Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Ms Claire Sugden on .
- MLA
- Ms Claire Sugden
- Party at the time
- Independent
- 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 5739618
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I think that you made the same point as me, so I will let that stand. I do not want to go on past the lunch break. I commend the Member for what she is trying to do. I charge the Executive, and any incoming one, to address the issue in the right way. We are all sitting here as potential Members of the next Assembly. It is on us to try to take something forward in a more collaborative way. However, the Bill is not the right vehicle in which to address the issue. We would be setting ourselves up for a competition between public services, which is something that I am not sure we need. The matter needs to be taken forward separately from our issues with public services.
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