Motion or amendment: Audit and Re-Imaging of Memorials
Motion or amendment by Mr Andrew McMurray on .
- MLA
- Mr Andrew McMurray
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 21 October 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Audit and Re-Imaging of Memorials
- Assembly identifier
- Document 455843
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Audit and Re-Imaging of Memorials
That this Assembly recognises that people should have the right to remember the dead in a respectful, sensitive and dignified manner; acknowledges that this should also be done in a way that avoids causing pain or hurt to others; expresses concern that there are memorials on public land that were erected without lawful authority and include imagery and emblems that can be seen as marking territory and glorifying terrorism; and calls on the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in partnership with other Ministers and the Northern Ireland Housing Executive, to conduct an audit to assess the number of memorials on public land, to lead a programme of supporting communities to re-image these memorials by removing paramilitary imagery and emblems and references to acts of violence or events that caused pain and misery, and to develop guidance to ensure that future memorials expressly require planning permission and are displayed in accordance with agreed standards.
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