" I therefore urge all the airlines to drop these charges and restrictions and have written to the Minister in charge to ask him if there is anything that can be done to force them to change this policy".

BBC: Short debate: The right to breathe

"I am not a lawyer, so you would have to ask a lawyer for that - he's had his lawyers with him, and the word he used is 'contests', so we just have to accept that, " he replied.

BBC: Cardinal Keith O'Brien