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I thank the Member for giving way, and I am sorry to interrupt his, so far, very dramatic performance. It is wonderful to hear the Member talk about dual market access. Does he acknowledge that one of the greatest barriers to that has been the fact that these institutions have been down so much and that we do not have…
I thank the Member for giving way. The Member for North Antrim was beating his chest and saying that trade with the South is up, but does he not recognise that that is because of displacement as a result of the protocol from his party, the SDLP and the Alliance Party? There has been a displacement of trade because of…
The Member said that he is a proud Northern Irish man, but his concerns seem to be about businesses in GB. How does he react to businesses in the North when we look at the export statistics published by HMRC that show that Scotland was down 13%, England was down 4·5% and Wales was down 9% from June 2023 to June 2024,…
For fear of your becoming a Little Englander, have you looked to see the damage that Brexit has done to supermarket shelves in England, Scotland and Wales?
I thank the Member for giving way. He made a powerful point about the voice of young people being heard: should that also apply to people being able to vote at 16?
I thank the Member for giving way again. He pointed to the position of Sinn Féin. He should recall that its position on the EU, in all of its past and for all of its history, was to be anti-EU, right up until the point of the referendum campaign.
OK. I will have plenty of time later on to expound on the points in this wonderful paper. You mentioned railing against laws made in our sovereign Parliament. This is a law made in that — "our", as you want to call it — sovereign Parliament. The protocol exists and applies in law in Northern Ireland only because the…
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. The start of our Standing Orders clearly outlines that every Member in the House is entitled to have a vote, and today every Member in the House is having a vote. Mr Buckley has suggested that unionists and nationalists are not having a vote today. I believe that that is incorrect.…
No, I fundamentally do not agree, because I do not believe that parallel consent is the only way to achieve cross-community consent. It can be done by weighted majority voting, and, indeed, that is allowed for under the agreement. Furthermore, Alliance has always been clear that we saw that agreement as a foundation…
Thank you, Mr Buckley. I am not the leader of the Alliance Party. She is sitting in front of us. I am delighted that the Member talked about inclusiveness. I am delighted that, for once, my vote will count the same as those of nationalists and unionists in this place.