Mr Anthony Mulvey: Is the right hon. Member aware that a former Minister of Agriculture in Northern Ireland had to apologise to his Unionist audience because he had four Catholic officials on his staff?
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I do not propose to speak of the references made by the right hon. Member for Antrim, North (Sir H. O'Neill) to the hon. Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Bing). I am satisfied that the hon. Member for Hornchurch is treasured by the genuine Irish people of the North and the South, though no doubt he is not held in favour by those who adopt undemocratic methods in Northern Ireland. I noticed that the...
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I dispute that assertion, but I shall not go into it. In 1945, both the British and Belfast Parliaments had before them pieces of legislation determining who should vote in local elections. The British Act extended the franchise to everyone of 21 and over. When the similar Act went through the Belfast Parliament, there was introduced a barrier to such a franchise which deprived of the vote...
Mr Anthony Mulvey: Will the hon. and gallant Gentleman tell me during what period that happened? I have the official figures of 92 built since the war, and 32 or 33 given to Nationalists.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I can tell the hon. and gallant Gentleman that the total number of houses built since 1934 when the gerrymander party got into power was 148. But those houses were confined to the North Ward and to the South Ward.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I cannot accept the figures given by the hon. Member for Armagh (Mr. Harden). I am mindful of the fact that a former British Government in this House were responsible in 1920 for an Act of Parliament which enabled the Tories in Northern Ireland to perpetrate these injustices on the people of Northern Ireland. I am forced to ask the question whether the authors of that British Act visualised...
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I am reluctant to interrupt the noble Lord, but he said that everyone realises that bitter religious differences exist in Northern Ireland.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I do not think that any bitterness in that way exists in any part of the country, and I could not let that go without challenge.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I do not feel capable of going into the legal niceties that we have heard throughout the whole debate. Hon. Members may feel that if Mr. MacManaway was a legal Member of the House, he was the only Irishman ever to be disqualified from attendance in the House. When I heard the complaints in Unionist circles in Northern Ireland about the unjust treatment meted out to Mr. MacManaway in...
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I do not wish to depart in any way from the lines of procedure in this House when I say that if Mr. de Valera wished to take his seat in the Northern Ireland Parliament, he could not do so by reason of exclusion orders against him which prohibit him going to Northern Ireland at all. Today there is a democratic Government in this House, democratic in everything except in so far as Governmental...
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I hope I am not contravening any rule, but I am just reminding the Government here that, if democracy is not to be designated as a sham, they must take action to satisfy the aspirations of the whole Irish people in this respect.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: The hon. Member for South Belfast (Mr. Gage) says that this Clause has the support of everyone in Ulster. Is he aware that more than one-third of the people do not agree with this Clause at all, and desire to bring an end to partition in Ireland?
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I feel that the senior Member for Antrim (Sir H. O'Neill) did not make the position clear. He referred to the fact that the boundary commission arranged to bring in outside areas from the Twenty-six Counties. He is quite right in that, but it also provided for transferring areas from the Six Counties to the Twenty-six Counties.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: God designed the country as one unit, and we hoped it would remain as one unit. It should be one unit politically.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: Only two-thirds of the population of the north wish to remain there.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: What about the third of the people in the Border Counties who are anxious to be reunited with the rest of the nation?
Mr Anthony Mulvey: For 25 years advances of friendship have been made to the North in the desire to get them into a united Ireland, but without result.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: No one was defeated except Labour.
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I beg to second the Amendment. I feel it is futile on my part, or the part of the hon. Member for West Belfast (Mr. Beattie), to stand up in this House and protest against British shackles being fastened upon Ireland, especially as the Labour Party are about to tighten them with, I feel, the collusion of the Tories of Northern Ireland. As the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. McGhee) said...
Mr Anthony Mulvey: I say that definitely, because no Government have given the Irish people any assistance to settle their own differences. That has never been done by any Government. I say, from my experience of this Parliament and from our history of politics, while I admit we have the bulk of British labour with us, and I appreciate the support we have had, that no Government who have been in office for a...
