Results 1-20 of 57 for terrorism speaker:David Burnside

Northern Ireland Assembly: Executive Committee Business: Consideration Stage (6 May 2008)

David Burnside: ...that the Bill has now been brought to the Assembly for its Consideration Stage, and I hope that all Members are of the same opinion. The people of Northern Ireland suffered 40 years of the cruel terrorism that created thousands of innocent victims. It is therefore right and necessary that we address the needs of those innocent people who were physically and mentally scarred. The commission...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Eames/Bradley Consultative Group  on the Past (10 Mar 2008)

David Burnside: ...Eames/Bradley Consultative Group on the Past. Dealing with the past is one of the most difficult problems that any society has to tackle, particularly following the conflict, death, violence and terrorism that existed in this Province for around 35 years. I will qualify my remarks — and I have discussed this widely with my colleagues in the Ulster Unionist group – in asking the...

Northern Ireland Assembly: office of the first minister and deputy first minister: Commissioner for Victims and Survivors (3 Mar 2008)

David Burnside: ...defined as victims or relatives, or receive taxpayers’ money, and that the concentration of taxpayers’ money that might be devoted to that purpose, will be for the innocent victims of terrorism and members of the security forces and their families?

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Reclassification of the Terrorist Campaign (18 Feb 2008)

David Burnside: ...forces during the Troubles to fight the terrorists who wanted to glamourise themselves by calling the Troubles a war. It was an insurrection, which I hope is now over. Sinn Féin has not moved fully from terrorism and criminality to democracy, but it is going in the right direction. Do not go back to where we were. I support the motion. What happened was not a war; it was an...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Private Armies (4 Feb 2008)

David Burnside: ...did not give information? Who intimidated the family? It was the movement — the republican movement. It sticks together. The Sinn Féin leadership should look at concluding the process of moving from terrorism, via terrorism and politics, to 100% politics. The leadership should end that process completely. Moreover, the loyalist paramilitaries should get off the loyalist...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Oral Answers to Questions: National Stadium (11 Jun 2007)

David Burnside: ...a short answer. That is excellent. The Minister will have learned by now that the location of the Maze stadium is contentious, not least because of the proposal by some to have a commemoration of terrorism and criminality enshrined in the stadium. Does the Minister agree that, with the different views from the GAA and the football associations, soccer and rugby union, there is a need for a...

Northern Ireland Assembly: Secretary of State Motion: Spending Review and Priorities (7 Jul 2006)

David Burnside: Before the Member continues discussing education as the second priority, will he agree that an allocation of money to the victims of terrorism has been left out of the overall funding spend? That runs across different Departments. Does he agree with other Members and with me that priority should be given to the victims of violence? They are often forgotten and pushed from one Department to...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Compensation Payments (4 Apr 2005)

David Burnside: ...c) RUC and full-time and part-time reserve, (d) the Northern Ireland Prison Service, (e) the Northern Ireland fire service and (f) the ambulance service who have been killed or injured by acts of terrorism.

Support For Members Who Have Chosen Not To Take Their Seats (10 Mar 2005)

David Burnside: ...and people that the sanction against the IRA is taking away their allowances in the Palace of Westminster, what reaction does he think he will get, in the context of the fight against international terrorism?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Engagements (23 Feb 2005)

David Burnside: The Prime Minister has shown great leadership in his fight against international terrorism, and he has based that on a belief in freedom and democracy and an opposition to tyranny. In our back yard in Northern Ireland, we have republican criminals who are unfit to join the Executive Government at Stormont. Will he persuade his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Ceasefire (Police Numbers) (7 Feb 2005)

David Burnside: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the number of police officers that would be required in the Province if there were to be (a) a full-scale return to terrorism by republican and so-called loyalist terrorist organisations, (b) general observance of a ceasefire by republican and so-called loyalist terrorists but widespread criminality and (c) a...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

David Burnside: ...is a great advantage. The demise of Yasser Arafat is good for the future of the Palestinian people and will contribute to a more united, stable leadership that does not have the long-term legacy of terrorism or the freedom fighter image—whatever one's position and whatever one thinks—of Yasser Arafat. We all have our interpretations of the international links with Arafat in the...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

David Burnside: There should be no appeasement, domestically or internationally, in the fight against terrorism. The double standards that are sometimes expressed in the House, especially from the Government Front Bench, must end. If we are to win the fight against domestic and international terrorism, there is only one standard, one criterion, one end objective, and that is the defeat of terrorism, so I...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

David Burnside: ...point; I agree with him completely. I should like to move on from the middle east and the Irish peace process to the second main subject of today's debate: defence. The international fight against terrorism will be won only when we have strong domestic defence—which the Americans call "homeland security"—and the co-ordination and strength internationally to defeat terrorism...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

David Burnside: ...trafficking of drugs. Those representatives included the Sinn Fein representative in Havana, Cuba, who then went to Columbia with IRA representatives, who were part of the international network of terrorism that I was referring to. So the connection is clear.

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

David Burnside: ...in its relationship with FARC, the anti-American, drug-financed terrorist organisation in Colombia. I think I have made the connection very clearly. The domestic and the international fight against terrorism can be achieved only if we have a stronger, better, more efficient and, in my opinion, bigger Regular Army, Navy and Air Force, so some planned projections from Her Majesty's...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

David Burnside: .... There is nothing that I and the vast majority of people want in Northern Ireland more than normalisation. We want our garrison strength, police on the streets, and the total and absolute end of terrorism. We want our Territorial Army regiments travelling throughout Ulster to train for the future role of the TA. We do not want Regular Army back-up for our police service or the civil power...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (24 Nov 2004)

David Burnside: We all hope that the normalisation of security in Northern Ireland will allow the Regular Army to be used with the other armed forces in the international fight against terrorism, thus relieving the pressure on the manpower of the Army. That manpower relief will be helped if the Secretary of State will give a commitment to retain our three home battalions of the Royal Irish Regiment for home...

Business of the House (4 Nov 2004)

David Burnside: ...for the Metropolitan police, because if there is to be legislative change it should apply to all police forces and all soldiers serving in the whole of the United Kingdom in the fight against terrorism, rather than being the preserve of the Metropolitan police.

Written Answers — Northern Ireland: Public Inquiries (12 Jul 2004)

David Burnside: ...into the murders of members of (a) the army, both regular and Ulster Defence Regiment and Royal Irish Regiment part-time, (b) the Royal Ulster Constabulary and its Reserve and (c) victims of terrorism since 1969.