Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
Debate contribution by Mr Trevor Clarke on .
- MLA
- Mr Trevor Clarke
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist 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 5739938
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The Member for East Antrim's point exemplifies another problem, which is that the way in which the Bill is drafted means that the onus is on the Minister for Infrastructure to act. I do not mean to be disparaging to the Minister, but, with respect, given her track record on the issue at the Egyptian Arch in her constituency, I do not see her giving an instruction for republican flags in republican areas to be removed. Given how the Bill is drafted, there is a danger that the onus would be placed on the Minister, regardless of whom the Minister is now or in the future, to act. It might be suggested that a unionist Minister would take down only republican flags and that a republican Minister would take down only loyalist flags.
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