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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 25 Apr 2017
Contaminated Blood

"The House should not forget that there was a tribunal of inquiry in Ireland. The Lindsay inquiry found that the state knew of the risks and continued nevertheless, because that was what other states such as the UK were doing. So is it credible that an inquiry in Ireland could …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Apr 2017
Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill

"Will the Secretary of State clarify whether, in his mind, such legislation in that context would amount to direct rule in the sense that we have always know it, or would it be some form of downloadable legislative cover for administrative governance when it comes to further budget setting?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Apr 2017
Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill

"I agree with the hon. Gentleman that the Government here should have acted more quickly as the RHI scandal emerged, but he is painting a complete fiction by trying to say that the DUP wanted a public inquiry—it entirely opposed a public inquiry. It was on the same page as …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Apr 2017
Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill

"In following the hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson), I should say that I was struck by the number of times he condemned Sinn Féin for using a veto—that from the DUP, the most veto-holic of all the parties, not least in relation to the abuse of the petition …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Apr 2017
Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill

"No. The biggest abuse of the petition of concern comes whenever it is used to prevent motions in the Assembly—even non-binding motions and valid and credible motions of censure—from having any standing whatever. If people are going to use the petition of concern in relation to motions of censure in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Apr 2017
Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill

"I am entirely happy with operating the Good Friday agreement as the people voted for it—people of Ireland north and south. A petition of concern would mean that a mechanism could be checked and proofed. If there were not concerns in relation to rights and equality, it could proceed in …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Apr 2017
Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill

"We have to use the timeline that is created here and now. We also have to use such good will as any of us were able to detect in the talks in Stormont Castle over the past number of weeks.

I personally would not come to the conclusion that one …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Apr 2017
Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill

"I accept that those bodies have given that indication, but they have not said how it will be done. The Prime Minister has been careful to say that she wants the border to be as frictionless and seamless as possible and that there would be

“no return to the hard …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 24 Apr 2017
Northern Ireland (Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates) Bill

"I remind my hon. Friend that when it came to the Stormont House talks, it was the SDLP who submitted the papers on a whole community approach to tackling paramilitarism, it was the SDLP who put in a whole enforcement approach to tackling paramilitarism, and, in fact, it was the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 19 Apr 2017
Early Parliamentary General Election

"As someone who believes that the Prime Minister has presented the case for this election on an entirely false premise, I, too, will be voting against the motion. I was not asking for an election last week or the week before; I was arguing that any move to an election …..."
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