Member's statement: Military Veterans: Support
Member's statement by Ms Cheryl Brownlee on .
- MLA
- Ms Cheryl Brownlee
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 18 February 2025
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- Military Veterans: Support
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4806136
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Fantastic work is being carried out by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council to support our veteran community. My constituency of East Antrim, and particularly Carrickfergus, has a long and proud military history, which brings great pride to the local community and to me as a representative. Our veterans have made immense sacrifices to protect our freedoms and way of life. It is our duty to ensure that they receive the support and recognition that they deserve. Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council have been exemplary, demonstrating an unwavering commitment to our veterans. Last night, the councillors of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council once again confirmed their commitment to our veteran community by voting to renew the council's commitment to the armed forces covenant. Mid and East Antrim Borough Council signed up to the armed forces covenant in 2016, and it has undertaken to support veterans with signposting, advice and veterans' roadshows, as well as the appointment of a veterans' champion. The council also organises and facilitates a range of events to commemorate key anniversaries, including services for Remembrance Sunday in November each year. The formation of the Mid and East Antrim veteran support programme has been a key driver in supporting our armed forces community in the borough. It offers bus trips, walking tours, talks and health awareness events. I look forward to hosting the group in Parliament Buildings tomorrow with our party leader. I pay particular tribute to my party colleagues for their ongoing commitment to our armed forces and the veteran community. I reiterate my party's support for those who have and continue to put on the uniform and put themselves in harm's way to protect and preserve our freedoms.
296 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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