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HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastI am sure people would have asked our predecessors those sort of questions with the equivalence that came from the Belfast/Good Friday agreement under the Labour Government at the…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastMy right hon. Friend makes a powerful point. As he will appreciate, I know about the Robert Nairac case, which is a very good example of where we have not been able to get to…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastI appreciate that the hon. Gentleman tends in this House, as we saw yesterday, to use emotive comments for soundbites, often for his own social media outlet. To use somebody’s…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastI appreciate the comments of the Chairman of the Select Committee. There is a lot of work to do with our partners, not just victims and veterans—who of course are also often…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastI absolutely agree with the hon. Gentleman about making sure that we are able to get to the truth and get to information. Nobody in this House ever wants to see again a situation…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastThe hon. Member for Slough (Mr Dhesi) has just demonstrated that he has paid no real attention to what we have been talking about, and is clearly not up to speed with what we have…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastThe hon. Gentleman has highlighted some of the challenges in how we deal with such issues and move forward in this difficult reality. As we work through some of the details in the…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastMy right hon. Friend has huge expertise and experience in these matters. The Select Committee report is indeed very clear, and goes into great detail about how this can work. My…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastMy right hon. Friend has highlighted the seriousness with which we are taking our engagement. He is quite right that, as I said in the statement, I would have liked to have…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastI absolutely understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes with clarity and passion, as I know he has done before. Obviously, as I said, the Belfast/Good Friday agreement and…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastI thank my hon. Friend for his comments and the experience that he has shared with our Department over the last period. He has huge experience of serving in the armed forces and…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastWhere I agree with the hon. Gentleman is on the desire to end the intergenerational challenge and trauma that we are seeing, with families and people now with us who were simply…14 Jul 2021HANSARD Legacy of Northern Ireland’s PastYes, absolutely. I do not underestimate, and I do appreciate, as I said in my opening remarks, the fact that this is a very difficult, sensitive and complex situation. I…14 Jul 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillMy right hon. Friend makes a very important point. There are two points. First, at the end of last week some of Edwin Poots’s colleagues commented about an announcement. Actually,…22 Jun 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillAs I said before, we want to ensure that we put forward a package that works for all of Northern Ireland and genuinely allows it a chance to move forward. One thing that we have…22 Jun 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillAs I say, we are not dealing with legacy today, so I will resist the urge to go too much into that, but I will say that the right hon. Gentleman is correct in the sense that we…22 Jun 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillMy right hon. Friend asks a fair question—that is part of New Decade, New Approach, so it is a fair point. I outlined, I think in February or March this year, my ambition to bring…22 Jun 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Our focus, for all of us, as I have outlined over the last week or two, should be on making sure that we have stable institutions that can…22 Jun 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI have to say that I do not recognise the principle on which the right hon. Gentleman outlines his point. The reality is that the UK Government are the Government of the United…22 Jun 2021HANSARDNorthern Ireland (Ministers, Elections and Petitions of Concern) BillI will make a bit of progress, then I will give way to colleagues. In this centenary year for Northern Ireland, today marks exactly 100 years since the opening of the first…22 Jun 2021