Justice and Security (Northern Ireland) Bill

If we set aside our obvious differences about the way in which those powers for the Army were exercised in the past, does he accept that the Government made a commitment to repeal those powers? It is a fact that previous legislation purported to repeal those powers, and that the Bill effectively restores and recycles some of them? Perhaps it was the hon. Gentleman’s party that persuaded the Government to do so, but it is a reversal of their position.