Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill Debate
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Claire Hanna
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Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Bill
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Committee stage
Tuesday 29th November 2022
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Tuesday 29th November 2022
(1 year, 5 months ago)
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Sir Jeffrey M. Donaldson
Not only would that be unreasonable, but those Assembly Members were elected on a mandate not to do so.
Claire Hanna
Does that mandate extend to the former Minister at the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs who, while government was being withheld from people, was writing to UK Government Ministers asking for portions of the protocol to be retained, to benefit financially farmers such as himself?