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HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentMy Lords, yesterday the Supreme Court considered the appeal brought to it last year and found in the Government’s favour. Regardless of this outcome, significant problems with the…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI am very grateful to the noble Lord for his question. I gently point out that in the Supreme Court the Government won on all counts brought by the applicants. On his specific…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI am very grateful to the noble Baroness. As I have said on many occasions, she is a very distinguished former Northern Ireland Office Minister. We debated these issues at some…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentThe noble Baroness will be aware that I have been a consistent supporter of the Belfast agreement since it was reached on 10 April 1998. We are about to mark its 25th anniversary.…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI agree with my noble friend and thank him for his kind words. We are seeking to achieve, as I indicated in my opening Answer, a situation that respects the integrity of the EU…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI will resist the attempt to turn the House of Lords into another branch of the Supreme Court and relitigate the case on which judgment was reached yesterday. All I will say to my…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI am grateful to the former First Minister of Northern Ireland for her comments. We will of course continue to study the judgment very carefully, because, as I indicated to my…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI note that the former First Minister is a proud Anglican. While there have been modifications, I take on board the noble Baroness’s comments. As I said in answer to an earlier…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentClearly, we do not want anybody in any part of the United Kingdom to feel like a second-class citizen. As I set out in my comments on the Northern Ireland Budget Bill on Tuesday,…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentAs I just pointed out in response to his noble friend, the noble Lord, Lord McCrea, this is an issue we are seeking to resolve in the negotiations. I cannot really go into any…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI have great admiration for the noble Lord, but I am never one to speculate, especially at the Dispatch Box. As I have said on many occasions, I prefer to dwell less on how we got…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI can assure my noble friend that, as a staunch unionist, I would have no issue whatever in commemorating or marking 1 January 1801 every year. I have already answered his…09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Hay, for his question, which I think I have covered in my previous answers.09 Feb 2023HANSARDProtocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court JudgmentMy noble friend, as a former Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, makes a valuable point. He will of course be aware that the Government have proposed, and are currently…09 Feb 2023HANSARDOmagh BombingI am sure the noble Baroness will have her opportunity shortly. I am grateful to the noble Baronesses, Lady Smith of Basildon and Lady Suttie, for their broad support and welcome…09 Feb 2023HANSARDOmagh BombingI fully acknowledge the comments of the noble Lord, Lord McCrea, and I am well aware that he has, sadly, during his political and ministerial career—ministerial in a religious…09 Feb 2023HANSARDOmagh BombingIt is with some trepidation that I rise to answer the questions of the noble Baroness, given her previous role as a distinguished Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland: she…09 Feb 2023HANSARDOmagh BombingI am grateful, as always, to my noble friend for his kind words. He makes his case with customary force and eloquence. Of course, we have yet to complete Committee on the legacy…09 Feb 2023HANSARDOmagh BombingI am most grateful to my noble friend for her comments and question. She will be aware that, in the course of meeting many victims’ groups in Northern Ireland, I have had similar…09 Feb 2023HANSARDOmagh BombingI am grateful to the noble Lord, who is another distinguished former Northern Ireland Office Minister. He referred to Article 2 obligations, and of course His Majesty’s Government…09 Feb 2023