Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Ms Paula Bradshaw on .
- MLA
- Ms Paula Bradshaw
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 22 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Private Members' Business
- Heading
- Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5739372
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Text
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 up, which is why we have taken the actors out of it and put the onus on the Department to take them down. The existing legislation does not work because they do not know who puts them up.
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