Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]

My Lords, the Liberal Democrat Benches broadly welcome the Bill in the context of delivering on t...

My Lords, I support the Bill and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Caine, for his excellent introducti...

My Lords, first, I add my condemnation of the vile footage regarding the McAreavey family, which ...

My Lords, we all know that language and politics are frequently bound up, even in some of the str...

My Lords, the Second Reading of the Bill is an opportunity to put it into context, to look at why...

My Lords, first I add my words of condemnation of the footage that is doing the rounds at the mom...

My Lords, I wish to make some comments in the gap. At the outset, I would just like to come along...

My Lords, no one can deny that the Irish language has been weaponised by Sinn Féin and the SDLP. ...

My Lords, so far, I have found this debate rather depressing. The Bill has been a long time in th...

My Lords, it has been an interesting debate. I sometimes wonder how we ever passed the Good Frida...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to respond to this debate, and I thank all those who have taken ...

Yet.

The noble Baroness says “Yet” from a sedentary position. The Bill, with its safeguards, makes it ...

During the three years when Sinn Féin brought down the Assembly, how many pieces of legislation d...

We put through a number of pieces of legislation— for example, the Northern Ireland (Executive Fo...