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Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 25 July 2006, in the House of Commons.
Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. Programme motion (No 3) on consideration of Lords amendments agreed to on question (formal). Lords amendments considered. Lords amendment 3 disagreed to. Lords amendment 1 disagreed to on division (260 to 16). Lords amendment 2 disagreed to. Lords amendments 4-6 agreed to. Committee appointed to draw up reasons to be assigned to the Lords for disagreeing to their amendments 3,1 and 2. Reasons reported and agreed to. Message to the Lords to communicate reasons, Bill and amendments.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

449 c765-84 

Session

2005-06

Department

Northern Ireland Office

Legislative stage

Lords amendments

Procedure

Programme motions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill . Lords amendments (Vote)
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

David Simpson | 449 c770 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is laughing.
Lembit Opik | 449 c768-70 (Link to this contribution) The Minister and the House know how strongly I have felt about this matter over the past two years. ...

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David Lidington | 449 c768 (Link to this contribution) I would have preferred the concession to have been introduced much earlier, but I think that when it...
Sammy Wilson | 449 c768 (Link to this contribution) Given that it is a concession to democracy and not to a particular party, and given that between now...
David Lidington | 449 c768 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I described it earlier as a concession by the Government, but I would also describe it as a...
David Lidington | 449 c767-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for his introductory remarks, and in particular for the significant co...
Gregory Campbell | 449 c768 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that since the announcement that this move would be made, some people...
Lord Bannside | 449 c767 (Link to this contribution) Of course, we are sorry that the provision is not going through now, as Members on both sides of the...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c767 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman’s support is always welcome, and I am grateful for the support that he has ...
Lembit Opik | 449 c766 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for being so clear that the Government have finally listened to ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c766 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in the said amendment. In all parts of the ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c766-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his contributions on these issues. Obviously, the Government’s first ...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c781-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for hon. Members’ contributions. I am sorry that we have such a full House to hear the...
Peter Robinson | 449 c781 (Link to this contribution) It shows how the hon. Gentleman’s mind works when he makes an intervention on an irrelevant issue th...
Alasdair McDonnell | 449 c781 (Link to this contribution) I did not go to Clontibret. I did not have my fine paid for me in punts. My name is not Peter Punt.
Peter Robinson | 449 c781 (Link to this contribution) I will give the hon. Gentleman another go.
Peter Robinson | 449 c780-1 (Link to this contribution) I see that the Minister is starting to tidy his papers—he is already thinking of his holidays. Indee...
Alasdair McDonnell | 449 c779-80 (Link to this contribution) I rise to oppose the Lords amendments, which would narrow the list of political donors, restrict fun...
Sammy Wilson | 449 c780 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is well aware from what was said in the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee of the...
Lembit Opik | 449 c778-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased in two ways with that response. First, the Minister suggests that this could be the fir...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c778 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, this matter will be subject to an order, which will be debated in this House and pub...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c779 (Link to this contribution) I should confirm to the hon. Gentleman that the likely avenue is affirmative resolution in the House...
Lembit Opik | 449 c777-8 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will see how strongly Liberal Democrats feel about this matter by the increasing number...
Lembit Opik | 449 c778 (Link to this contribution) The Minister’s response is helpful. Perhaps he could put on the record, by way of a further interven...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c778 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can help the hon. Gentleman. For example, someone who is an Irish citizen would have to pr...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c776-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, but it is not for me to determine the what, who...
Laurence Robertson | 449 c777 (Link to this contribution) I echo the Minister’s words of congratulations to the retiring adviser. I do not wish to speak for l...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c776 (Link to this contribution) I genuinely say to the hon. Gentleman that I cannot estimate who or what or when or where any of the...
John Bercow | 449 c776 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Minister for giving way. Can I simply put it to him that, in this con...
Speaker | 449 c775 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady is experienced enough to know that she should not say ““you””, because that mea...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 449 c776 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is trying to put a gloss on what is clearly a discriminatory provision, against Unionis...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c775-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. As somebody once said, ““They all look alike after a while.”” The im...
Speaker | 449 c775 (Link to this contribution) With this we may discuss Lords amendment No. 2. I call Mr. Peter Hain—or, rather, David Hanson.
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c775 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That this House disagrees with the Lords in the said amendment.
Peter Robinson | 449 c773-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and in fact the Government already accept the principle that they should do so in this very Bil...
Laurence Robertson | 449 c774 (Link to this contribution) With regard to amending Orders in Council, does the hon. Gentleman recall that a miscellaneous provi...
Peter Robinson | 449 c774 (Link to this contribution) Over the 27 or 28 years that I have been a Member, I have seen the House pass some legislation in an...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c774 (Link to this contribution) I thank hon. Members on both sides of the House for welcoming the proposals that the Government anno...
Baroness Hoey | 449 c774 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate what the Minister says about the procedure not being satisfactory. Will he then explain...
Baroness Hoey | 449 c770-1 (Link to this contribution) I would have supported the Lords amendments today, but given that the Minister has come forward with...
Lembit Opik | 449 c773 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the essential element that we are looking for is amendability?
Peter Robinson | 449 c772-3 (Link to this contribution) It is always a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey)—and never more so t...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 449 c773 (Link to this contribution) Given the consensus that appears to have broken out on both sides of the House about the need to mov...
Peter Robinson | 449 c773 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely—that is the very point that I am making. The House must be capable of amending an Order i...
Lembit Opik | 449 c770 (Link to this contribution) He is laughing with surprise and relief that on this one occasion we trust him—[Interruption.] I sen...
Lembit Opik | 449 c779 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that intervention and I understand why he wants to make that point...
Lord Hanson of Flint | 449 c775 (Link to this contribution) The Government have taken this decision on policy issues relating to this matter, and a key point fo...
Alasdair McDonnell | 449 c780 (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, Sinn Fein will manage to launder money whatever we do in this House. Indeed, it is ai...

Subjects

Accountability
Contributions
Devolution
Eligibility
Donors
Exemptions
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Assembly
Political parties
Northern Ireland government
Republic of Ireland
Statutory instruments

Legislation

Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005-06

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