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Northern Ireland Bill

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Strangford (Mrs. Robinson), who clearly set out the conditions under which the Democratic Unionist party would enter into Executive Government in Northern Ireland, as did my other right hon. and hon. Friends who have already spoken. I listened carefully to the hon. Member for North Down (Lady Hermon). I am not sure whether her speech had been passed or endorsed by Cunningham house. How much of it will gain assent from the leadership of her party remains to be seen. Given her comments and her attitude today—suggesting that she would divide the House on Second Reading if she were in a position to do so—I wonder whether members of her party will turn up at Stormont to participate in the Assembly when it is called on 15 May.