division_name: Informal European Council &#8212; Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations)
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b138.8/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The challenge we all face now is ensuring that as we prepare to leave the EU we secure the best possible deal for Wales. Together, we intend to rise to that challenge.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b139.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Secretary of State must seek to reach a consensus&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b141.5/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the legal status of EU nationals resident in Scotland&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b147.7/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the government I lead will always be on your side. Every decision we take, every policy we take forward, we will stand up for you and your family&#8212;not the rich, the mighty or the powerful. That&#8217;s because I believe in a union, not just between the nations of the United Kingdom, but between all of our citizens.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b148.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Theresa May has indicated that&#8230;she will not trigger the formal process for leaving the EU until there is an agreed &#8216;UK approach&#8217; backed by Scotland.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b149.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;passing legislation as necessary to mitigate the effects of failing to reach a deal.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b149.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a UK wide approach to, and objectives for, the UK&#8217;s negotiations&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b150.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Seek to agree a UK approach to, and objectives for&#8230; negotiations&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b163.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;funding for each and every part of the UK, including Wales, would be safe if we vote to leave.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b166.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;No, this won&#8217;t be the last Wales Bill&#8230;. Brexit will require devolution changes to realign those responsibilities.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b168.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Now that the Republic has become a net contributor to the EU Budget, and the fact that it will be doing nearly two-thirds of its foreign trade with English speaking countries outside the EU when the UK leaves, as well as for the other reasons set out in the report, it is clearly in its best interests that it should leave the EU at or around the same time as the UK does.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b169.2/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I want to see Ireland&#8212;North and South&#8212;the wounds of violence healed, play its rightful role in a Europe that will, for all Irish people, be a shared bond of patriotism and new endeavour.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b169.2/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;My only counsel to Ireland is, that to become deeply Irish, she must become European.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b169.2/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Used with the wisdom that is sewn in tears and blood, this tragedy of Europe may be and must be the prologue to the two reconciliations of which all statesmen have dreamed, the reconciliation of Protestant Ulster with Ireland, and the reconciliation of Ireland with Great Britain.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b171.1/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we do not underestimate the importance of constitutional conventions, some of which play a fundamental role in the operation of our constitution. The Sewel Convention has an important role in facilitating harmonious relationships between the UK Parliament and the devolved legislatures.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b178.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the mayors of the north to come and have a meeting in York&#8221;.&#8212;[Official Report, <phrase class="date" code="2017-01-17">17 January</phrase> 2017; Vol. 619, c. 802.]</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b180.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Sewel Convention has an important role in facilitating harmonious relationships between the UK parliament and the devolved legislatures. But the policing of its scope and the manner of its operation does not lie within the constitutional remit of the judiciary&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b183.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Relations with the EU and other foreign affairs matters are reserved to UK Government and parliament, not to the devolved institutions.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b183.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The devolved legislatures do not have a veto on the UK&#8217;s decision to withdraw from the EU&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b184.2/3" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b184.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 276, Noes 333.</p>