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“I appreciate that. Thank you.”

“Would it maybe be better to take it out of it, then, in its entirety?”

“Secretary of State, ICRIR gave its own evidence. It listed, among a number of bullet points, some of its key functions. It lists one of those as, “Objectively telling unvarnished truths about the past”. It is trying, in my opinion, to play a role of looking at reconciliation in its own way. For me and others, including…”

“I agree we do not have a shared memory, but it is incumbent on all of us to state that terrorism was always wrong.”

“People are entitled to their own memory or whatever it may be, but we have to be open, up front and without fear or favour in stating that, no matter the circumstances. My fear is that this element of reconciliation, with terrorists coming forward, is giving them a charter to rewrite their role in the Troubles and give…”

“Secretary of State, do you intend to reinstate all inquests, or only those that were paused by the legacy Act? Do you see the merit in people wanting to seek fresh inquests?”

“That is useful. You did not seek, though, to reinstate inquests through the draft remedial order. Why not?”

“All of that being said, when do you then intend to lay the remedial order?”

“That reported in February of this year, I believe, so there has been quite a distance of time.”

“A really key issue in all of this is going to be the issue of funding and how any new inquests or inquests that were put on hold by the legacy Act are going to be funded. The Law Society, among others, has said that the resumption of legacy inquests requires proper resourcing so that it can proceed in an expeditious an…”

“If there is a resumption of inquests, it would probably be a fair assumption to make that they would seek to do that as soon as possible. There is potentially going to be a bottleneck of demand there. Are we to assume from your comments that you are saying that the Northern Ireland Executive should fund this? The legac…”

“Do you have any intention to revisit the funding formula, given everything that you have just said and the fact that you have accepted that inquests will be only partially funded, not all of them? Clearly, there will be demand. Secretary of State, what I am trying to get at is that we all know, around this table, that …”

“One of the letters within ICRIR stands for “reconciliation”. Some might consider that a misnomer at best or egregious at worst. There have been an awful lot of criticisms of ICRIR’s ability to aid, promote and deliver reconciliation. What would be your response to those criticisms?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Hobhouse. I thank the hon. Member for Liverpool West Derby (Ian Byrne) for securing this important debate today. I recognise that he is a survivor and that he has had the courage of his convictions to talk about this issue. It is challenging not just on a personal …”

“The shadow Minister talks about the 45 people wanting to speak. My first job was in hospitality. I want my young constituents in Lagan Valley to have the same opportunity, but does he agree that with these tax increases and not giving VAT cuts, it is so difficult for our hospitality businesses?”

“I completely agree with that contention. This is how we judge a society: by how it takes care of the most vulnerable. As the hon. Lady says, and not to discredit anybody, but it appears on the face of it that people have simply decided to say, “This is where we will go”, when in actual fact there are other avenues that…”

“On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Ministers will be aware that I have raised concerns about the treatment and detention of Lee Stinton, a British national and the son of Elaine and Edward Stinton, who are my constituents in Lagan Valley. He was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement while travellin…”

“Emily, you are absolutely right. There has clearly been a loophole that has been identified there. From my perspective, a further local example of this is Bernie’s example of the Alexander McCartney case. Emily and I should not have to go through this, but we can take recourse to help ourselves against these threats. W…”

“Emily, I am going to let you go first. You can probably tell part of our story better than I can, because I feel like I am too involved. Do you want to go for the both of us?”

“Just to come in on that point, if we are going to go here, I am going to go here. This is the oldest con trick in the book for women, whenever men abuse us at a certain age, if it occurs at that time. Even way back years ago, it was about the lad culture and the glamour girls—all of that. That is not a new thing. That …”