-Bench speaking time, so if no...

My Lords, in a Parliamentary Written Answer on 6 December 2023, the noble Baroness, Lady Penn, ad...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I appreciate that he has a particular interest in this area and ...

My Lords, the return of the Assembly is of course wholly welcome, but the agreement reached yeste...

I welcome the fact that my noble friend supports the restoration of the institution; where I part...

My Lords, I am very glad to add to the congratulations to the Minister, who has been central to t...

I thank the noble Lord, who is my good friend, for his kind words. I pay tribute to him for the m...

My Lords, I warmly congratulate my noble friend; I have known him for a long time, since our work...

My noble friend will be aware that the statutory instrument, which we will have the opportunity t...

My Lords, it is a fact that in any agreement the devil will be in the detail; therefore, can we h...

The Government are absolutely confident that this deal will guarantee the smooth flow of goods th...

I rise to reflect the views of the Green Party in Northern Ireland and join everyone here in welc...

Those will of course all be matters for the new Executive to take forward, not for His Majesty’s ...

My Lords, I join my noble friend the Minister in welcoming this Command Paper, Safeguarding the U...

I pay tribute to my noble friend for the work he has done on the Northern Ireland protocol sub-co...