Member

It is useful and important that this issue can at least be debated somewhere in this United Kingdom—I am grateful that it is your Lordships’ House. It will not be debated in the Northern Ireland Assembly. It has been debated in the other place, but that is not a substitute for what should be happening. The development and processing of laws, and their coming through the normal legislative process, should be happening in the Assembly or here, not in Brussels and not with a “take it or leave it” position being imposed on us.