Speeches by Swann.

“In previous answers, you have touched on the complexities that flow out of the Windsor framework. It is an ever-moving feast, with additional bureaucracy and checks being brought in. Has your role as a body been to keep that information and engage with businesses to make them aware of those complexities? I am trying to…”

“Compared with the funding of InterTradeIreland, that is completely off-kilter. Was that financial allocation given by the NIO and the Secretary of State, or was a business case put forward for your work? Your work programme is very forward-thinking and very involved, and I just do not see the match between what you are…”

“I welcome the Secretary of State’s approach to the Bill, and how he has worked across all devolved Administrations. May I seek his assurance that medical students who reside in Northern Ireland, who identify as Irish and who study in an Irish institution in the Republic of Ireland will not be excluded from coming back …”

“As I said earlier, I will be supporting the Bill. I thank the Secretary of State and the Minister for their engagement with the devolved institutions on the Bill’s intentions, and on expediting its progress. Its implications for Northern Ireland, and for the medical workforce spanning the islands, are crucial. As has b…”

“The Secretary of State talks about a patchwork quilt and a postcode lottery. Operation Restore supports military veterans with their physical and mental health, but Northern Ireland-resident veterans do not have the same access in devolved institutions—the likes of the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt orthopaedic hospital. …”

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“The Police Service of Northern Ireland is currently excluded from the counter-terrorism policing grant of about £1 billion a year, which is accessible to GB forces. Now that counter-terrorism is being looked after by the National Police Service, will the Police Service of Northern Ireland be able to access some of that…”

“Can I ask the House to pay tribute to and acknowledge the contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon)? [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear.”] That emotion, that story and that heartfelt contribution to today’s debate are replicated across many houses across Northern Ireland, and indeed across this Uni…”

“Would the hon. Gentleman consider that there is a political reason for the Northern Ireland Office to bring this measure forward: to placate the Irish Government and their timeline rather than the timeline of this place?”

“Q7. Challenging economic inactivity and supporting the vulnerable across the country is something that we all want, so would the Prime Minister be surprised to learn that, in Northern Ireland, around 11,000 people previously supported by UK shared prosperity funding will see those programmes cut dramatically, compounde…”

“A final point: when you extrapolate that to the recruitment of the Chief Constable, is there a challenge, regarding who is playing at that level, in selecting the appropriate person for that job? This is not critical of anybody in front of me; I suppose it is just the lack of home-grown Chief Constables from Northern I…”

“That is what I meant about no criticism.”

“In regard to some of the recommendations and commentary, the phrasing was that “the board has an excessive workload”, and that “this level of intensity is often at the expense of sustained follow-up, strategic focus and direction”. The commentary was that they were getting more into the operational, rather than the str…”

“Thanks, gentlemen, for coming along. Sir Hugh, in an earlier answer you said that the Policing Board was a model of accountability, but I think what it was structured to be and what it could be are very different from what we see in practice today. Paul Sweeney and John Topping completed an independent review of the op…”

“Jon, as the current Chief Constable, where is your concern regarding the piece of work that has been done, and the recommendations that, as Sir Iain said, are sitting there with no ownership or accountability once the final piece of work is done?”

“At question time last week, the Prime Minister seemed to intimate that the Government were bringing forward amendments to the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill. Within hours of him saying that, the Irish Government’s Minister for Foreign Affairs said that any “significant changes” must have the “full agreement of both Gov…”

“Thank you. Iain, with regard to the 10 recommendations that were in the interim report, where are they sitting at the minute, and where do you see the urgency in moving them forward? Kenova was commissioned by the Chief Constable of the PSNI, so at times I have a concern that maybe the Cabinet Office and Government, be…”

“On the back of the answer you gave to Gavin about interviewing Scappaticci, the report says that “it has not been possible to deal with the full facts surrounding the agent Stakeknife and the late Frederick Scappaticci in as full detail as hoped.” Is that because of NCND, or is there something else there?”

“Does the hon. Lady acknowledge that much of the work that was achieved in the Belfast agreement was undermined in St Andrews in 2007, when there was a change to how the First and Deputy First Ministers were elected? Rather than being a co-post, it became a divided office.”

“The Minister knows that I have challenged the Secretary of State about the transformation fund that was set up when the Executive came back two years ago. Does he agree that it is lamentable that that money is still not completely spent and not completely allocated? A committee has been formed to assess the best projec…”