Results 1-15 of 15 for hunting speaker:Ian Paisley

Bill Presented: Business of the House (3 Apr 2001)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...was made yesterday that we would receive a draft copy, because most of the Bill has to do with Northern Ireland. That promise was not kept: my party did not get a copy until this morning, after hunting round the various Whips' offices and making phone calls. We did not get our copy until just before the House sat this afternoon. Northern Ireland parties are implicated in the legislation...

Opposition Day: Terrorist Mutilations (Northern Ireland) (27 Jan 1999)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...attacks have shown how Governments react to such atrocities. First there is a general outcry, in which everyone joins, and solemn pledges are made by political leaders that the perpetrators will be hunted down ruthlessly. In the case of Omagh, our Prime Minister and Mr. Ahern responded with so-called draconian legislation, even suggesting that suspected bombers would be gaoled—on the...

Orders of the Day — Police Bill [Lords]: Prevention of Terrorism (Northern Ireland) (19 Mar 1997)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...brought to the courts on serious charges, resulting from arrests in west Belfast last week; I welcome that. I also welcome the fact that in certain areas the IRA has been put under pressure and hunted down. However, I believe that its members must be targeted for round-the-clock surveillance and they must be caught and put behind bars for a long time. These people will not be reformed....

Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland: Peace Process (27 Feb 1997)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...of members of the Government he can establish confidence? When Stephen Restorick was brutally murdered, the Prime Minister issued a strong statement that the person or persons who did it would be hunted and would be brought to justice. In the other place, Baroness Denton informed us that people would no doubt have strange feelings that the House should be contemplating the...

Orders of the Day — Army Bill (13 Feb 1992)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...forces. They need the strength of their community behind them. But that is not what they have been getting, and the House should take note of that. History is repeating itself. We remember the Hunt report. Lord Hunt decided that we in Northern Ireland were a crowd of bitter bigots and that there were no bigger bigots than the members of the police force. Hunt asked why a police...

Orders of the Day — Indecent Displays (Control) Bill (7 Dec 1979)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...sad situation developing in Northern Ireland, and it comes about because of the pressure that is already on the police force of our country. It seems that Northern Ireland has become the happy hunting ground for people who want to dump this type of literature. We know that the police have difficulties under the present laws in handling the public display of this material. A note of...

Northern Ireland (Security) (6 Mar 1978)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: .... Will they go into the areas that I have described? Is the low profile to be continued or will there be a declaration of war, a declaration that the people concerned will be put down, that they will be hunted down and dealt with? This House seems to be very lenient with the killers. I have heard it said over and over again that it would not do to have martyrs. Two IRA men died on hunger...

Orders of the Day — Protection of Children Bill (10 Feb 1978)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...National Party in hoping that it will also be extended to Scotland. I would not like to think that the Bill could pass this House and result in Northern Ireland and Scotland becoming the happy hunting ground of those who have been outlawed in the rest of the United Kingdom.

Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) (11 Dec 1975)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...members defended Ulster". We in Ulster know what is happening. We live with this situation. This House, by its own vote, decided that the RUC should no longer be an armed police force. Sir John Hunt has been quoted tonight. When we were about to be plunged into a savage IRA onslaught, the Ulster defences were taken from us. The Ulster Special Constabulary was disbanded and was left as the...

Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Prosecution of Offences) (8 May 1972)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ..., which is well known as a forthright and independent body, following an investigation the Society made into the dealings of the police: The President and Secretary were invited to meet Lord Hunt and his Committee. Before doing so they canvassed the views of members frequently practising in the High Court, County Courts and Magistrates' Courts regarding their views on the impartiality or...

Northern Ireland (20 Mar 1972)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...and liquidate it. The forces of the Crown are the people to deal with subversives, and the forces of the Crown only. It is to be regretted that hon. Members of this House voted on the disastrous Hunt proposals, and that took away the solid bulwarks which had stood against subversion for 48 years, but I shall not go into that in detail now. People in Northern Ireland need to be given some...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Deparment: Northern Ireland (28 Oct 1971)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...Secretary intend to take for the protection of members of the R.U.C. and their wives and families and their police stations? Will he now, at this late juncture, reverse the foolish policies of the Hunt proposals and allow the R.U.C. to be equipped with such fire power as to be able to resist those who would murder them? Would he also make provision for the arming of the police reserve?

Prayers: Northern Ireland (23 Sep 1971)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ... into Southern Ireland, not being cogniscant of the location of the border of Northern Ireland. There must be something to take the place of these forces which the House of Commons, by accepting the Hunt Report, disbanded. The Home Secretary says that we are working strictly within the Hunt proposals. I remind the House of those proposals. They were that the automatic weapons and...

Prayers: Northern Ireland (23 Sep 1971)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: The Home Secretary said yesterday that the Government were working completely within the terms of the Hunt Report. Is the Minister now saying that they are going outside the Hunt Report? If the police are to be armed, they should be armed, not in a clandestine manner, but openly and publicly.

Northern Ireland (6 Apr 1971)

Reverend Dr Ian Paisley: ...that 189 cars were burned recently in these areas. These are some of the things that cause concern to Ulster people. The hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt) said that I was opposed to the Hunt proposals. He knows perfectly well that I am opposed to using the Hunt Report in order to refuse to give the Royal Ulster Constabulary the fire power necessary to retaliate when attacked by...