Debate contribution: Ulster Resistance
Debate contribution by Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly on .
- MLA
- Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 8 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Ulster Resistance
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5600538
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Text
Here we have, once again, personal attacks being directed at me. Would the Member call out her children and the children of her colleagues? To the Member, who was convicted of IRA criminal activity, I say this: I hope that when you look at your colleagues to your left and right on your side of the House — people who were members of the IRA, an organisation that killed people, carried out punishment beatings on children, killed women, planted bombs that killed innocent civilians and shot people in the back from the darkness of the night — you call them out. Calling out someone for the alleged actions of their father, which you have done before, despite your own actions, is disgraceful. To the people who are watching us, I say that I stand on my own two feet. I have always been absolutely clear about where I stand on terrorism, paramilitarism and thuggery. I say it without reservation and can do so openly and honestly, because I believe in the future of this place. While Members on the other side of the House want to look back, I believe in building a better Northern Ireland for everyone in Northern Ireland, regardless of the community that they come from. I will work with people who have a past to try to build a future for them, provided that they can say, honestly and with hand on heart, "What happened in the past was wrong. There was always an alternative", and we will then move forward together. Shame on you. One person here let themselves down; it was not me.
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