Can we be clear about this? The alternative to a functioning Executive and Assembly is not a consultative Assembly and not direct rule; it is the onward implementation of strands 2 and 3 of the Good Friday agreement. There will not be direct rule in isolation. An intergovernmental conference will have to be convened, and Northern Ireland would be governed in partnership between the Irish Government and the UK Government, as envisaged in the provisions of the Good Friday agreement.
Northern Ireland Budget Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Conor McGinn
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 13 November 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Northern Ireland Budget Bill.
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