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 5670810
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The UDA flags are an absolute disgrace. That massacre, like every massacre in Northern Ireland, was absolutely unjustified and unjustifiable. Is there not a danger, however, if we pass the Bill, of creating unreasonable expectations among the public that the flags will come down? The PSNI, with all its might, is not prepared to take them down, and we are going to ask DFI to take them down. What expectation will we create by passing such a law?
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