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HANSARD Supreme Court Dillon JudgmentThank you, Mr Speaker. The right hon. Gentleman knows that the reason why the immunity provisions had no support from any of the political parties in Northern Ireland and no…14 May 2026HANSARDIndependent Commission for Reconciliation and Information RecoveryI made a written ministerial statement on 15 April about Peter May’s review into the corporate effectiveness and cultural health of the Independent Commission for Reconciliation…14 May 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI am grateful to the hon. Member for Lagan Valley (Sorcha Eastwood) for her question. Shortly before 11 pm on Saturday 25 April, a vehicle was abandoned just outside the front…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI join the hon. Member in her expression of thanks to the police and in her expressions of concern for all those who have been affected. As she well knows, PSNI resources are…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI certainly do. That is why anyone with any information has a responsibility to provide it to the PSNI so that people may be called to account. The police and our security…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI join the hon. Member in his tribute to the Police Service of Northern Ireland, and agree with him that the response from all communities in Northern Ireland to this terrible…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI say to my hon. Friend that the huge significance of the Good Friday agreement is that it charted a way forward and made clear the peaceful means by which those who wish to seek…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackYes, it is a reserved matter, but there is a shared responsibility across Northern Ireland to defeat terrorism. That is a political responsibility and it is a policing and…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI very much agree with my hon. Friend’s last point. I meet the Justice Minister, the police and security partners on a very regular basis, and we discuss all of these matters and…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI agree with the hon. Gentleman that it is the responsibility of all political leaders—indeed, of all in society in Northern Ireland—to give their full-hearted support to the…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI have had many conversations with the Chief Constable about funding and other matters. I would just point out, as I did a moment ago, that as a result of the provisions of the…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his opening remarks. I have already said that I think that all politicians, in Northern Ireland and throughout the United Kingdom,…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackFor reasons that I hope the House will understand, I am not going to speculate about the nature of the devices, but the right hon. Gentleman is right: given that the device on…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI join the hon. Member in remembering the late Ian Gow, who gave such distinguished service to this House and was killed in that terrible attack—one of a number of Members who…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI do not accept the hon. Member’s characterisation of what is in the troubles Bill that we will be discussing later, because the threshold consideration for prosecutions remains…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackWell, I do not accept that I said that it is only a Northern Ireland problem. The reason I answered questions relating to the funding is because I was asked by hon. and right hon.…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI will take the hon. Member’s question away. The allocation of resources is a matter for the Chief Constable. This is a very urgent investigation. I point out to him that one of…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackThe hon. Member, quite rightly, speaks with great sincerity and anger about what has happened. On the very last point that she raised, she will be familiar with the provisions of…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackI know that the Police Service of Northern Ireland is treating this particular investigation with the urgency that it requires. Referring to the question from the hon. Member for…27 Apr 2026HANSARDDunmurry Police Station AttackThere is a huge amount of effort going in, as I indicated earlier, and most of it is unseen by the general public for reasons that everyone in the House will understand. As much…27 Apr 2026