Robin Swann

Robin Swann

Ulster Unionist Party — South Antrim

Speaking in the House of Commons on 4 December 2025

Debate

Northern Ireland: Legacy of the Past

Contribution

I thank the Chair of the Select Committee for the evidence sessions. The Northern Ireland Troubles Bill will go into Committee of the whole House, so those sessions will be the only opportunity for witnesses to come put forward and give their testimonies on the Bill and the current legislation. Forty-two amendments and five new clauses have already been tabled, which shows the interest in it and the further work that needs to be done on it. On the warm words of the Irish Government, I have been involved in those conversations for 14 years and heard a lot of warm words, but we have never seen anything on legacy from the Irish Government, either on paper or in delivery. Will the Chair of the Select Committee continue to put pressure on her own Front Benchers to produce some action in that regard? In one recommendation, the Committee suggests that the “exclusion of…Troubles-related sexual crimes from the commission’s remit” ought to be addressed in the Bill. In that case, will the Chair of the Select Committee support my amendment 4, which would do that?

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