Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Jon Burrows on .
- MLA
- Mr Jon Burrows
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5670470
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Text
Clause 1(2)(a) explicitly states:
"the flag or emblem is intimidatory or threatening"
and
"the flag or emblem is likely to stir up hatred, or arouse fear".
Those could apply, subjectively, to someone complaining about a Union flag. A Union flag, for example, is not clearly disaggregated from a terrorist flag, because it could fall into both categories.
57 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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