Results 1-20 of 53 for terrorism speaker:David Wilshire

Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance) (8 Feb 2006)

David Wilshire: ...cannot possibly become the Government until such time as they disarm. Whenever I join in debates about Northern Ireland and Sinn Fein-IRA, I am deeply conscious of the hurt caused to the victims of terrorism, not only by these debates but by the matters that give rise to them. I am at a loss to understand why Governments in this country consider it acceptable to cause hurt to victims of...

Opposition Parties (Financial Assistance) (8 Feb 2006)

David Wilshire: ...vote against it again. Now, however, we are being asked to do something else: to approve what I suspect will come to be known as Hoon money. This new allowance plumbs new depths of appeasement of terror. I never believed when I came to the House 18 years ago that I would live to see the day when the House would be asked to put psychopathic murderers on its payroll.

Public Bill Committee: Railways Bill: Schedule 3 - Transfer of safety functions (14 Dec 2004)

Mr David Wilshire: ...which it may be sensible to say that a report should be published within a certain amount of time unless something was about to happen, and I am prepared to discuss with the hon. Gentleman whether terrorism requires some references as well, but I am not sure whether that should be the case for ever, because it could well be that the potential terrorist threat that gave rise to a report...

Public Bill Committee: European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill: Clause 6 - Personation: arrestable offence (4 Nov 2003)

Mr David Wilshire: ...that. There are two ways of considering whether a month is suitable. For the overwhelming majority of people, being convicted and sent to prison for an hour or a day is enough to strike horror and terror into them. There are those who could not care less about a month in prison, because it would amount to only two weeks after remission. If one were to use prison as a deterrent and a...

Public Bill Committee: European Parliamentary and Local Elections (Pilots) Bill: Clause 2 - Pilot order (30 Oct 2003)

Mr David Wilshire: ...to have voting on more than one day. Those reasons relate to access to villages, transport and the difficulties of moving around in countries that are physically or politically dangerous, or where terrorism is a worry. However, in my experience, the reasons given elsewhere in the world for allowing voting on more than one day do not apply here. Are we being told that we need to have...

Female Genital Mutilation Bill: Clause 3 — Offence of Assisting a Non-UK Person to Mutilate Overseas a Girl's Genitalia (11 Jul 2003)

Mr David Wilshire: We have sought to take powers to treat certain things done outside this country—for example, acts of terrorism or murder—as prosecutable here. I hope that we will never get to a situation where we say, "We will prosecute you for murder if you carry it out abroad, provided it is a UK citizen whom you murder." I would have thought that where the victim is from was not as important...

Public Bill Committee: Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]: New clause 6 - Membership of district policing partnerships (11 Mar 2003)

Mr David Wilshire: ...to refer to having links now and in the future, not to look back to the past. I hope that Hansard will confirm that I said what I thought I said; that I can just about cope with apologists for terrorism from the past. If someone had links with terrorists, rather than was a terrorist, I would be in favour of drawing a line under that. On reflection, I accept that the wording ''is...

Public Bill Committee: Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]: New clause 6 - Membership of district policing partnerships (11 Mar 2003)

Mr David Wilshire: .... Let us say that that terrorist organisation is still armed, shooting people, setting fire to houses and chasing people out of Northern Ireland. If that is still going on, as it is, it is terrorism, and the people to whom I am referring are part and parcel of that terrorist organisation. That is how I see the situation, if that helps my hon. Friend the Member for Wycombe (Mr. Goodman)....

Public Bill Committee: Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]: New clause 6 - Membership of district policing partnerships (11 Mar 2003)

Mr David Wilshire: ...relinquish a few more arms and explosives. The policing partnerships are required to appoint armed terrorists, or apologists for armed terrorists, who show almost no inclination to cease their terrorism as a means to achieve what they want, irrespective of the wish of the majority. Under the 2000 Act, those people can—indeed, must—be appointed to an oversight role in relation...

Public Bill Committee: Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]: New clause 1 - Discrimination in appointments (11 Mar 2003)

Mr David Wilshire: ...to solve the problem of discrimination by discriminating proves that we have not learned much from all that we have done and said about Northern Ireland. If discrimination drove the Province into terrorism, why should it now drive it to peace and harmony? We seem simply to be replacing one angry and resentful community with another angry and resentful community. As far as I am concerned,...

