Northern Ireland (Stormont Agreement and Implementation Plan) Bill

My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment. We hear so little in this House about Northern I...

My Lords, I take this opportunity to support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, who...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, in his amendment, but I do so from a point of...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, on what he has done over a number of yea...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Dunlop, for his courtesy in allowing us some very helpful ...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice, and I shall also speak to th...

In saying that the First Minister would have a veto, does the noble Lord recognise that there is ...

What I said was that the veto would rest within the Office of the First Minister.

My Lords, like all who have spoken in this very interesting and wide-ranging debate, I warmly end...

My Lords, I welcome the contributions of all noble Lords on these amendments. I record the Labour...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 1 and 2, tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Alderdice, and L...

The Minister says that he is quoting what was said in the fresh start agreement but, as I pointed...

I am glad that my noble friend raised that point because I am indeed about to address it. I recog...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who took part in this debate and expressed their stron...

Moved by

Lord Lexden

2A: Clause 2, page 2, line 6, at beginning insert “Republic of”<...

My Lords, at Second Reading I raised an issue of terminology in relation to the Bill. The text of...

My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lexden. On Second Reading, ...

My Lords, briefly, I support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lexden. The term “...

My Lords, as usual, the noble Lord, Lord Lexden, has an uncanny habit of putting his finger on so...

My Lords, everything that has been said by the previous three noble Lords who have spoken is sign...

Face the front.

My apologies. I hope that the microphone caught what I was saying and that the noble Lords could ...

My Lords, this is an interesting debate, but I wonder—I might annoy a few people by saying this—a...

I think that the noble Lord is missing the point. We are not telling the Dublin authorities what ...

I am contributing to the length of this debate and I should not be. These are international treat...

My Lords, in rising to respond to this short debate, I will echo the noble Lord, Lord McAvoy, in ...

My Lords, this has opened up an interesting and quite valuable debate. It has brought me some mil...

Moved by

Lord Empey

3: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause—

“Victim...

My Lords, I will take this opportunity first to remind noble Lords of our contributions at Second...

My Lords, efforts are increasingly being made by Sinn Fein/IRA to rewrite the history of the Trou...

My Lords, the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Empey, takes us to the very heart of the...

My Lords, when I was asked to help out this afternoon, I reflected that it is 22 years, I think, ...

My Lords, this amendment is essentially concerned with the definition or redefinition of a victim...

My Lords, I welcome the noble Lord, Lord Murphy, to the Dispatch Box. He played a very significan...

I am obliged to the Minister for his response. I would point out to the noble and right reverend ...

Moved by

Lord Empey

4: Clause 8, page 5, line 11, at end insert—

“(5) Standing ...

My Lords, this amendment was moved in the other place. It is on the back of the fact that a serie...

My Lords, Clause 7, which deals with the pledge of office, has seven objectives. The first six ar...

My Lords, I indicate my support for this amendment, which, as my noble friend Lord Empey says, wa...

My Lords, I support Amendment 4, proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Empey. As I have said before, N...

My Lords, again, I express a lot of sympathy with what the noble Lord, Lord Empey, and other nobl...

My Lords, this has been a short but important debate. Clause 8 makes provision for a new undertak...

Once again, I thank the Minister for his comments and thank other noble Lords who have participat...