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  2. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    Just before the Member moves off the issue of costings, to put it into context, that £27,000 relates to one hour from two constables and one hour of inspector time, which is £143 per hour. That shows that the PSNI is being deployed and is going to certain situations where a flag needs to be taken down. However, if we…

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  6. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for giving way. I cannot believe the costing of £26,000 that the Bill sponsor has outlined. I talked about bonfires earlier. I understand that that is a different issue, but the PSNI said that the removal of bonfire materials at Bloomfield Walkway and Cluan Place in my constituency cost it £188,000,…

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  10. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    That is exactly what you said. The record will show that, for the past two hours, you have said that there is great work, and that I applaud and recognise that, and now you are saying that the problem is a lot bigger than your colleagues have been indicating all afternoon. You cannot have it both ways.

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  12. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for giving way on that point. We have spent the past couple of hours hearing DUP contributions about how there is great communication, great engagement and the vast majority of flags come down within a reasonable time, so what the Member just said contradicts that.

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  13. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    When I first made a contribution on the Bill as the Committee Chair, I made reference to the fact that Birmingham City Council had spent £2·6 million of public money to remove Union flags and English flags. I said it then, and I repeat it now: Belfast is no Birmingham. We have a proliferation of flags for different…

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  14. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for giving way. Mr Speaker, I will be clear and loud in the Chamber so that Members can hear me. I will also be very careful with my words and language. Does the Member agree that the figure of £26,000 is for the birds?

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  15. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for her intervention. I do not think that it is valid to cost the Bill on the basis of complaints. If you are to require a portal entry for every flag that is being put up or for every celebration and commemoration, there will be a lot more of those entries than the number that lead to complaints.

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  16. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for letting me come in. A financial assessment has been done. Committee members have that; it is in the EFM. It is estimated at around £27,000-plus per year. That is on the basis of an average of 165 complaints a year. It has been costed through. It is there, it is in the EFM, and members of the…

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  17. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    I thank the Member for that. On Mr Brooks's point, I do not know whether the Bill sponsor wants to provide details of estimates of the core costing of the process.

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  18. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    • Mr Paul Frew DUP
    • Private Members' Business

    I thank the Member for giving way. The Bill sponsor completely misses the point about the offences. The point that we made earlier and the point that she was making relates to this issue: when you put your name into the portal and put up Union flags, if, the very next night, UVF flags go up, that will be attributed to…

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  19. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. As I said yesterday to the Benches opposite, it is difficult to hear from here when Members turn their backs and direct their words to the colleagues who sit behind them. It is really difficult to hear.

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  24. Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage

    On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I would like you to review the use of the word "devious". I am not entirely sure whether it was directed towards Ms Forsythe or me, but, surely, it is unparliamentary and shows a Member under pressure and one who cannot stand over the Bill that she has brought before us.

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