My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply. I believe that NDNA is a fair package, but I am not convinced that the Bill is totally fair. It is important for the Government to engage with this problem, and nothing that the Minister has said provides a compelling reason for concluding that NDNA stipulates that while the Irish-speaking community should have access to a right to complain in relation to all matters within the mandate of its commissioner, the Ulster Scots and Ulster-British tradition should be denied this right in relation to all that commissioner’s work, apart from something whose secondary importance is acknowledged by virtue of the fact that it is mentioned only in brackets. I hope that this will be debated further in the other place, and, therefore, I wish to withdraw my amendment.
Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Browne of Belmont
(Democratic Unionist Party)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 6 July 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL].
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