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Debate on bill on Thursday, 11 March 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Paul Goggins. The answering member was Laurence Robertson.

Northern Ireland Assembly Members Bill [Lords]

Northern Ireland Assembly Members Bill (HL). Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion agreed on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
507 c491-508 
Session
2009-10
Department
Northern Ireland Office
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Lembit Opik | 507 c491 (Link to this contribution) From my Back-Bench position, may I reciprocate by offering my praise to the Government for what is p...
Paul Goggins | 507 c491 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. After the long negotiations at Hillsborough...
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Paul Goggins | 507 c493 (Link to this contribution) I do not think it is given what the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash) said. Although it is true that ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 507 c493 (Link to this contribution) There are two jobs, but what about Ministers?
William Cash | 507 c492-3 (Link to this contribution) The issue does not arise in my case and is never likely to. As it happens, I still do not understand...
William Cash | 507 c492 (Link to this contribution) Is it understood and accepted that when someone is in the position of having a dual mandate, a reaso...
Paul Goggins | 507 c492 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman had an advance copy of my speech, but I was at that very mo...
Paul Goggins | 507 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) We have just over three hours for this debate, and in that time, it would not be possible for me to ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 507 c493 (Link to this contribution) It will certainly not be helpful. This business about there being only 24 hours in a day is absolut...
Paul Goggins | 507 c493 (Link to this contribution) I feel a helpful intervention coming on from my hon. Friend.
Lord Cormack | 507 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) I can see the hon. Gentleman nodding vigorously, and I know that you share those views, Mr. Deputy S...
Speaker | 507 c506 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman needs the leave of the House.
Paul Goggins | 507 c506 (Link to this contribution) This has been a good, thoughtful and short debate—
Paul Goggins | 507 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) Ah! The hon. Gentleman was declaring the same interest as my hon. Friend the Member for Foyle. We w...
David Simpson | 507 c507 (Link to this contribution) In case I did not put it on record at the beginning, I want to make it very clear that I am also a M...
Paul Goggins | 507 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I should like to respond briefly to what has been a...
David Simpson | 507 c507 (Link to this contribution) I made the point that I am also an MLA.
Paul Goggins | 507 c507 (Link to this contribution) Forgive me—because of another message that was coming my way, I did not quite catch the hon. Gentlem...
Mark Durkan | 507 c498-500 (Link to this contribution) As a Member of this House who has also been elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly and sits there,...
Laurence Robertson | 507 c497-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes, they do take their expenses. I am very unhappy about the situation that my hon. Friend the Mem...
Lord Cormack | 507 c505 (Link to this contribution) I am speaking of the Minister of State. That is not to cast any aspersions on the Secretary of State...
Lord Cormack | 507 c503-5 (Link to this contribution) Everybody who has spoken up to now supports the Bill, and so do I. May I begin, as others have, by c...
David Simpson | 507 c502-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. Of course, I agree 100 per cent., and our party is ...
Alistair Carmichael | 507 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) May I join others in expressing my pleasure at taking part in a debate on what is, for once, a fairl...
Christopher Fraser | 507 c497 (Link to this contribution) They do take their expenses, however.
William Cash | 507 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) No, it is to do with the constitutional arrangements in the context of devolution. As was pointed ou...
Laurence Robertson | 507 c495 (Link to this contribution) I join the Minister by saying how pleased Opposition Members were to see the Northern Ireland Assemb...
Paul Goggins | 507 c495 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is pleased to have had an opportunity to put his views on the reco...
Laurence Robertson | 507 c497 (Link to this contribution) I entirely understand my hon. Friend's point, and I have thought about this issue at length. May I r...
Lord Cormack | 507 c496 (Link to this contribution) However, does my hon. Friend not agree with me—and, indeed, the Minister—that if there is to be a pr...
Laurence Robertson | 507 c497 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for South Staffordshire (Sir Patrick Cormack) takes me on to a slightly di...
Lord Cormack | 507 c497 (Link to this contribution) This is a very important issue in the Northern Ireland context, because, after all, five Members who...
Lord Cormack | 507 c494 (Link to this contribution) I do not particularly want to pursue the "Cash question", but I wish to put down a marker for the Mi...
Paul Goggins | 507 c494 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman says, it is ultimately for the electorate to decide who represents them in thi...
Paul Goggins | 507 c493 (Link to this contribution) I give way first to my hon. Friend, who I suspect wants to follow up his earlier point, and then I w...
Paul Goggins | 507 c494 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for that clarification, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Andre...
Speaker | 507 c494 (Link to this contribution) Order. Let us not worry too much about who started it. I am more concerned with who ends it, and tha...
Andrew Mackinlay | 507 c494 (Link to this contribution) He started it—the hon. Member for Stone (Mr. Cash).
Speaker | 507 c494 (Link to this contribution) Order. The debate is in danger of widening beyond its remit.
Andrew Mackinlay | 507 c493-4 (Link to this contribution) I preface my remarks by saying genuinely that I mean no disrespect to any hon. Members from Northern...
Paul Goggins | 507 c493 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend has had the opportunity to put that on the record. While the hon. Memb...
Christopher Fraser | 507 c502 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree with Sir Christopher Kelly, who told the Assembly's Standards and Priv...
David Simpson | 507 c502 (Link to this contribution) I should like to start by making reference to the Minister's welcome for the decision taken by the A...
Subjects
Allowances Devolution Dual mandate Pay Workplace pensions Northern Ireland Assembly members
Legislation
Northern Ireland Assembly Members Bill (HL) 2009-10
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