Results 1-12 of 12 for terrorism speaker:David Simpson
- Northern Ireland Assembly: private members’ business: Consultative Group on the Past (2 Feb 2009)
David Simpson: ...that the families of some dead terrorists may have known nothing about their relative’s activities, but we should keep in mind one fact: in many cases in which terrorists died as a result of their terrorism, they were buried with full paramilitary trappings, and with the approval of their families. In those cases, those families gave their public approval and support to their...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Eames/Bradley Consultative Group on the Past (10 Mar 2008)
David Simpson: ...The Government gave the group an important job to do. In cases in which assistance can be given to those who are innocent of all crime or wrongdoing but who nonetheless were targeted for murder by terror organisations, such help ought to be given. However, there can be no doubt that several factors hindered the work of the Eames/Bradley consultative group. First is the despicable...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Tourism (19 Feb 2008)
David Simpson: ...target section of American society would be people from the Bible Belt who have much in common with Northern Ireland Christian historical heritage? We must guard against the danger of glorifying terrorism, as that would send out entirely the wrong message. Northern Ireland must be open for tourist business, but it should not be marketed to tourists as a freak show. For that reason, I...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Reclassification of the Terrorist Campaign (18 Feb 2008)
David Simpson: When the Eames/Bradley group briefed the media that it was considering recommending that decades of terrorism should be repackaged as a war, it was understandably met with outrage, because it is an outrageous suggestion. It was also met with shock, not only because of its shocking revisionism but because it appeared to come out of nowhere. However, in Northern Ireland, nothing of that...
- Policing (Northern Ireland) (21 Nov 2007)
David Simpson: ...a Renault car matching the description of the getaway vehicle. The brothers were questioned about that and offered no credible explanation. Both were arrested under section 14 of the prevention of terrorism Act, "on suspicion of being involved in terrorist activity". The two brothers were separated. One took the truck with a police escort to Gough barracks in Armagh, which we all know, and...
- Bill Presented: Northern Ireland (St. Andrews Agreement) (No. 2) Bill (27 Mar 2007)
David Simpson: ...way in which we can move forward is if there is trust on both sides. My hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson) has mentioned that many DUP Members have suffered at the hands of terrorism. My hon. Friend the Member for South Antrim(Dr. McCrea) has mentioned his personal circumstances, and I, too, have suffered at the hands of terrorism, which affected four members of my...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Private Members’ Business: Industrial Rating (6 Jun 2006)
David Simpson: ...said, they are prepared, at a stroke, to introduce rating for industrial premises, thus making it unviable for many of our businesses to operate in the Province. Having come through the dark years of a terror campaign that, in part, sought to wound fatally our entire economy, the Government now threaten us with a policy that could do more long-term and Province-wide damage to our economy...
- Northern Ireland Assembly: Secretary of State Motion: Economic Challenges and Proposed Working Group (16 May 2006)
David Simpson: ...an increasingly competitive and cut-throat global economy. My party is consistent in calling for any future economic package to be ploughed into enhancing our ailing infrastructure. Thirty years of terrorism have deprived our roads, water and sewerage systems of much needed funds. Business would benefit as much as the general population from a better infrastructure. Too many potential new...
- Northern Ireland Bill (26 Apr 2006)
David Simpson: We have talked about the dissidents, which is a lose word. Such information must not be passed on to benefit terrorism—Slab Murphy and the rest of them up in south Armagh—so we have a difficulty. I used the word "tantalising" earlier; the word that we need to emphasise is trust. That is a big factor in setting up the Northern Ireland Assembly. I sat in my own council meeting on...
- Competitiveness (Northern Ireland) (7 Mar 2006)
David Simpson: ...those with large premises. By implication, they employ the most people, or deal in commodities with tight margins. This state of affairs was brought about not by international competition or by internal terrorism in this instance, but by a stroke of a Government pen. Like Nicodemus of old, I ask, "How can these things be?" I would like to take a few moments to consider the landfill tax. In...
- Orders of the Day — Terrorism (Northern Ireland) Bill: Clause 2 — Repeal of Provisions of Part 7 (30 Nov 2005)
David Simpson: ...raised today by my hon. Friends. I think that I can safely say that no one would like to see normality in Northern Ireland more than I would. Four members of my family were murdered at the hands of terrorism. The first one who was murdered was a police officer—he was shot outside Coalisland barracks, and he was in the Royal hospital in Belfast and South Tyrone hospital for 22 years....
- Health and Education (24 May 2005)
David Simpson: ...the blue chappies in the middle?" That is a true story. Northern Ireland does not need any more of that inflicted on it. We currently have direct rule because of republicans and their failure to abandon terrorism and criminality. Democratic parties are held back and the entire Province is being punished because of their unwillingness to face reality. When I met the Prime Minister last...