Northern Ireland Budget Bill

The Secretary of State references the fact that there is no budget because there is no Executive ...

I welcome the insight and experience that the hon. Lady brings to this House from her time in the...

The Secretary of State speaks of frustrations. The difficulty is that this is not just a matter o...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for highlighting the real life impacts of historical in...

I echo the words of the right hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson), because my...

The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful and important point about the impact on victims, but nothing ...

I hesitate to intervene, as I am about to make a speech, but I seek further clarity on this point...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, but it presupposes that there is broad agreement on ...

There is.

I am talking about all the recommendations contained in it. My understanding is that we do not ha...

It is clear that there is cross-party support for the Hart report recommendations—certainly for t...

I am sure David Sterling will hear keenly what is being said across the House today on the points...

I am going to make some progress if I may. I have been generous in taking interventions, as I hop...

I just seek to understand the figures that the Secretary of State has given out, and this relates...

I say to the hon. Gentleman that what we are actually dealing with here is the full utilisation o...

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I am happy to try again with the hon. Gentleman.

I think there is probably only one person in the House who properly understood all of that, and I...

As I indicated to the hon. Gentleman, we are effectively talking about a sum of £10.6 billion for...

May I take this opportunity to chide my right hon. Friend ever so gently? Had right hon. and hon....

I understand the point that the Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee makes. Equally, t...

Does the Secretary of State accept that, even taking into account the information in those schedu...

The details were published in the main estimates document that has been published as a Command Pa...

The Secretary of State and I had a discussion on this point earlier, but can he confirm that the ...

The hon. Gentleman and I did have a conversation outside the House before we entered the Chamber,...

I accept the Secretary of State’s explanation. Of course this is not the ideal way to deal with t...

Although there is not a functioning Executive—in other words, we do not have the First Minister a...

The Secretary of State will know that, for family reasons, we have had a very difficult weekend. ...

If the hon. Lady will bear with me, I intend to say something about that issue later in my commen...

I am very grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way and for announcing today the first in...

As the right hon. Gentleman will know, we recognise the particular case that has been made by Nor...

The Secretary of State has previously indicated—quite rightly—that this matter should be addresse...

This point has been raised on the Floor of the House before. The right hon. Gentleman makes a pow...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will give way later, but I am just going to finish my comments.

Together with the Irish G...

I join the Secretary of State in condemning the actions of the people who left a viable pipe bomb...

The hon. Gentleman has signalled his support for the Bill. Will he also signal to the House his s...

With the greatest respect to the hon. Lady, that is a slightly separate issue from those we are d...

Does the hon. Gentleman accept that it is easy to blame the Secretary of State or the civil serva...

I have no idea what the hon. Gentleman is referring to in terms of a connection between the Labou...

The hon. Gentleman is making the point that commenced this debate: from tonight, there is effecti...

I accept the point the hon. Gentleman makes—that the NICS is currently effectively unaccountable ...

Can we be clear about this? The alternative to a functioning Executive and Assembly is not a cons...

I would not put it exactly like that, but my hon. Friend is right to say that we are in untried, ...

The shadow Secretary of State knows my personal commitment to devolution. I would love to see it ...

I am encouraged to hear the hon. Gentleman remind the House of his support for devolution. I remi...

As a veteran of many talks processes, I urge caution on the part of the hon. Gentleman about the ...

The right hon. Gentleman is right, of course, that the Secretary of State is not exclusively—or, ...

I appreciate the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. However, we have indicated, in our will...

I am not sure that that is entirely fair. As I said, in the absence of a nationalist voice in thi...

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If the right hon. Gentleman wants to tell me that we will make progress on that and that the pros...

What I am going to say to the hon. Gentleman is that for me and my constituents, health and educa...

I would not disagree with that. I am sure that that is the view of constituents from all parts of...

I support my hon. Friend’s comments. He will know that I was one of the last direct rule Minister...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his remarks, because he speaks with real, lived experience of th...

Surely the importance of the Prime Minister bothering to visit Northern Ireland is that it would ...

I think that people in Northern Ireland will not understand why their Prime Minister—the Prime Mi...

I understand where the hon. Gentleman is coming from, but if the Secretary of State were to act o...

I understand the right hon. Gentleman’s point—indeed, I mentioned the political disagreement. Equ...

I point the hon. Gentleman firmly towards our proposals on customs and agriculture, as well as on...

None of those proposals has been taken remotely seriously by our interlocutors in Brussels. None ...

Will the hon. Gentleman spell out his party’s Northern Ireland policy? In order to avoid the hard...

I agree with the EU that it is absolutely essential that we avoid a hard border on the island of ...

Does the hon. Gentleman recognise, as the Northern Ireland Committee found out on its recent visi...

