Members have said prayers.
number of trained pictures. The largest is of the Commons itself and has the title The House Empire'. If you Empire doesn't exist anymore, the tirst proceedings of I May were a reminder that it does It was Question Time on the North of Ireland. It was also the been found Castlerengh centre, So what would be the reaction and the 632 MPx7 anyway journalists wait in a long narrow room until after the Commons has sought divine guidance. In this room there is a own Sceve Biko.
*To ask the Secretary the think the heating PAISLEY hanged in interrogation questions; his way Uaf the Government citizens make it, feet more Goveroment for This For Hear, hears all round The next question co-operation West PLO.
Enoch Powell gor in first, of State insister; of Northern Ireland if he will approve the proposal of the Housing Executive to offer the allernative of sold fuel Republican all-electric heating systems.!
Powell likes to ask such of saying tbat what concerns the citizen: oi the North of Ireland exactly the same as concerns the of Manchester Polowing ine overninen reply, Tan Paisley was on his LEEDIBLE heating systems and to demand HESIS ALL hit constituents unforbrought howls protest from Labour MPs who argued that Big Ian had no right puhlic expenditure after he had voted for tax cuts the previous night while jocluding its heating systems were forgotten; after all the Government defeat on lax cuts Mason was much more exciting than But wherever. And as Roy Masor We've been very generous to Northern Ireland.
was: .ОП what a Unionist MP called the between Provisional IRA and international terrorists* Mason replied there was Do "significant" co-operation SDLP MP Gerry Fitt reminded the House before the Red Brigade or the This brought an interesting renonse from son. *We are not talking about the IRA. be ceasefire some time ago, We are In effect, Mason was taking a clear position on the split in the movement in 1969-70. For him the reformist UK.
ENOCH POWELL Dificial IRA was the real IRA This position is not even held by the Officials anymore -they disbanded their armed wing at their last conference Obviously a great student of the Republican tradition is Mr SESTE Brian Maguire hadn't been mentioned. . There was an opportunity when Tory MP John Biggs Davison asked Mason to make a statement on the security of the Province securily, which, as Mason spoke, was being threalened by protests over shocking.
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licket Downing Street Sat 20 May 11.30am THATES LEN Masons replied how the secunty cores were naving al defeating the Proves Be didn manner mention Brian Maguire and in neither did any MPs to James Lamound, MP for Oldhan East, who wanted To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will order inquiry under section T of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland 1953 into the conditions prisoners in the H Block of ch Maze Prison Back came Mason's reply, quick as a flash; "No.
Even the House Baspire was a bit embarrassed at that. A supplementary was asked and it was time Mason's phrass of the afternoon: "The Maze enjoys the best prison conditions in the HUBBUB By now the House had filled up a bit and the meatbers were beginning to Show their impatience with Ireland. It was difficult to make out the remaining questions above the gencral bubbub Then, relief all round, the Speaker announced *Prime Minister's Question Tine" and Ireland was forgotten for a few more days, weeks. or months By then it will probably be too late to raise the death of "Brian Whatshisname"
1970 Frank •Roache mounted his protest about the British Parlament and Ireland He lohhed a canister of CS gas into the Commons. Shocking,
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GEOFF BEIL reports from the House of Commons YOU AREN'T allowed into the press gallery in the House of Commons until after the Honourable Why this should be so is difficult to work out, but
boring old Belfast. pointed out: