Security in Northern Ireland

Part of Opposition Day — [10th Allotted Day] – in the House of Commons at 12:44 pm on 21 November 2012.

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Photo of Bob Stewart Bob Stewart Conservative, Beckenham 12:44, 21 November 2012

I should like to pay tribute to the ongoing courage and steadfastness of the people of Northern Ireland, especially the officials there. We do not quite understand how the right hon. and hon. Gentlemen and Ladies who represent constituencies in Northern Ireland live with a certain threat. They have to go outside their house and check their car, for example, and they can never be certain what is going to happen. That tension is there in their lives all the time. I hope that when they come over here, that tension lessens, but the people of Northern Ireland never get rid of it. This House must always understand that the tension remains: we want it to go, but the only way of achieving that is by continuing developments towards peace.