Results 21–40 of 256 for speaker:Baroness Suttie

Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 19 (21 Jun 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I shall speak in favour of Amendment 110, to which I have added my name. It would remove Clause 40 from the Bill and would have the effect of leaving the inquest system as it currently stands. I shall be extremely brief because the noble Baronesses, Lady O’Loan and Lady Ritchie, have made the case so powerfully in favour of the amendment. The Minister will know that the victims’...

Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 12 (21 Jun 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, this has been an interesting short debate. These Benches fully support Amendment 31, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Hain, and signed by the noble Lords, Lord Blair and Lord Murphy, and the noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan; if it is pushed to a vote on Monday, we will certainly support it. As other noble Lords have spelled out so clearly—perhaps not the noble Baroness, Lady Hoey, who...

Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 9 (21 Jun 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, the sheer number and scope of amendments in this group should serve as a clear indication to the Government that there continue to be grave concerns about the proposals for immunity set out in Clause 18. I have added my name on behalf of these Benches to Amendment 66, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Murphy, and also signed by the noble Baronesses, Lady O’Loan and Lady Ritchie,...

Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 2 (21 Jun 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I place on record my thanks to the Minister for introducing Amendments 85 and 86, which, in essence, as he has said, are the same amendments that I tabled in Committee and were recommended by the victims’ commissioner, Ian Jeffers. It is a very welcome and common-sense change to the Bill, allowing for individuals affected by death and other harmful conduct to provide and publish...

Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill - Report (1st Day): Amendment 1 (21 Jun 2023)

Baroness Suttie: I echo a lot of the comments that the noble Lord, Lord Murphy, has just made, and the Minister’s comments about remembering. It is very important that we never forget all those impacted and killed by the Troubles. I too start by thanking the Minister for the constructive way in which he has engaged on the Bill, given the constraints that he faces at the other end of the building. He has...

Illegal Migration Bill - Committee (1st Day) (Continued): Amendment 6 (24 May 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 12, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick, to which I have added my name. A very similar amendment was tabled in the House of Commons by my honourable friend Stephen Farry MP. Unfortunately, the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, is unable to be present this evening, as she is in Brussels on a delegation, so she has asked me to speak to the...

Immigration (Electronic Travel Authorisations) (Consequential Amendment) Regulations 2023 - Motion to Regret (23 May 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I too thank the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick, for her regret Motion, which has allowed a very interesting debate on a very important matter. I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, for his very relevant questions from the other perspective, which I hope the Minister will be able to give full answers to. I pretty much agreed with everything the noble Baroness, Lady...

Northern Ireland (Interim Arrangements) Bill - Committee (and remaining stages): Amendment 1 (23 May 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I will endeavour to be fairly brief. I have quite a lot of sympathy with the DUP amendment. Indeed, I raised similar points at Second Reading last week, and it is similar to an amendment tabled in the House of Commons by my friend Stephen Farry MP. There is no doubt that Northern Ireland faces an extremely challenging situation as regards future public financing, but I am afraid...

Northern Ireland (Interim Arrangements) Bill - Second Reading (18 May 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the speech of the noble Viscount, Lord Stansgate, on the unusually important but not often raised issue of science in Northern Ireland and the role that Northern Ireland can play in that regard. I, too, begin by paying tribute to Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville for the invaluable work he did in paving the way towards the peace process. I was very...

Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill - Committee (4th Day): Amendment 146 (11 May 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I apologise to the Minister and the Committee that, due to an earlier engagement, I will unfortunately have to leave before the end of this group. If noble Lords will indulge me, I will speak briefly now. I agree with an awful lot of what the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, has said about the general approach to the Bill. This is the fourth day and we continue to have tremendous...

Machetes: Consultation - Statement (19 Apr 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for responding to this very important Statement. The measures in the consultation and the decision to ban machetes and certain types of large outdoor knives that serve no practical purpose are eminently sensible and broadly to be welcomed. Far too many lives have been destroyed by serious knife crime violence and far too many families have been...

Sudan - Statement (19 Apr 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I refer noble Lords my entry in the register of interests and my work in Sudan. I want to associate myself closely with the remarks of my noble friend Lord Purvis, particularly regarding the urgent need to establish safe channels for injured civilians and foreign nationals to leave. I welcome what the Minister has said in that regard. Does he agree that there is a very real risk...

Windsor Framework (Democratic Scrutiny) Regulations 2023 - Motion to Approve: Amendment to the Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, it is probably time to move on to the concluding speeches, as we have heard from every DUP Peer present. This has been a thoughtful and comprehensive debate. Like the noble Lord, Lord Lilley, I have agreed with bits of many speeches—although, I suspect, slightly different bits from the noble Lord—and it has shown some of the strengths and weaknesses of how we debate in this...

Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - Committee (5th Day): Amendment 117 ( 8 Mar 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I rise to speak briefly to Amendments 119 and 127, to which I have added my name. Like my noble friend Lord Bruce, I apologise to the Committee: for a variety of reasons I was unable to attend the previous debates on devolution. The noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick, has given detailed background to these amendments and made a powerful set of arguments in favour of them....

Windsor Framework - Question ( 7 Mar 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, does the Minister agree that what businesses in Northern Ireland need now is stability and the ability to plan? Does he further agree that, while it is reasonable to allow all parties, including the DUP, time to examine the Windsor deal in detail, it is not reasonable to allow one party to continue to block progress indefinitely?

Stormont Brake - Question ( 2 Mar 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I, too, welcome the agreement and hope that it will lead very soon to a return to a functioning Assembly and Executive—for if there is no Stormont, there is no Stormont brake. Given the very real concerns of the Alliance Party and the SDLP, can the Minister say whether the Government intend to introduce a review mechanism to assess how the Stormont brake is working in practice...

Northern Ireland (Executive Formation and Organ and Tissue Donation) Bill - Second Reading (27 Feb 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I also thank the Minister for his clear presentation of the Bill. I utterly condemn the shooting and attempted murder of Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell in Omagh, a community that has already suffered so much pain and loss. As the joint statement from the political leaders said so powerfully, there should be “absolutely no tolerance for such attacks by the enemies of our...

Omagh Bombing - Statement ( 9 Feb 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, I too am grateful for the opportunity to discuss the Northern Ireland Secretary’s Statement from last week and I very much echo and agree with the points made by the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of Basildon. The decision to hold the inquiry is welcome. It is the right decision, and the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland should be commended for it. He listened, and he changed...

Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Supreme Court Judgment - Private Notice Question ( 9 Feb 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, further to that answer, does the Minister agree that this ruling increases the urgency to make real progress on the negotiations as soon as possible? The sooner there is a return to Stormont and the Executive, the better this will be for the people of Northern Ireland, given the cost of living crisis they currently face.

Northern Ireland Budget Bill - Second Reading (and remaining stages) (Continued) ( 7 Feb 2023)

Baroness Suttie: My Lords, this has been a wide-ranging if slightly depressing debate. Given the hour, I shall be very succinct in my response. This debate should of course not be taking place here in Westminster. Like many speakers, I very much regret that it is not taking place in the Northern Ireland Assembly. In that regard, I fully agree with what the noble Lord, Lord Hain, actually said—as opposed to...


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