After Clause 59

Part of Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Bill – in the House of Commons am 4:39 pm ar 20 Mehefin 1991.

Danfonwch hysbysiad imi am ddadleuon fel hyn

Photo of Peter Robinson Peter Robinson , Belfast East 4:39, 20 Mehefin 1991

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, because I suspect that he is coming to the end of his speech and I want to intervene before he does so.

Does the hon. Gentleman accept—I know that he will —that people in Northern Ireland look at the same situation from a different angle or vision? Is he aware that a broad body of opinion in Northern Ireland is concerned about the legislation that is piling up, which seems to burden our security forces and to make it more difficult for them to operate and to move left or right? Given that we are meeting after another soldier was brutally done to death in my constituency last night by the Provisional IRA, I am sure that the Minister will understand that, when considering with whom they should have sympathy in such circumstances, most people have sympathy with our security forces. Do we really need to make their job that much harder instead of making the task of the terrorist harder?