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 5740366
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I thank the Member. The police agreed that they would support the contractors in taking down the recent flag at the bottom of the Lisburn Road and Sandy Row, so the police are willing to provide support. The fundamental point, however, is this: why are we giving cover by saying that, because it is too difficult a problem to address paramilitaries, we should just allow them to continue to assert their coercive control in those communities?
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