Speeches by Kane.

“Cosplay: dressing up. People dressing up in military uniforms and marching in lockstep happens all the time in my local park, but it is usually the local civil war society or medieval society, yet that still goes on terms of the conflict in Northern Ireland. The Irish and British Governments appointed Fleur Ravensberge…”

“Do you still think this is organised thuggery? Is it organised criminality to do with the drugs gangs that you talked about? Is there a far-right, alt-right rise behind this, which we know chief constables are slightly worried about across the UK?”

“It is paramilitary groups; I am not talking about legitimate St Patrick’s Day or other parades.”

“There is a lot to ponder, for sure. I am going to stick to my question on legislative change, if that is okay. This individual threatened to string people up, threatened to skin them alive, to force confessions from them. He then did it anyway and played those confessions to the victims’ families. He ended up with a ho…”

“February will represent the 25th anniversary of the opening of the second runway at Manchester airport in my constituency, with capacity for 60 million passengers. Does the Secretary of State agree that his announcement will finally allow the airport to achieve its full potential?”

“On skills, looking at our reports around those agglomeration issues, there seems to be a 31% productivity gap between Belfast and Derry/Londonderry, yet Londonderry/Derry is served by both a train line and an airport. It seems to me that in Northern Ireland you have to start from where you are at, and 82% of graduates …”

“Why did you not export them to Manchester? That would be my next question.”

“Changes to funding formulas can throw up huge anomalies. The Minister is well aware that Trafford council, which covers part of my constituency, is one of those anomalies. Will she commit to work with my Trafford parliamentary colleagues, Trafford council and me to see if we can iron out some of those issues?”

“For the record, I am not against the PSNI being well funded.”

“When we talk about additional security funding, councils are responsible for community cohesion. We did see wanton violence in Ballymena. You also mentioned the far right, which I suffer from in my white working-class constituency. Social media and domestic violence are issues right across the board in the UK. Is the A…”

“Thank you. Is it focused enough? As you said, are the finances driving the change? You have seen community policing completely ripped away in Northern Ireland, as I have in my city, as it happens. I really miss it. Is the additional security funding focused enough?”

“If we are going for that normalisation approach, that might be—”

“I suppose it is a measure of the progress that has been made that we have talked about policing issues, possibly except for the question of community recruitment, but I come from a city that had a terrorist attack on a synagogue a couple of weeks ago. In 2017, we saw 22 lives lost and 250 injured with the Manchester Ar…”

“That was No. 5.”

“There will be 18 of them.”

“We know that this was a brutal, murderous conflict, but, as we are reminded today, it was internecine as well at times. “There’ll be days like this”, in the words of one of Northern Ireland’s famous sons, but does the Secretary of State agree that, even on days like this, we should continue to keep victims and families…”

“When we talk about emotive subjects such as this one, it is important that we establish the facts. The hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe) recently railed on social media against illegal migrants coming to his constituency. They happened to be canoeists traversing the Atlantic and fundraising for motor neurone…”

“T3. The Government’s new youth investment fund is supporting the charity Nacro in my constituency to build a youth hub in Wythenshawe park. The Minister knows my constituency well, so I am sure he will agree that this project shows that we have an Administration who are serious about investing in our nation’s young peo…”

“That is a very good answer. In terms of space, we need sovereign space capability in the United Kingdom. There is a big Glasgow cluster. We can launch from the north. Most of Europe is landlocked. It seems like a huge opportunity for the advanced manufacturing sector in Northern Ireland, as well as the decarbonisation …”

“Thank you, Vice-Chancellor; it is lovely to meet you. On that basis that regional growth drives innovation, investment and business, the British and Irish Governments signed the deal in 2020 around the Magee campus for the equivalent of 10,000 full-time students. I was wondering how that journey of driving innovation, …”