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 5670822
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The UDA flags outside the police station are a perfect example. It was the security reviewer of police powers who spotted them and said to the PSNI, "How come they are outside your police station?". The PSNI said, "We do not have the power to deal with it", so the Government gave it the power, but it is still not dealing with it. This is about fairness to the Department for Infrastructure. The PSNI, with all its might, resources and the ability to protect itself, has been given the power to do something and has refused to do it, so what are we now going to do? We are going to say to DFI, "You must do it. Over to you, civil servants, because the police force of 7,500 is not prepared to do it". The flags should come down. The questions are how and who is responsible.
I will come to that.
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