Debate contribution: Civil Disobedience

Debate contribution by Mrs Linda Dillon on 5 October 2026.

MLA: Mrs Linda Dillon
Party at the time: Sinn Féin
Date: 5 October 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Civil Disobedience
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5774249

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I am a bit young to be "the past", but thanks very much for the lecture. First of all, for clarity: the residents are absolutely in control of everything that happens on the Garvaghy Road. If you or any of your colleagues bothered to go down on to the Garvaghy Road and speak to the people in that community centre, you would understand exactly their position. Everybody who was on that stage was there at the wishes of the Garvaghy Road residents and nobody else. Nobody got to tell them, or dictate to them, who would be where or who would speak on their behalf. They absolutely dictated what would happen —

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 2652/22-27.

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