Mr Paul Rose: Not I.
Mr Paul Rose: As the youngest Member on this side of the Committee, I think that it is particularly appropriate that I should address myself to the subject of pensions. I am profoundly convinced that the unfair treatment of pensioners before 15th October was uppermost in the minds of many young people when they cast their vote on that day. I believe that this is a tribute to the idealism of so many young...
Mr Paul Rose: I, too, am grateful to the hon. Member for Bromley (Mr. Hunt), because far too many young people find leisure a burdensome vacuum rather than an enriched source of experience. There is today a grave danger that increased personal affluence will be matched by a creeping cultural impoverishment and that leisure will lead along paths far removed from the long and narrow ones recommended by the...
Mr Paul Rose: I am most grateful to my hon. Friend for that suggestion. It has been suggested that in the conurbation of Manchester, within 50 miles of which there are over 11 million people, we could do with a major stadium and allied facilities. I hope that the Department responsible for the new town will pay attention to what my hon. Friend has said. Such gymnasia and swimming pools belonging to schools...
Mr Paul Rose: We might add to that that about two-fifths of our schools were built before the 1914–18 war, and there are many schools in the Manchester and Salford area which do not possess even the first elementary sporting facilities.
Mr Paul Rose: In view of this contrast, it is no wonder that we are very largely a nation of watchers rather than participants and lag sadly behind other European countries in our provision for sport. I should like to see other facilities provided. I pride myself on being one of those hardy holidaymakers who occasionally risk our climate and go camping. Some of the facilities for camping in this country...
Mr Paul Rose: asked the Minister of Health, whether he will investigate further the causes of the high infant mortality rate in the Manchester area and northern counties.
Mr Paul Rose: Is my right hon. Friend aware that there appears to be a correlation between substandard housing and high infant mortality? Is he further aware that there is an acute shortage of midwives in the Manchester Hospital area? Will he take the necessary action to deal with this legacy of 13 years of Tory rule?
Mr Paul Rose: asked the Minister of Labour what steps he has now taken to increase the number of factory inspectors and the frequency of factory inspection.
Mr Paul Rose: In assessing the number of inspectors required, would my right hon. Friend take into account that new developments in processes and materials are attendant with new hazards? Would he also take into account the fact that only 40 per cent. of reportable accidents are in fact reported and that more working days are lost through industrial injuries and diseases than are lost through strikes?
Mr Paul Rose: Further to that point of order. A similar point of order was raised in a recent Adjournment debate when the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) was speaking. It was then ruled that it was in order to raise the matter.
Mr Paul Rose: Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.
Mr Paul Rose: Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. May I refer you to Section 75 of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, which provides: Notwithstanding the establishment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland … or anything contained in this Act, the supreme authority of the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall remain unaffected and undiminished over all persons, matters and things in...
Mr Paul Rose: In a debate on Northern Ireland, it is incumbent upon me, perhaps, to explain why I should intervene. I will say to the hon. and gallant Member for Down, South (Captain Orr) that of course the debate can proceed in a nonpartisan way, because hon. Members opposite have a monopoly of the Northern Ireland seats while the Opposition in Northern Ireland is not represented here. That is one good...
Mr Paul Rose: I do not think that any such thing can be taken from my remarks. I am merely trying to point out that there are many people on this side of the Irish Sea who are interested in the problems of Ireland. Many immigrants from Ireland settled in Manchester and many of them chose an area in my constituency, Mostyn. Although their Irish origins are very much lost in the past, the electoral register...
Mr Paul Rose: It will probably take the hon. and gallant Gentleman a good deal of time, because I have a file of such complaints.
Mr Paul Rose: I will be delighted to hand it to the hon. and gallant Gentleman, although I notice that he did not make a similar offer to the hon. Member for Orpington (Mr. Lubbock) whose raised a similar issue in a previous debate.
Mr Paul Rose: I do not propose to give way any more. The evidence which I receive week by week points to a manifestation of discrimination in both jobs and housing. During the recent General Election, in Belfast, West a leaflet was put out by an extremist organisation. It contained the following words: Do you want Roman Catholics in your street? We should not mince words about this matter. This is...
Mr Paul Rose: The difficulty is that when this matter is raised at Stormont, as it was on 16th February by a Nationalist member, Mr. Austen Currie, it is said that it is not a matter for Stormont. One wonders how to get to the root of this evil and to elicit the information required if it is not a matter for this House, nor for the Parliament of Northern Ireland. There are grave allegations, allegations...
Mr Paul Rose: If I did not mention the new town in Armagh, I will do so now.