A selection of Mr Seamus Mallon's votes

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• Has never voted on removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords
• Voted against university tuition fees Show votes 0 votes for, 1 vote against, 10 absences, between 1997–2004

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Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — Inquiries Bill [Lords] 15 Mar 2005

  I thank the Minister for giving way to me, and for his kind words. Will he try to explain why—after 17 years and a police investigation by Sir John Stevens, which was very conclusive indeed—there is still no conclusion in respect of the Finucane incident? How, after the passage of 17 years, can the Minister's statement be substantiated?

• Orders of the Day — Inquiries Bill [Lords] 15 Mar 2005

  One of the difficulties with the Saville inquiry was that it had to undo the faulty inquiry chaired by Lord Widgery. There was a danger in having reached a faulty conclusion through a faulty inquiry—the infamous Widgery inquiry—so the Saville inquiry's first business was to undo that. Secondly, there was an inordinate number of requests from the Ministry of Defence for judicial review, at...

• Orders of the Day — Inquiries Bill [Lords] 15 Mar 2005

  May I say first that the perception of public inquiries among people in the north of Ireland, where I come from, is somewhat different from the general view of public inquiries carried out in England or Scotland or Wales? That is the case owing to the very nature of events and circumstances there, but the essence of the need does not change with circumstances or timing. On the very day that I...

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Profile

Former Social Democratic and Labour Party MP for Newry and Armagh, Former Social Democratic and Labour Party MLA for Newry and Armagh

Entered the House of Commons on 23 January 1986 — unknown

Left the House of Commons on 11 April 2005 — did not stand for re-election

Entered the Assembly on 25 June 1998 — General election

Left the Assembly on 28 April 2003 — General election

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Expenses

• Expenses from 2004 to 2009

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Jim Nicholson

Future MPs in this constituency

• Conor Murphy
• Mickey Brady

Public bill committees (Sittings attended)

• Police (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (4 out of 9)
• Justice (Northern Ireland) Bill Committee (12 out of 12)

Numerology

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• Responsiveness to messages sent via WriteToThem.com in 2005: Too little data for valid analysis.
• Has voted in 3.77% of votes in this Parliament with this affiliation — well below average amongst MPs. (From Public Whip)