Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill

My Lords, this group of amendments refers to the independence of the commission to be created. Th...

My Lords, I support the amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Browne of Ladyton. Over th...

My Lords, before I speak to my Amendment 14A, I just want to say that we may be wearing the same ...

My Lords, I just want to comment on a small but important point that the noble Baroness, Lady O’L...

My Lords, I want to comment briefly on the amendments in this group. Before I do so, once again, ...

My Lords, I start by agreeing with the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, in thanking the Minister for his g...

My Lords, the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Browne, gives us the opportunity to do two things...

My Lords, the independence of commissioners will be vital to the success of this commission, and ...

My Lords, this is an interesting and timely debate. I join many of your Lordships in thanking the...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Murphy of Torfaen, for his kind words, and t...

I thank the Minister for his characteristically engaging response. He addressed a significant num...

Moved by

Lord Bew (CB)

36: Clause 4, page 4, line 31, at end insert—

“(4) Befor...

My amendment to Clause 4 is similar to Amendments 99 and 101, which I spoke to in previous discus...

I thank my noble friend for giving way. I think the Supreme Court decided that the particular app...

I thank my noble friend for that intervention. I think the implications of the Supreme Court ruli...

My Lords, I too pay tribute to the Minister for his open door and willingness to engage. I hope t...

The noble Lord is always welcome.

I thank the Minister. However—this is no criticism of him—I think that he is doing his very best ...

I am sorry to interrupt. How were the victims consulted, and what did they think about the pardon...

Actually, those letters, which started before my time as Secretary of State, were not pardons at ...

My Lords, I am very glad to have added my name to Amendment 112, in the name of the noble Lord, L...

I do not disagree with anything the noble Lord has said. The problem is that the House’s role is ...

The noble Lord says that we cannot reject a Bill, but of course we can. It should be done very ra...

I will add to the words of the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, about the options open to the House at p...

Sorry, I missed that.

It is complicated. Clause 18 provides that the commission can grant immunity for not only all ide...

My Lords, I have amendments in this group. I say emphatically at the outset to the noble Lord, Lo...

My Lords, I would like to mention one factor which may be naïve and maybe I just cannot see it, b...

My Lords, it is an honour to follow the very powerful speech of the noble Viscount, Lord Brookebo...

My Lords, this has been a powerful debate because, irrespective of their party-political affiliat...

My Lords, in dealing with this group of amendments, as we have to, it is undoubtedly the case, as...

Perhaps the noble Lord would like to ask the question of what information given to the commission...

That is an entirely fair and justified point. I look forward to the Minister responding directly ...

My Lords, apart from all else that has been said, this group of amendments takes the House to the...

My Lords, I agree with every word that the noble and right reverend Lord, Lord Eames, said. For 5...

My Lords, as was said by the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, this is an extremely important debate....

My Lords, this has been a very impressive, rather stunning debate. I have tabled Clause 18 stand ...

My Lords, I would like to say that I will try to be brief, but I fear that that might be impossib...

I of course acknowledge that letter, since I helped get it together, and I have said in debate th...

I appreciate what the noble Lord has said. I pay tribute to the work of Jon Boutcher, and I hope ...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I would just like to ask him: does he think that Clause 18 i...

I dealt with this to some extent last week, but I will go on to deal with it later in the course ...

There is a big difference between starting from scratch and having something fully worked out. Th...

The words “I’ll believe it when I see it” spring to mind, given the experience of successive Gove...

I do not want to delay things unduly but, if my noble friend were to have a round table with thos...

It might well be that a round table of noble Lords who have taken part in this debate could produ...

Does he mean that the commission will ask them who their accomplices were and that they must not ...

It is fairly straightforward. The commission will ask whatever questions it believes to be approp...

I thank the Minister for giving way. Very briefly, his Amendment 137 refers to “other harmful con...

I will need to read the clause through again and come back to the noble Baroness on that, if I ma...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.