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Northern Ireland

I should like to ask the noble Baroness the Leader of the House for reassurance on one topic which has not really been covered in the Statement—I realise that it lies slightly outside. The Continuity IRA and the Real IRA—the dissidents—are definitely providing a greater risk and threat than they previously have. There is, according to the police, a haemorrhaging of people from the old IRA and therefore the technology that they use. The munitions that they have been using lately show that quite clearly. In Northern Ireland, we have quite a large part of the security services from this country, and that has not been devolved. We would like to hear an assurance that that effort will not ease up as a result of the success of this agreement. We must also remember that more recently, the information that has been given on various incidents has been from the Republic; the incidents we have had no lead in to have been planned in the north. Therefore, I think that we have a right to ask for increased security, and for reassurances that those services will not be devolved.