Member

This is the outrageous constitutional position that Northern Ireland finds itself in, with all the undemocratic consequences that flow from it that deny the representatives of the people of Northern Ireland—unionists, nationalists and others, because there are people who do not designate as either, as we know—here or at Stormont any say in the laws that govern them in all these areas. That should alarm all parties in Northern Ireland but seems to be welcomed by nationalists. The SDLP, Sinn Féin and the Alliance Party revel in the fact that the EU makes these laws and, as elected representatives in Stormont on the so-called Democratic Scrutiny Committee, want hardly any scrutiny of these matters because everything that comes from Europe must be wonderful and cannot possibly cause any damage. All the evidence, of course, is that real hardships, frictions and difficulties are being caused.