IRISH POTATO FAMINE
Early day motion 55A1, tabled 9 December 2008 by Mark Durkan (Social Democratic and Labour Party). Signed by 6 members.
at end add `and also greatly regrets the prominent statue in Central Lobby honouring Lord John Russell, the Prime Minister whose ideological obsession with free market forces and indifference to human suffering deserves large blame for the scale of the Irish famine and its consequences.'.
Signatures by party: Labour 5, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.