"I was not speaking against someone being in the room. I am speaking about someone being in the room whenever it is on Zoom or on camera and not in person, because you do not know whether the person in the room is privately and secretly coercing that person...." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech
"My Lords, earlier in the debate, the noble Baroness, Lady Jay of Paddington, intervened to say that she could not understand why, having talked so much, we had not actually talked about terminal illness. If the noble Baroness remains in her place, she will be here for the fifth group …..." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech
"My Lords, there are just a few remarks I would like to make. We live in an age where it is hard to get a human to interact with any more. We lift the phone and speak to a voice that says that if you want one thing, press 1, …..." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech
"My Lords, I r support Amendment 450 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Foster. Like the noble Baroness, and many others in this Chamber, the legacy of terrorism is not merely an abstract term for me. It is not a sentence on a piece of paper. It is …..." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech
"My Lords, I listened carefully to what the noble Baroness, Lady Royall, said, but I believe it is important that Members who feel they have a contribution to make are able to make that contribution without being cut short...." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech
This has been a telling debate thus far, because we are told that some of the points are based on opinion polls. We are not an elected Chamber and therefore we do not have to be swayed by how we are to get …..." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech
"Part of the noble Lord’s argument is based on assisted suicide being so popular with the general public that 70% of people want it. If that is so, perhaps he can help me to understand why none of the parties in this House put in their manifesto that they want …..." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech
"If that is so, then let us put it into the Bill. Let us be sure that it is in the Bill so there is no ambiguity. I notice that the noble Lord, Lord Scriven, does not want that. That is why I am wondering—..." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech
"And I am responding by saying that if we want to be sure that there is no ambiguity whatever—we are talking about the issue of life and death and, by what was suggested earlier on, inside a matter of days this was all to be over—there should be clarity. I …..." Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown - View Speech