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HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThis is incredibly important. What we should be focused on is Stormont being up and running. The people of Northern Ireland need and deserve their institutions to be functioning…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolWith the greatest respect, I would say to my right hon. Friend that this is also about the people of Northern Ireland. It is about the communities in Northern Ireland and the…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI join the hon. Gentleman in paying tribute to my hon. Friend the Minister of State. He is absolutely right to shower praise on him. Not only has my hon. Friend been instrumental…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend for his support, which means a lot to me because the topic of Brexit is something that he has thought and done a lot about over the years. He is…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThe UK is and will remain a member of the ECHR. Today’s agreement is about the Belfast/Good Friday agreement—the hon. Lady was right to highlight it—and restoring the balance in…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolMy right hon. and learned Friend makes an excellent point. He will remember that the Government had to drop from the UKIM Bill certain provisions guaranteeing unfettered access…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend for his support and for the advice that he has provided to me and the team. This is obviously an area that he knows well from his own experience, and…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI hope that the hon. Gentleman takes the time to study the deal in detail, and that he will see, after he has done that, that it delivers against the objectives that I set out,…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolMy hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is something that I know the Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office, my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe is specifically focused…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolYes, as a simple matter of fact, the European Court of Justice is the final arbiter on matters of EU law. That is what the President said; she is right. That is simply the legal…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend for his support. He is right to highlight the many areas of co-operation that we can and should have with the European Union. Science and research is…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI do believe that the new arrangement we have made—the Windsor framework—provides the basis for peace, prosperity and stability in Northern Ireland. That is why I have brought it…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend for his comments and pay tribute to his service. I know that this is a topic that he rightly cares about. I am happy to clarify. It is for us to make…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI am sure that the Bill did create the conditions for us to have the negotiation that we did, but, as the Government were clear about and said at the time, our preference was…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my hon. Friend for the engagement he has had, with me in particular, and the advice he has provided. Section 38 of that Act was a testament to him, and it reasserts the…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolMy approach, and indeed that of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State, is to engage with all communities, all parties and all business groups in Northern Ireland, because…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my right hon. Friend and pay tribute to him for the work he did on this topic in his role as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. It was invaluable in paving the way…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThe Windsor framework provides a legally sound sustainable basis on which to move forward. It brings enormous improvement to the situation in Northern Ireland. It safeguards…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolI thank my hon. Friend and wholeheartedly agree with him. This framework provides a positive basis to move forward. It ensures that we respect the balance of all communities, and…27 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolThe UK Government are also exploring mechanisms for a carbon border adjustment mechanism—it is something the Treasury started consulting on last year. That is one of the dialogues…27 Feb 2023