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  1. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    I thank the Member for his remarks. The key question is this: what would be our strongest negotiating hand with the European Union and the British Government? Would it not be much stronger if we all rejected it and said, "This will —"

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  5. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    I know that he knows the inside of 10 Downing Street a lot better than most of us, given the fact that he worked there for a Tory Prime Minister. If the Member has always had the best interests of Northern Ireland in mind, does he regret passing a motion that called for the rigorous implementation of the original…

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  7. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    Does the Member accept that the protocol and the framework are the result of his and other Members' attempts to thwart democracy and not to honour the referendum, rather than of Brexit? Brexit has been achieved in other parts of the United Kingdom but has not been delivered here, largely because of the lobbying of…

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  9. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    The protocol came into existence, in a sense, in October 2019. October 2019 feels like a lifetime ago, although, in fairness, everything that happened before Jonny Buckley's speech feels like a lifetime ago. Should Mr Buckley ever, for whatever reason, decide to leave politics — he is very young, and I hope that he…

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  13. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    I thank the Member for giving way. Has the Member read sections 5(d)(i) and (ii) of strand one of the Good Friday Agreement, where it says that cross-community voting can be either what we have now or a weighted majority? It is not against any laws or rules that we have the opportunity to move to weighted majority…

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  16. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    I thank the Member for giving way. I tried to come in on this point earlier when the one-man pantomime was going on. The CEO of Invest NI did not say those words. What he said to our Committee was that, up to this point, no businesses had invested on that basis, but he expected —

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  18. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    The Member is right to say that the IFA and lots of other heavy agriculture producers, including beef producers, are very concerned about the Mercosur deal. I am not a fan of it myself, but is it not the case that the UK Government — certainly the previous UK Government — went hell for leather when it came to agreeing…

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  20. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    I thank the Members who have contributed to the debate so far. In some ways, it has been educational, but, in other ways, it has not been. I will speak on the democratic consent mechanism and our party's opposition to the retention of articles 5 to 10 inclusive of the Windsor framework. I will talk about politics and…

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  23. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    • Mrs Naomi Long Alliance
    • Private Members' Business
    • As a minister

    After listening to Mr Buckley, you would almost think that the DUP had lost the Brexit referendum. You won, guys. Cheer up. I must be the only person who was bothered before by the phrase "Not available for sale in Northern Ireland" when I was ordering things online. It used to happen regularly before Brexit. It was…

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  24. Debate contribution: Democratic Consent Resolution

    I am aware that the Member is now possibly filibustering and just reading out stuff that is in front of him in order to eat up time, but he may not be aware that some of the regulations that he just mentioned are critical to the functioning of the single electricity market. That is how electricity flows. That is why…

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