"My Lords, this seems a strange, intimate place for us to have these formalities, but I am delighted to add my words to the debate on the Question before us. One of the first things I want to do is use this occasion to pay tribute to the noble Lord, …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech
"My Lords, I want to return to the question of the overseas territories, recognising the difference between Tristan da Cunha and the Cayman Islands, other than merely the question of lobsters. I speak as a member of the Constitution Committee, where we have urged the overseas territories time and again …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech
"My Lords, I add my thanks to the noble Baroness both for introducing this debate and for snatching every single remark that I had carefully put together by way of a contribution to this debate. We will have to sort this out at dawn with pistols. It is a great …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech
"My Lords, I add my tribute to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for keeping matters of this kind before us and demanding that we give them our attention. I am most grateful.
"My Lords, I have too little personal experience of Lord Mackay to be able to say anything substantial. But as a former church leader speaking to him as a wee free, we had animated and friendly conversation on more than one issue. At that level and in those terms, I …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech
"My Lords, AI crossed the threshold of my understanding and experience much earlier than for any other speaker in this debate thus far. When I left for an underdeveloped country and was given some responsibility for a rural rehabilitation project, I found that it was all centred on AI— but …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech
"My Lords, all of us are deeply indebted to the noble Lord, Lord Alton, who is like a dog with a bone—that is not a very noble metaphor, but I could not think of anything else—as he keeps on reminding us of the importance of these issues and the hard …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech
"My Lords, when we had the misfortune of leaving the European Union, Wales lost a significant amount of money from its structural programmes. The then Government promised that that shortfall would be more than made up for; indeed, the phrase was “not a penny less”. We have been promised that …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech
"My Lords, I attend this debate regularly but do not always—or even often—put my name down to speak. I feel that what I need to do in attending the debates is to listen hard to what is being said and to gather some kind of range or spectrum of ideas …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech
"My Lords, I rise to speak with some deference after the wealth of contributions that have been made thus far, but I want to begin by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath—I want to call him my noble friend; we worked on a committee together not so long …..." Lord Griffiths of Burry Port - View Speech