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Ms Paula Bradshaw: Assembly records

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

1,753 records match, page 5 of 71.

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

    • Private Members' Business

    What you have described there is the status quo. People are flying their flags unauthorised, but, when others contact the flags reporting line or go to the Department on any number of issues to raise concerns, none of those matters are dealt with. There is a complete imbalance where the silent majority of people, who…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. I am not trying to have a gotcha moment, but the Member will be aware that section 78F of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 was inserted by the Identity and Language (Northern Ireland) Act 2022, placing a duty on the Department to consider its actions in that space. A lot of the wording…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you. I think that you have just made my argument for me. I want to see a robust, workable, consistent Bill, which will hopefully become an Act of the Assembly, in place, so that, regardless of who the Infrastructure Minister is in the next mandate or beyond, the general, wider public knows exactly how flags will…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    As I have just outlined, the flag in that case would be in the compound owned or controlled by a public authority or private business. A council could therefore erect a flag on their grounds, but the only authority that has ownership over the lighting columns is the Department. Councils do not have the authority to…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member. You will be aware that I have included billboards on public property. They are included. As my colleague Andrew McMurray said in the debate, we want to see consistency in approach. Whether it is a Sinn Féin billboard in a certain area or any other billboard, we just want to see consistency. On the…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    First, that is not what is in the Bill. The only penalty, the only fine and the only offence in my Bill is where somebody seeks to "obstruct" removal. As I said, under the Roads Order, if somebody puts something up, they can be fined. Existing legislation says that, but my legislation does not, so please do not…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    Thank you. That is exactly the point. My Bill places a duty on the Department to remove the flags because in the current legislation — whether public order or advertisements legislation — there is a reliance on the Department or a council to know who put the flags up. However, we do not know who is putting the flags…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    No, let me finish. Under section 87 of the Roads (Northern Ireland) Order 1993, if the Department knows who affixes flags to a lighting column, it can issue a fine. You all said that there is existing legislation. That is existing legislation, so if you know who put the flags up, you should be giving that information…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    First of all, I find it really offensive for the Member to say that I do not work in working-class communities. I spent 19 years of my life doing that. I have consulted widely on the Bill in my community, including in places such as Erinvale, where there are loads of flags and residents say that they were not put up…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    I found your contribution to be entirely inflammatory. It was wrong. There is no way that I would like to see anybody be harmed in this process. That is why I have said that an outside contractor, who is trained in health and safety and all those aspects, should be involved, and that the police could come in and…

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

    • Private Members' Business

    Many of your colleagues have spoken and tried to decimate the Bill, but not one of them has come up with a workable alternative. Your party has held the role of First Minister or deputy First Minister since the Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition (FICT) report came out. You have had years to work on a…

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