Speeches by McDonagh.

“Are you saying that the Serbian Government would have supported them better?”

“Don’t look at me or you will find that your speech is very short.”

“I will call Richard Holden to move the motion. I will then call the Minister to respond. I remind other Members that they may make a speech only with prior permission from the Member in charge of the debate and the Minister. There will not be an opportunity for the Member in charge to wind up, as is the convention in 3…”

“The power to alter the intentions, as mentioned by my hon. Friend, was not in the Bill we voted for in November. That is why I have tabled my amendment: to prevent anyone from tampering with the NHS as founded by our forefathers. Let us be clear about what clause 38 would allow. It would allow a Minister, through deleg…”

“That is the whole purpose of my amendment and my speech. Section 1 of the 2006 Act is the legal foundation on which every NHS duty rests, guaranteeing that our NHS will serve everyone, always. The section, which expresses the promise of “a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement…in the physical and …”

“Its potential is to alter everything in a very undemocratic manner. In this very Chamber, Nye Bevan told us that the NHS would “lift the shadow from millions of homes...keep very many people alive who might otherwise be dead...relieve suffering...produce higher standards for the medical profession” and “be a great cont…”

“I rise to speak to amendment 12, which stands in my name. I want to be clear that a decision on amendment 12 would not be a vote for or against assisted dying. The amendment is about preventing any Government of any political persuasion from rewriting the very purpose of the NHS, using a small group of MPs in a Committ…”

“Just to warn the Front Benchers, I am going to reduce your time to nine minutes in order to keep the time limit for Back Benchers at four minutes.”

“I am afraid that I will now impose a four-minute limit on speeches. I apologise to people for coughing, and will endeavour not to. Please do not be too distracted by me.”

“I do not think that I need to remind Members that they should bob if they wish to be called in the debate. As everyone can see, a large number of people would like to speak, so rather than impose a rigid timescale, I will be grateful if you could all be kind to one another and speak for approximately four minutes.”

“Every cautious organisation is going to come in under the limit, isn’t it? If you increased it by 5%, even if people only made it to 15% or 16%, there would still be lots of people who would get a benefit from it.”

“As a member of the Prudential Regulatory Committee, would you be sympathetic to a more liberal regime for building systems in their loan-to-income borrowing? At the moment, they are restricted; they can give only 15% of mortgages over 4.5 times income. If they were allowed to go up to 20%, they could help another 15,00…”

“Particular firms?”

“Who paid for the report?”

“Is the £20 million diagnostic report on car finance that the FCA commissioned ever going to be published?”

“It is absolutely laudable but it does not really answer my question.”

“That is all really laudable, but there is this group of people with a vested interest who think they are on a panel.”

“Do they lead a rich fantasy life?”

“Did they make it up?”

“The National Franchised Dealers Association certainly think that they are on a group. Are they wrong?”