Public Bill Committee: Police (Northern Ireland) Bill [Lords]: Clause 19 - Fixed-term appointments (11 Mar 2003)

Mr David Wilshire: ...norm for the Police Service of Northern Ireland. That would take us back to where we started. We have every reason to support the amendment proposed by the right hon. Member for Upper Bann. As for links to terrorism, one has to accept that rotten eggs exist everywhere in every police service. It is sensible to accept that all police services have their villains. I have no doubt that...

Orders of the Day — Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Bill: Clause 1 — Registration: Provision of signature and date of birth (15 Apr 2002)

Mr David Wilshire: ...IRA thought about the proposal, although he had a general sense that they were not much in favour of it when it was originally published. It is crucial that the House should know what the agents of terror think about our attempts to improve democracy in Northern Ireland. Not only are they prepared to ignore the wishes of their constituents in refusing to take their seats here, but if they...

Facilities of the House (18 Dec 2001)

Mr David Wilshire: ...need Semtex, save to undermine democracy as we know it? By demeaning democracy, the motion will not only let those armed terrorists—the four Members of Parliament who have never renounced terrorism or denounced violence—into the Palace of Westminster, but will make staff passes available to them. Sinn Fein-IRA have twice got bombs into this building without passes, so one can...

Points of Order (18 Dec 2001)

Mr David Wilshire: ...? Although I accept the need for moderate language in an emotional debate such as this afternoon's, is it still in order to describe someone who has not affirmed or taken the Oath as a supporter of terrorism or to refer to any other unpleasant facts that the evidence suggests?

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 171 - Provision of information by defendant (11 Dec 2001)

Mr David Wilshire: .... It is much more likely that a person who refuses to answer a question under those circumstances will be absolutely terrified of the implications of answering it. The history of violence in the terrorist and criminal fraternity in Northern Ireland is of a different order from that which applies in the rest of the country. I worry that the court would be invited to assume that a person...

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 163 - Assumptions to be made in case of criminal lifestyle (11 Dec 2001)

Mr David Wilshire: ...of requirements whereby account must be taken of that lifestyle. I referred earlier to the evidence in Northern Ireland whereby some activities are not criminal but amount to financial aid to terrorism. The Under-Secretary may wish to add special provisions concerning matters that do not arise from a criminal lifestyle or are not criminal activities. According to the taskforce in Northern...

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 163 - Assumptions to be made in case of criminal lifestyle (11 Dec 2001)

Mr David Wilshire: ...money, and the causes to which the donations are made are not necessarily prosecutable. One of the problems with Northern Ireland is that donations are made to organisations that run alongside terrorism and take the money slightly away from it. The donations are therefore not caught by the criminal law, although it is patently obvious that the purpose of the donation may be to support the...

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 163 - Assumptions to be made in case of criminal lifestyle (11 Dec 2001)

Mr David Wilshire: ...on the fringes. I am simply referring to the Under-Secretary's report. There is plenty of evidence of ''legitimate'' money going to ''legitimate'' organisations whose real motivation is to make terrorism easier. The Under-Secretary needs to ask himself whether existing legislation catches such organisations, because the report says that it does not.

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 158 - Making of order (11 Dec 2001)

Mr David Wilshire: The Minister said that he could not understand why it would be necessary to include terrorism, because existing criminal legislation and criminal definitions would be adequate. I draw his attention to an aspect of the threat assessment that I mentioned earlier relating to non-licensed and illegal gaming and jackpot machines. It states that in 1999–2000, Customs and Excise ''collected...

Public Bill Committee: Proceeds of Crime Bill: Clause 158 - Making of order (11 Dec 2001)

Mr David Wilshire: .... When I stayed in such hotels, I had been booked into them by the Irish Government, and had meetings with TDs—Members of the Dail—so I did not set out to aid and abet any sort of terrorism. I understand the hon. Gentleman's point, and my defence is that I only discovered all that afterwards; I hasten to add that I have not been back to any of those hotels.