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Mr David Brooks: Assembly records

All of Mr David Brooks’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.

944 records match, page 4 of 38.

  2. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Was the Mr O'Toole's intervention just another example of the idea that some politicians have that, "Something must be done. Here is something we can do, so we must do it"? There does not need to be a logic or a line that it will solve anything. It is just that, in the absence of anything else, we must just go ahead…

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    Assessment details Official Assembly record

  7. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    The Member is absolutely right: not much thought has been given to that at all, or, if it has, it has been dismissed on the basis that the Alliance Party will at least have something to hold up to its electorate and say, "Look, we did something. It doesn't matter that it's not sustainable. It doesn't matter that it…

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  8. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Absolutely. Everything in the Bill seems to be relatively subjective. Certainly, the decision-making powers seem to be subjective. How some of the things are decided would depend entirely on who is sitting in the Minister's chair in the new mandate. They could be decided on in an entirely biased fashion, depending on…

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  9. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    During my interventions in the first iteration of this debate, I said that the Bill was well intentioned. To some degree, I still believe that the intention behind it is genuine and well meaning and that it was an attempt, perhaps, to start the ball rolling and look for a compromise. From my point of view, however, is…

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  10. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    The Member rightly expresses concerns about UDA and UVF paramilitary flags. What is his view of how the unionist community look at the sunburst flag or, for instance, the D company flag that flew quite regularly in west Belfast? I have not seen it recently, because I have not been over in west Belfast that often, but…

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  12. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Will the Member agree with me that the Linfield flag controversy was particularly pointed, given that Alliance had form there, in that its former MLA Stephen Farry had previously compared a Linfield away shirt to a UVF flag. It is therefore understandable that questions were raised about the issue.

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  14. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Does the Member agree that there is already evidence of that? A party that does not have any consideration of planning regulations when illegally putting up a statue or that ignores and plays games around the erection of a Sinn Féin billboard elsewhere is not going to have any regard for legislation about a flag.

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  16. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. Does he agree that too much is being seen as, "Let's just put down the general idea of a Bill, throw it to the Committee and let the Committee work out the details"? There does not seem to have been an awful lot of thought given to the detail of how this will work.

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  17. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    Does the Member agree that what is relevant is that the Alliance Party was the enabler of Belfast City Council's 15% threshold for Irish language street signs? Some may rightly ask whether that is the kind of threshold that it is looking at having through this legislation.

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  19. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    The Member will remember the example that I gave last week of an area of the greenway in east Belfast. That greenway goes literally right at the back of a loyalist area and has houses either side of it that are part of the loyalist working-class area around the Newtownards Road. That is pretty well known as a loyalist…

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  21. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Private Members' Business

    The Member spoke about the street in Ballyhackamore, as I did during the previous iteration of this discussion. Is that an example of what he wants the system to be used for: to take those flags down? In those circumstances, that street hosts probably the biggest parade of the year in east Belfast — the Somme…

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  24. Debate contribution: Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann

    • Opposition Business

    There will be different views about any plans that come forward, but, in general, does the Member agree that we must make sure that we do not end up in a situation in which working-class, inner-city communities become car parks for those going on to use public transport?

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