Debate contribution: Armed Forces Covenant and Armed Forces Bill
Debate contribution by Mrs Sinéad Ennis on .
- MLA
- Mrs Sinéad Ennis
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 5 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Armed Forces Covenant and Armed Forces Bill
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5774213
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I note that the deputy First Minister has waxed lyrical about the DUP's support for British veterans. That is, of course, in stark contrast to its historical links to Ulster Resistance, which supplied weapons to the UDA and the UVF, which were involved in hundreds of sectarian murders. Of course, the deputy First Minister will be aware of the attempt by Ulster Resistance to acquire weapons in Paris from the apartheid South African regime. How does the deputy First Minister square the DUP's support for the British state's forces with its historical involvement with Ulster Resistance?
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