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NIO – NORTHERN IRELAND TROUBLES BILL - 18 November 2025

NIO – NORTHERN IRELAND TROUBLES BILL - 18 November 2025

[The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Matthew Patrick): … As the Secretary of State has set out, this Bill is about helping people to get answers. I cannot begin to understand the pain of not knowing what happened to a loved one who was killed or disappeared. I can only imagine that the need for an answer, to know what really happened, never fades.]

Sir Julian Lewis: On that point, will the Minister give way?

[Matthew Patrick: I will not take interventions, as I am very short of time.]