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Proceeding contribution from Lord Rooker (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 11 January 2006. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Northern Ireland.


Northern Ireland

My Lords, I have repeated a Statement made by the Secretary of State. That is it. The Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill dealt with specific issues about on-the-runs. The noble Lord is quite right: it was not part of the Good Friday agreement, as people have wrongly claimed, but it was not a surprise. A public document was published in 2003 which set out what would happen if a sequence of events occurred—that is, the abandonment of the war by the IRA. I cannot go beyond that, because that is what this issue is about.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
677 c174-5 
Session
2005-06
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Subjects
Devolution Offenders Northern Ireland Assembly Northern Ireland government Terrorism
Legislation
Northern Ireland (Offences) Bill 2005-06
Link
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