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HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, in any case, there will be parties that are disappointed to a greater extent than others. The point is that one party proposes. That party does not determine the…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, as we approach what I think will be the final series of amendments for discussion tonight, I am grateful to all noble Lords for their thoughtful and entirely…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, that question brings me on to dealing with the terms of the argument in relation to Article 16, about which we have had some submissions from the noble Lord himself, the…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, the diversion of trade and the effects upon the confidence of the unionist community in their membership of the United Kingdom have given rise to the difficulties we now…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I turn to Amendments 3 and 67 in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, and the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed. The Government acknowledge that the noble Lord…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, the problems with which we are grappling lie in the implementation of the protocol: I think the protocol has given a basis upon which these implementations may be made.25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillThe noble Lord promised at the very outset of Committee, when he opened the earlier debate, that this inconsistency would be pounced upon, and he has returned to the point. My…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her intervention, and I hope I will be able to, if not clear it up directly, refer the noble Baroness to the statements in the…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am referring to implementation in terms of the manner in which these problems have arisen: the problems that have led to the difficulties with which the House is currently…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I beg respectfully to differ from my noble friend. The situation is not the same, because in the intervening period between the announcements to which my noble friend…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillTo pick up the noble Lord’s point about the CJEU, the Belfast/Good Friday agreement is based, as we have heard, on the consent of both communities. It is part of a package, along…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillOr contributed. Where I and the Government differ from the noble Lord is in this regard: we signed the protocol in good faith, we negotiated in good faith, but we are entitled…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, the Government set out their position at the outset to assuage, hopefully, the concerns of Peers and Parliament generally about the steps which they intended to take. I…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for canvassing that. Again, I accept that it is an important point, as are all those that have been made around your Lordships’ House today. Not…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am coming to the noble Lord’s point. I am not proposing to wind up immediately. I acknowledge the importance of the debate we have heard. I pray for noble Lords’ forbearance if…25 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI am grateful to my noble friend. I was left by some of the strictures and anticipations of my point from noble Lords looking for synonyms for the words “long-standing…25 Oct 2022HANSARDImprisonment for Public Protection SchemeMy Lords, I join many of today’s speakers by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for securing this important debate. I say how glad I am to see her in her place and how much…13 Oct 2022HANSARDImprisonment for Public Protection SchemeI can give my noble friend an assurance that there will be engagement with the bodies to which he referred in his submission. As your Lordships recognise, it is a mark of the…13 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillI hear the noble Lord and will revert to him in due course. It is not possible to equiparate international law with domestic law. There is simply not enough of it and it is too…11 Oct 2022HANSARDNorthern Ireland Protocol BillMy Lords, I begin by expressing my appreciation for the very large number of thoughtful and informed contributions we have heard during this debate. It has been an honour to have…11 Oct 2022