division_name: Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill
motion: <p class="indent" pid="a186.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A nation that keeps one eye on the past is wise. A nation that keeps two eyes on the past is blind.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a187.4/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we must never forget those that have died or been injured and their families&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a187.4/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This bill is, quite simply, disgraceful. Government say they take sexual violence seriously. Yet they are prepared to grant amnesty to those accused of conflict related sexual offences either in NI or England. It is an affront to victims, to justice and is gross hypocrisy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a187.4/16" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;In order to build consensus on workable proposals that have widespread support we must listen to the concerns of victims, survivors and other interested parties.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a190.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Why is John&#8217;s sectarian murder in Belfast different from a racially motivated murder in London? If this legislation gets through whoever murdered John could simply get away with it. It is just wrong that perpetrators will be able to get on with their lives officially, given amnesty by the state, while we are left to cope with the devastation. We brought our children up to believe in law and order and it is so wrong that the rule of law can be overridden in this way. The hurt never goes away.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a192.3/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We will continue to seek better ways of dealing with legacy issues that provide better outcomes for victims and survivors and do more to give veterans the protections they deserve.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a193.7/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;for the ICRIR to conduct successful information recovery investigations, which will in turn significantly aid reconciliation in the long term, it is essential for the possibility of a prosecution outcome to be restricted to those who fail to participate effectively in the truth recovery process.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a193.7/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I want justice. All this talk of amnesty has brought it all back to the fore again. What will they&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a193.7/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;tell that will be of any benefit to me? It&#8217;s so deeply unfair. My blood runs cold. There is no &#8216;amnesty&#8217; for victims&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a197.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A relevant authority must make available&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a197.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A relevant authority may also make available&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a202.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Without this investigation we would never have got answers. Operation Kenova has been important as someone else thought my mum&#8217;s life was worth something. Everyone has the right to a thorough investigation&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a218.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We identified my daddy by his curly hair. Fourteen times they shot him. The next day they blackened his name and called him a gunman. Two years later, my brother Bernard, with a mental age of nine, was killed by the IRA. We want no amnesty for anyone.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a218.4/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;we are sure that this Bill is substantially, in fact almost certainly fatally, flawed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a224.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I feel I cannot answer that question because there is a Republican code of honour. For me to identify who these people are would be a betrayal, in my view. To do so would have been a gross act of betrayal. I have a duty, in my view, stretching back 30 years, to those people and I am not prepared to break my word to them under any circumstances.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a224.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Justice delayed is justice denied&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a228.2/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;this Bill is substantially, in fact almost certainly fatally, flawed.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a249.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The immunity requests panel must take account of any guidance given by the Secretary of State&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a249.1/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;On and after the day on which this section comes into force, no criminal investigation of any Troubles-related offence may be continued or begun.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a253.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Unusually for such an immunity scheme, there is no specific prohibition on certain kinds of crime, such as crimes of sexual violence. It would therefore appear that applicants who had been involved in rape and other crimes of sexual violence related to the Troubles, or indeed the covering up of such crimes within paramilitary or state organisations, would be entitled to apply for immunity under this bill.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="a256.4/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;I am undertaking the most terrifying, difficult and awesome task. The solution&#8230;will only be found in the hearts and minds of men and women.&#8221;</p>