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Terrorism Bill

In drafting the clause, did the Government take any thought at all for the circumstances of Northern Ireland? Those Members of the Committee who have visited that part of the world will be well aware that to this day one sees murals on the gable-ends of houses which can only be thought to glorify paramilitary activity of men uprising against all constituted order. That has been the case for many years. It is well known that there are songs celebrating 1916 or, on the other hand, Orange domination. These things have never been prosecuted. We may all disapprove of them and think that they ought not to exist in an ideal world, but they are there. Surely, the Government are not going to upset what has been considered and accepted policy over a very long period of years.