Part of Northern Ireland Assembly (Elections) (Amendment) Order 2010 – in the House of Lords at 5:00 pm on 24 November 2010.
Northern Ireland has seen the arrival of thousands upon thousands of Europeans. People from one country go to one town and people from another country go to another-it is not spread evenly across Northern Ireland. For example, you get lots of Portuguese in Dungannon, while in Armagh there are lots of Poles. We need to be careful which language we select in which area. We just cannot have it generally across the whole of Northern Ireland.