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Electoral Administration Act 2006 (Regulation of Loans etc.: Northern Ireland) Order 2008

My Lords, I draw the Minister’s attention to the example of the 25,000 people along the borders with Northern Ireland who could consider themselves to be British and not Irish. They have been recognised under the Belfast agreement and get parity of esteem and total equality, but under this order they do not. The Orange Grand Lodge of Donegal cannot give money—it operates in the Irish republic but is maintained and operated by people from a British background who consider themselves to be British—while its next-door neighbours, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, can. Does that seem fair and in the spirit of the Belfast agreement?