Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Exercise of Functions) Bill

I hope that the noble Lord will allow me to expand on that later. However, in response to him dir...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for introducing the Bill before the House today, and I think we ...

My Lords, those who spoke before me, albeit just two, have committed themselves to devolution in ...

My Lords, will the noble Lord explain to the House what the Parliament of the United Kingdom is s...

I simply point out again to the noble Lord that it is a devolved matter—but he consciously ignore...

My Lords, I said when the Bill was first mooted that it was a smokescreen for failure, and that i...

My Lords, my intention is to speak about Clause 4 only and the legal situation which is the backg...

My Lords, the Bill is a sad necessity and many of us hoped that the Executive and institutions wo...

My Lords, the columns of our newspapers in Northern Ireland are frequently filled with people giv...

My Lords, no one in this House who has just heard what the noble and right reverend Lord said wou...

My Lords, I rise to support this Bill—the fifth piece of fast-track Northern Ireland legislation ...

My Lords, regrettably we are again discussing another piece of legislation that should not have b...

My Lords, in March 1979, four days after Airey Neave was brutally murdered in the precincts of Pa...

My Lords, I have a lot of sympathy with the suggestion made by the noble Lord that we could have ...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Trimble. Given the success he br...

I want to ask the noble Lord whether he thinks he was right in saying that this Parliament in Wes...

My Lords, I absolutely defer to the noble and learned Baroness. If she says that that is the case...

My Lords, other noble Lords have already commented on the fact that yet again, we have fast-track...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alderdice. I have been scratching out b...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate but, like others, I wish it was ...

My Lords, it is almost a year since the noble Lord, Lord Rogan, and I both had the honour to be a...

My Lords, as someone who contributed actively to the creation of the Belfast agreement in 1998 it...

I declare an interest. My husband is the chair of arc21, the organisation created by six district...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness. Although this is not a time-limited debate, might she...

I am coming to an end.

Most recently, in June the noble Lord, Lord O’Shaughnessy, gave me a...

My Lords, I add my voice to those of noble Lords who expressed their sadness that we are, once ag...

Noble Lords will be delighted to hear that I have slashed my speech by about 50%, in view of the ...

My Lords, before I comment on Clause 4, to which the noble Lord, Lord Curry, and others have been...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Hayward, and I wish him all success wi...

My Lords, I very much welcome the Bill to the House this afternoon.

Before I come to the Bi...

My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging debate and I sympathise with the noble Lord, Lord Duncan, ...

My Lords, it is always a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Kilclooney, particularly b...

My Lords, to use the term “wide-ranging” for today’s debate would be an understatement. I shall t...