§ Mr. Wm. Rossasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how he intends to make use of the agreement on terror ism recently signed in Dublin.
§ Mr. Humphrey AtkinsI welcome the recent signing, on 4 December, of the agreement concerning the application of the European convention on the suppression of terrorism by the EEC member States as amongst themselves. The agreement will not come into force until three months after it has been ratified by all the Nine member States and I cannot predict when this will be. In any event, Her Majesty's Government will continue to make use where appropriate of the extra-territorial legislation which already governs relations between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in this respect.