Speeches by McDonagh.

“Its potential is to alter everything in a very undemocratic manner. In this very Chamber, Nye Bevan told us that the NHS would “lift the shadow from millions of homes...keep very many people alive who might otherwise be dead...relieve suffering...produce higher standards for the medical profession” and “be a great cont…”

“I rise to speak to amendment 12, which stands in my name. I want to be clear that a decision on amendment 12 would not be a vote for or against assisted dying. The amendment is about preventing any Government of any political persuasion from rewriting the very purpose of the NHS, using a small group of MPs in a Committ…”

“That is the whole purpose of my amendment and my speech. Section 1 of the 2006 Act is the legal foundation on which every NHS duty rests, guaranteeing that our NHS will serve everyone, always. The section, which expresses the promise of “a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement…in the physical and …”

“The power to alter the intentions, as mentioned by my hon. Friend, was not in the Bill we voted for in November. That is why I have tabled my amendment: to prevent anyone from tampering with the NHS as founded by our forefathers. Let us be clear about what clause 38 would allow. It would allow a Minister, through deleg…”

“I am afraid that I will now impose a four-minute limit on speeches. I apologise to people for coughing, and will endeavour not to. Please do not be too distracted by me.”

“I do not think that I need to remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate. As everyone can see, a large number of people would like to speak, so rather than impose a rigid timescale, I will be grateful if you could all be kind to one another and speak for approximately four minutes.”

“Just to warn the Front Benchers, I am going to reduce your time to nine minutes in order to keep the time limit for Back Benchers at four minutes.”

“Every cautious organisation is going to come in under the limit, isn’t it? If you increased it by 5%, even if people only made it to 15% or 16%, there would still be lots of people who would get a benefit from it.”

“Particular firms?”

“As a member of the Prudential Regulatory Committee, would you be sympathetic to a more liberal regime for building systems in their loan-to-income borrowing? At the moment, they are restricted; they can give only 15% of mortgages over 4.5 times income. If they were allowed to go up to 20%, they could help another 15,00…”

“That is all really laudable, but there is this group of people with a vested interest who think they are on a panel.”

“Who paid for the report?”

“Is the £20 million diagnostic report on car finance that the FCA commissioned ever going to be published?”

“It is absolutely laudable but it does not really answer my question.”

“Obviously, prosecution is one side of it, but could people be looking to finfluencers because of the lack of good advice out there? Given the restrictions about financial advisers and people with less than half a million not wanting to pay £1,500 for a financial advice session, should building societies be given more p…”

“Do they lead a rich fantasy life?”

“Did they make it up?”

“The National Franchised Dealers Association certainly think that they are on a group. Are they wrong?”

“Does the panel exist?”

“Following an update on car finance, which the FCA published on 5 June, the National Franchised Dealers Association—a trade group representing car dealers—said on their website that they were part of the consumer redress scheme design panel. I could not find any other information about it, including who is on it, whethe…”