John McCallister: ...was that we would be out of step with the rest of the UK, but he is happy to be out of step with the UK on other issues. I note that we are probably the only part of the UK that will not have equal marriage. We pride ourselves at the minute that we will do something slightly different on welfare reform — we are not going to break parity, but we will make changes. The argument for...
Mark Durkan: .... I wonder whether the Member can tell us why this part of the United Kingdom, as he puts it, should be fundamentally different from the other parts on other issues as well, one of which — equal marriage — was referred to earlier by a Member sitting behind me. There could be less obvious conflicts of interest from being a member of a legislature that has no jurisdiction over councils...