Speeches by Robinson.

“Is that charcoal?”

“Mr Curran, you are going to get different questions from my colleague Ms Eastwood around wastewater treatment, so I do not want to focus on that. You have acknowledged the scale of the phosphorus that Northern Ireland Water is pumping into the lough. There are seven entry points at which human waste is going in. That i…”

“Was the illegal extraction in the north-west as well, or is it everywhere in the lough?”

“You know that the Lough Neagh action plan now has a specific remit of looking at the ecological impact. You have mentioned 2%, and I think I am right in thinking that the dredging takes place up in the north-west of the lough.”

“That is not the question. It is the ecological impact of sand dredging.”

“Mr Darby, you helpfully mentioned, as a scene setter, that Lough Neagh is a commercial lough. It is not a sanitised reservoir or pleasure facility. Though it has those qualities, it is also commercial. There has been an issue around sand dredging, and you mentioned it. Have you any discernible sense of the ecological i…”

“Labour Members may cheer, but not one of those clauses refers to veterans. Those are not protections for veterans; they are protections for everyone—paragraph 20 of the explanatory notes shows that what I am saying is true—and many of them are already available in the criminal justice system. It is a mirage. To be coll…”

“Yesterday, in an atypical fit of pique, the Secretary of State failed to answer my question as to whether the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, had been excluded from the legislation or had personally recused himself. So today I have an easier question. Given that the Secretary of State yesterday highlighted the protectio…”

“First, I welcome the Minister to his place and to the Department, and I welcome the new shadow spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats. I personally thank the hon. Member for Putney (Fleur Anderson) for the role she played in her time in the Northern Ireland Office. That the announcement with the Irish Government was ma…”

“Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. I think it is appropriate that on behalf of the Democratic Unionist party, and indeed on behalf of all Northern Ireland parliamentarians, I extend our condolences to the Liberal Democrats and to the colleagues who knew Mr Campbell better than I did. I first came across Sir Mi…”

“Through the Secretary of State, may I thank the Minister for Digital Government and Data, who is sitting to her left? He was in Belfast last week and engaged with the Minister for Communities in the Northern Ireland Executive. He will know, and she should know, that our principled and practical objections to this propo…”

“In November 2022, the hon. Members for Widnes and Halewood (Derek Twigg) and for Angus and Perthshire Glens (Dave Doogan) and I were in Ukraine with the Defence Committee when there was an onslaught of rockets fired into that country, one of which errantly fell into Poland and killed two Polish nationals. On that day, …”

“Over the last 10 days in my constituency, there have been five of the most appalling and violent acts by self-styled vigilante groups. In each case, they livestream on Facebook Live and TikTok LIVE. Those videos disappear, and the creators remain anonymous. There will be a criminal justice response, but may I ask the M…”

“Language does matter, Secretary of State.”

“Who makes the determination on closed material? Is that the coroner?”

“That is issued by you, the police or the security services.”

“That could be you or the police. It could be the security services. It could be anybody who has information from the state.”

“You know, and you said earlier in this session, that a lot of people say a lot of things. You cannot be expected to comment on them all. I understand that. The current discourse around inquest is that there are 14 that should be re-engaged when you make an announcement on legacy, that half of them will go to the commis…”

“I am talking about comments and the general discourse on inquests.”

“In terms of confidence in this process, should people be surprised if half of 14 inquests do not proceed to full inquest?”