NI: Northern Ireland - new material (2)
01 November 1998
Don't cut RUC numbers Patten urged, Police Federation. Police November 1998, pp31-32. This is the Police Federation's submission to the Commission into Policing in Northern Ireland, which is chaired by former Conservative Party minister, Chris Patten. Noting - without irony - the "unique qualities" of the notoriously sectarian RUC it hopes the inquiry will "establish...the conditions in which the RUC can come to be seen and accepted as the police service of all the people."
A policing service for a new future, Sinn Fein. An Phoblacht 1.10.98. pp10-11. This article gives a precis of Sinn Fein's submission to the Patten Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland. It observes that: "There are currently 13,000 members of the RUC. International experience indicates that in a stable society with a population of 1.5 million around 3,000 police officers are required."
Just News. Committee on the Administration of Justice, Vol. 13 no 7/8 (July/August) 1998. Latest issue contains pieces on "policing public protest", the Patten Commission into policing, the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998, the preliminary hearing for the Bloody Sunday inquiry and a report on the CAJ/ICCL conference on "incorporating the European Convention on Human Rights into Irish law". Available from: CAJ, 45/47 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FG.
The Assembly must work to bring justice and equality, Martin McGuinness. An Phoblacht 17.9.98., pp10-11. This is a transcript of McGuinness's speech to the Northern Ireland/Six County Assembly in which he calls for a decommissioning of "the injustices and inequalities of the past and to decommission all the British and Irish guns."
A new course for the future, Gerry Adams. An Phoblacht 1.10.98. p9 & 12. This is the text of a talk by Sinn Fein spokesman, Gerry Adams, to the Tribune rally at the British Labour Party conference. In it Adams points out that: "The current impasse in the peace process and the UUP's [Ulster Unionist Party] refusal to implement the Good Friday Agreement is not about the guns or the decommissioning issue. It is about the unionists' refusal to fully embrace the kind of changes which are required if a genuine peace settlement is to be built."
Parliamentary debates
Northern Ireland Bill Commons 27.7.98. cols. 55-140
Northern Ireland (sentences) Commons cols. 29.7.98. 476-500
Northern Ireland Bill Commons 30.7.98. cols. 559-606
Northern Ireland Bill Commons 31.7.98. cols. 633-652
Omagh Commons 2.9.98. cols. 694-712
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 5.10.98. cols. 167-230
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 19.10.98. cols. 1177-1201
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 19.10.98. cols. 1214-1247
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 19.10.98. cols. 1265-1306
Northern Ireland Bill Commons 21.10.98. cols. 1441-1512
Northern Ireland Bill Commons 21.10.98. cols. 1529-1554
Lieutenant-Colonel Miller Commons 21.10.98. cols. 1245-1253
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 26.10.98. cols. 1693-1759
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 26.10.98. cols. 1775-1808
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 26.10.98. cols. 1818-1890
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 10.11.98. cols. 630-730
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 11.11.98. cols. 774-824
Northern Ireland Bill Lords 17.11.98. cols. 1202-1232
Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998 (Specified Organisations) (No. 2) Order 1998 Lords 17.11.98. cols. 1232-1236
Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 1998 Lords 17.11.98. cols. 1236-1240