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Stevens Inquiry (14 May 2003)

Mr David Trimble: ...congratulate those in the Ministry of Defence on being virtually the only people who can spell "Steak-knife" correctly? That in itself is significant, because it reminds us that journalists tend to hunt in packs. In the media, as in many other aspects of life, real independent thinking is not often evident. I start with some basic principles. I congratulate the hon. Member for Hull, North...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Programme for Government -  Annual Report (1 Jul 2002)

Rt Hon David Trimble: ...targets that have been missed and provide the opportunity for dealing with them. We will follow up those matters; to some extent, the report is doing that. I am talking from memory rather than hunting through the report, but Planning Service had a target to clear up the backlog of planning applications, and that has not been achieved. For a variety of reasons, including a significant...

Orders of the Day — Police and Magistrates' Courts Bill [Lords] (26 Apr 1994)

Mr David Trimble: ...English model is moving towards us. We used to have a position rather similar to the one that obtained in London, where there was no police authority. That situation was criticised heavily by the Hunt report in 1969, and changed by the ensuing Northern Ireland legislation. My colleagues and I support the existence of a tripartite system of the chief constable, the police authority and...

Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill (19 Nov 1990)

Mr David Trimble: ...(Rev. Ian Paisley) said. Articles 2 and 3 of the Irish constitution provide Irish republican terrorism with a moral mandate, or—as a friend of mine put it the other day—they are a "hunting licence" issued by the Irish Free State. We know what the targets of the hunting licence are. I have some difficulty with the use of the word "emergency" in the title of the Bill. It has...