Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Ms Kellie Armstrong on .
- MLA
- Ms Kellie Armstrong
- 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 5739380
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I thank the Member for giving way. I see it from the opposite side because, from my experience, the Department for Infrastructure is seen as the inactive element that does not remove flags. Every summer, I get hundreds of contacts from people asking me personally to remove flags and to go to the Department about it. I encourage people to phone the number and report the flags that they are concerned about. I do not know who puts up those flags because they are put up at 2.00 am or 3.00 am, in the hours of darkness, and there is no negotiation with local people, because it is done by people from outside the area. Can you understand why we need a process that the majority of the community trusts? At the moment, the regulations — the rules — are not being applied, and people have to live with flags, of all hues and colours, that they do not want.
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