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Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 ( 9 Jan 2007)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I rise briefly to support what the noble and most reverend Lord, Lord Eames, said. This is not about attitudes; this is about the process, and the process we are going through tonight is even more unique than normal. What is the effect of an order in Northern Ireland, followed by a Bill for the remainder of the United Kingdom? Normally orders in Northern Ireland are either unique to...

Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 ( 9 Jan 2007)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I would be delighted for the noble Lord to stay on the basis of both his colour and his sexual orientation. There is absolutely no question about it. Please do come and stay and I will charge you appropriately. It will be precisely the same as for everybody else, I assure you. However, this is not about that. This is about having people among your family. That is the important...

Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Bill (22 Nov 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: Perhaps either I did not hear clearly or I do not fully understand. The noble Baroness, Lady Harris, and I were saying that, should the Assembly go ahead in the mean time—and it will be well ahead of the reform of the RPA, which will of course mean a total reorganisation of areas, DPP areas and so on, which we accept—the Policing Board will be under an obligation to reform the DPPs as...

Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Bill (22 Nov 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: I support the amendments of the noble Baroness, Lady Harris. It is worth while looking at the numbers and the background of the DPPs, especially the independents. I was on the committee of the Policing Board. I would not say that we worked it out, but we were in charge of appointing DPPs. The make-up of the independents was decided after the numbers of party political representatives...

Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Bill (22 Nov 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: With all due respect, and the Minister may have something that says entirely different, at any time the Policing Board only operated within the directions of the Government and within the legislation that was laid down. It was never within our power, as far as I am concerned, to alter the formation or the constitution. We chose the members, and we were directed entirely to produce as close a...

Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Bill (22 Nov 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I had not intended to speak, but I wish to mention two matters. First, as an ex-member of the Policing Board, I reiterate that Sinn Fein's support for policing and law and order must not be a fudge and must be demonstrated in practical terms. Words are not good enough. People in Northern Ireland ask how, within this timetable, any reasonable person can be persuaded of Sinn Fein's...

Rates (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 ( 7 Nov 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, we have heard something about the figures and I am delighted to hear that the noble Baroness's rates have gone down. But mine have gone up four times—of course I declare an interest—and they are now about five times as big as the Prime Minister's. This is penalising some people. Of course I am one of them, but I am not the only one; I met someone at the airport today who has...

Armed Forces (29 Jun 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I, too, thank my noble and gallant friend Lord Inge for initiating this debate. I feel rather nervous because I am taking quite a narrow view of a particular subject; the Minister will be aware of this because I wrote to him earlier about it. I should declare my interests. I am, first, a member of the National Employers Advisory Board for the Reserves of the Armed Forces. Secondly,...

Intelligence and Security Services (14 Jun 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hamilton, for introducing this topic at such an opportune time. It gives us a chance to discuss the changing security environment and how the intelligence and security services can best adapt to it. I wish to look at issues that concern us inside our land borders. I accept that they may be influenced or controlled by various people from the outside....

Northern Ireland Bill ( 2 May 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I will be relatively brief since most of what I was going to say has already been said. Like everyone else, I welcome the Bill. We really want to see an Assembly back in Northern Ireland. I congratulate the Government on their efforts at achieving that during the past few years and on bringing this Bill forward. There has been great progress, but this Bill's success in...

Armed Forces: Helicopters ( 2 May 2006)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, as a member of the National Employer Advisory Board, I visited reservists in Basra about five weeks ago. I was surprised by what appeared to be a very low number of helicopters, especially in light of the fact that we had 72 helicopters at the height of the troubles in Northern Ireland. How many helicopters are in Iraq? Recent newspaper articles suggested that helicopters were lying...

Terrorism Bill (13 Dec 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: First, I apologise for not being here at the beginning of this; I did not quite fall asleep, but I did not realise that it was on. I will be very short. It seems to be black or white—either we have total disclosure or we have non-disclosure. I cannot believe that either of those is in practical terms what we need to have on the ground. The world is not like that. Why is it that certain...

Terrorism Bill (13 Dec 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: As someone who comes from Northern Ireland I feel I ought to say something about this matter in relation to terrorism. The noble Lord, Lord Imbert, referred to a hypothetical situation. However, the situation in Northern Ireland is not hypothetical. Where the Government are going wrong is in not doing everything else in their power to help our police and anti-terrorist forces do what they...

Terrorism Bill (21 Nov 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, it is a sad reflection that after 30 years of terrorism in Northern Ireland we are still introducing terrorism Bills and that we may have more Bills of this nature in the near future. I declare an interest. I am a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. We have learnt in Northern Ireland that legislation alone cannot beat terrorism. There are two other vital factors: first,...

Iraq (10 Oct 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, can the Minister comment a little further on the Reserve Forces and the amount of support being given? He has already told us about the support that will be given to the 7th Armoured Brigade. However, it is vitally important that in the future—in the medium term and further on—roulement units go at full strength. We know that they are under strength in this country as they stand...

Prevention of Terrorism Bill ( 8 Mar 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I hesitate to suggest that one of the reasons for the need for a sunset clause has not yet been mentioned. The fight against terrorism is not just a fight against the bombers: it is also a fight for the hearts and minds of the community from which they come. If one accepts that the present statistics in the policing world are that members of that community are stopped more often on...

Prevention of Terrorism Bill ( 1 Mar 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I hesitate to speak without experience of the judiciary or another such profession. However, I have lived in Northern Ireland for a long time and we have had our own type of terrorism, so I shall be slightly more practical. I recognise the seriousness of the threat, as everyone else does, but I fear that the Bill in its present form is a panic reaction and double jumping to an...

Northern Ireland (22 Feb 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I wish to put a few questions to the Minister. First, accepting that the Government of this country have access to exactly the same information and evidence as that of the Republic, can the Minister confirm that our Government agree with the public statement of the Irish Minister of Justice that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness were members of the Provisional IRA ruling army...

Northern Ireland (11 Jan 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I must declare an interest, not in the robbery, but as a member of the policing board in Northern Ireland. In saying that, I should like to defend the police to a certain extent against some of the barracking they have had. It is amazing that, knowing how forensically aware the terrorists are and how clever and thorough they are at covering their tracks, the chief constable has been...

Northern Ireland (11 Jan 2005)

Viscount Brookeborough: My Lords, I was referring to prior to the incident, not the amount of intelligence received after £26 million had gone. I was talking about the six months in the year prior to it.


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