PARLIAMENTARY OATH AND AFFIRMATION

That this House believes it is right to use participation in parliamentary elections and in parliamentary debates to preserve or to alter the Union; recognises that the wordings established in the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 and the Oaths Act 1978 give an excuse to Sinn Fein MPs not to take their seats; welcomes their ability and their decisions to take their seats in the Irish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly; and is prepared to consider appropriate alternative affirmations or procedures that end the present stand-off.