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HANSARDRussia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 15) Regulations 2022The noble Lord, Lord Purvis, referred to £18 billion-worth of assets that have been seized. The noble Lord will be well aware of the billions that have been frozen under a United…21 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, Amendment 38, among others, refers to the role of the Northern Ireland Assembly in approving the conduct of Ministers. I suppose that a parallel would be a legislative…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillThe noble Lord is correct. I agree that history tells us that a vacuum will be filled, and it will not be filled by people who are committed to the democratic process. That is…07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillWait for it.07 Nov 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I want briefly to follow what the noble Lords, Lord Murphy and Lord Dodds, have said. The noble Lord, Lord Dodds, may be right about the European Union not wishing to…07 Nov 2022HANSARDGovernment of Wales (Devolved Powers) Bill [HL]My Lords, I think that I am the only non-Welsh Peer speaking in this debate, although I have Welsh antecedents on both sides of my family and am very proud of them. It is…28 Oct 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie, said, we are grateful to the Minister. A Minister being prepared to be flexible and listen to people makes a difference. But I gently…13 Jul 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]My Lords, like the noble Lord, Lord Deben, I deeply regret that this issue is being dealt with here. It is obvious from the first quarter of an hour of debate, from the many local…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]My Lords, I note all the probing amendments from the noble Lord, Lord Murphy, and the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie. The noble Baroness raises an interesting point. Mr Adams has not…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]My Lords, I support the four amendments that have just been spoken to. However, my worry about all of this is that people cannot be corralled into particular identities. Among…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]Does the noble Lord agree that the expenditure undertaken in these areas by local authorities also needs to be taken into account, as they have roads? The behaviour of some local…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]I am most grateful to the Minister. I am not constrained by anything Dame Arlene might have said at the time about “fair and balanced”. The Minister knows my views on this. We…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]My Lords, I added my name to this amendment. It reminds me of an issue in a negotiation that has been brought in at the last minute as a kind of balancing act. It has all the…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]My Lords, unlike a good wine, sometimes negotiations do not age well. Sometimes we get it right; sometimes we get it wrong. I think the noble Lord has a fair point. I do not know,…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]My Lords, I must say, I take a similar view to the noble Lord, Lord Morrow. For three years, when the Assembly was closed following Sinn Féin’s withdrawal in 2017, the noble…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]Or the other side. Whichever—the point is still valid. I am just saying that, if you throw out or undermine the concept that people have to agree, however difficult it is, for one…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]Not having been intimately involved in the New Decade, New Approach negotiations, is the noble Lord saying that there were no provisions in that agreement for Secretary of State…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]I am most grateful to the Minister for his last comment, but this is a fundamental issue around the devolution settlement. If we are making big distinctions over the areas of…22 Jun 2022HANSARDIdentity and Language (Northern Ireland) Bill [HL]The solution is the agreement. Let us suppose Sinn Féin proposes a convicted murderer or somebody who is anathema to a large section of the community to be a commissioner and a…22 Jun 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland ProtocolMy Lords, in the other place, the Secretary of State referred to unintended consequences. I have to say that all the consequences were foreseeable—and indeed were foreseen. The…17 May 2022