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Northern Ireland Assembly Members Bill [Lords]

Yes. The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. I have seen that operating in all three jurisdictions that have devolved Assemblies. Inevitably, as power is handed down—that is, of course, the process of devolution, as power is handed down from Westminster to other Assemblies and Parliaments—there will be developments that will keep going. We should be open-minded enough to learn from experience. That sort of use—let us not go so far as to call it a misuse or an abuse—of the facilities of one Assembly or Parliament to get one's foot in the door to become a Member of another is something that we will probably need to address and that Members of the devolved Assemblies and Parliaments will want to be addressed. If we, here, are part of a process that is about building stability and growing maturity, it should be in the interests of those Assemblies and Parliaments to get themselves to a point at which being a Member of that Assembly or Parliament is sufficiently significant to satisfy people and is not seen as a stepping stone towards this place or any other.