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I will give way to my hon. Friend and then I will respond to the hon. Member for South West Wilts...

Order. The hon. Gentleman has to do one and then the other.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker; I stand corrected.

In no way, shape or form should we dama...

Of course there is a very simple way to meet the DUP’s stated objectives—two objectives I share—o...

I have some sympathy with that very interesting idea, but I am not sure that it is entirely withi...

I very much welcome the remarks made by the hon. Member for Pontypridd (Owen Smith) and my right ...

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee heard a couple of weeks ago from the Chief Constable about...

I certainly share the concern about long-term planning. In general, we do such planning through t...

I declare an interest in that my husband is the permanent secretary of the Department of Health i...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right. That is what I mean by kicking the can down the road. Those de...

On the Department of Health—this could also apply to other Departments—is my hon. Friend concerne...

My right hon. Friend, who served in a distinguished way in the Northern Ireland Office, knows tha...

The hon. Gentleman has made interesting comments about direct rule and some of its dangers. Does ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, who is right on two counts. First, my Committee is mindful o...

I also sit on the Committee, and in support of my hon. Friend’s comments, I point out that we are...

Absolutely. My hon. Friend tempts me down a path, with which you might have some issue, Madam Dep...

I am interested to learn of the work of my hon. Friend’s Committee, which becomes more important ...

Yes. I share the concerns of many about Northern Ireland’s voice at this time. Northern Ireland i...

Does my hon. Friend not think it is particularly important that the voice of the nationalist comm...

Yes, I really do. Although it is of course Sinn Féin’s choice not to take its seats here—one that...

The hon. Gentleman talks, from his esteemed position as Chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Com...

I very much agree with the right hon. Gentleman. [Interruption.] It is sort of a cop out, if he w...

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for allowing me to intervene, particularly as he is draw...

I look forward to Mr Trevor Reaney’s conclusions and it would be wrong to pre-empt them, but we w...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South West Wiltshire (Dr Murrison). I am sure we w...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the failure of the Sinn Féin Finance Minister in the Assembl...

Many people in Northern Ireland, not only Unionists but commentators, particularly in the Irish R...

If my right hon. Friend’s thesis is right and Sinn Féin has no desire to return to power sharing ...

I am saying that many people believe that. I am told by Sinn Féin leaders—we hear it constantly —...

My personal view is that Sinn Féin does not give a damn and wants to destroy the entire concept o...

I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but I have to say that the last 10 years, during which time ...

One measure still available to the Secretary of State is to call another election. What would the...

The hon. Lady raises an interesting point. As things stand—under current legislation—the Secretar...

I wonder if the right hon. Gentleman could just clarify an interesting point: he and his colleagu...

The hon. Lady raises an interesting question. Certainly, the Irish Prime Minister has had somethi...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Belfast North (Nigel Dodds). I endorse his c...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

No, as others want to speak.

It is simply not fair on the civil service to expect it to del...

First, I want to make clear my support for the Secretary of State’s comments regarding the PSNI a...

Order. To be absolutely sure that everybody has the opportunity to speak, I impose a time limit o...

I hope not to get too close to that time limit.

I also rise to support the Bill, although i...

The Secretary of State has indicated the process by which the Bill has come before us tonight. We...

Is it not the case that Sinn Féin has opted out since the Brexit decision? It has played on that ...

That brings me to my next point. The Secretary of State must be clear about Sinn Féin’s strategy....

I join the Secretary of State and the shadow Secretary of State in condemning the actions of thos...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. The Secretary of State is not currently here, but I tha...

My hon. Friend has raised a number of points about different Departments. Does he agree that it i...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on his hard work on the Select Committee on Environment, Food and R...

I wish to make some short remarks. What we are doing today is necessary, but this is a deeply dis...

I commend my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast South (Emma Little Pengelly) for setting out so c...

I have had the opportunity to make a number of interventions throughout this evening’s debate, so...

Does my hon. Friend agree that it is supremely ironic that the decisions taken over the past few ...

I agree that it is a case of “Brits in”, but of course the British have never left, and could nev...

The hon. Member for North Antrim (Ian Paisley) has given a powerful coda to what has been, as tho...

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I will happily give way to my party friend and colleague.

I thank my party friend and colleague. He said something about Labour being there, and I wondered...

Time is short tonight, Madam Deputy Speaker. There are things that I could say, and there are thi...

I thank the hon. Member for Ealing North (Stephen Pound) for his sober words, and for his party’s...

There has been little or no discourse tonight about the desire of all of us to see devolution res...

We have spent significant time on the future of devolution and what the next steps should be. Tha...

The debate has been good; there is general good will across the House towards Northern Ireland. T...

I am grateful for that intervention. Several options remain under close consideration. My right h...