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

    I thank the Member for giving way. Just a moment ago, the Member was listing some of the issues around what this is going to cost the Department and the pressure that that will place on it. The Bill sponsor has been very quick to get up to answer your other point. I know that she has been frustrated about the number…

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

    I think that calling me devious is a bit close to the line, but I fully understand that the offence that is being created is in clause 5 and exactly what it is. Perhaps I used the language differently, but I was responding to Mr Gaston's point about why you would put your name on to something to get yourself into…

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

    There is nothing in the Bill or in the EFM at all around criminalising people who engage with this process. The only way that somebody will be on the wrong side of the law is if they try to obstruct the removal of flags. You used the word "criminalising" in the wrong context, and I am going to err on the side of…

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

    I thank the Member for the intervention. He makes an excellent point. Who is going to put into a portal, "I am going to do this", and then be incriminated on the back of that?

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

    The Bill sponsor in an intervention said that Mr Buckley had used the Roads Order. The fundamental flaw in that was that it only covers those who can be identified as having put up the flag. Surely, if this is going to be voluntary, the same will apply to this, because it is no different. You will only be able to…

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

    Absolutely. I thank the Member for that intervention. As I said, the presumption is to remove the flags. You see that as you read through this. I agree with the Member's point. Clause 2 contains a list of sensitive places, but, again, they are not clearly defined. It does not require such places to be treated as…

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

    Will the Member take a moment to reflect on the words that have been said? It is quite an intolerant and illiberal position for the Alliance Party to suggest that, apparently, its voters are of the disposition to remove all flags, but the Member has come with legislation that she believes tries to strike a balance. I…

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

    I thank the Member for her intervention and for confirming that what she actually wants is to just remove all flags. That is what I am actually trying to point out —

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

    I think that the Member is missing the entire purpose of the Bill. It is about ensuring that our public property, in the form of our lighting columns, is not abused through the use of flags or emblems. The alternative would have been for me to bring forward a Bill that placed a duty on the Department to remove all…

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

    Again, the Member makes a very important point. As we touched on during contributions, that could be anyone from a Minister, right down to our sectional engineers and local divisions. It will create massive inconsistencies in how some of the legislation is applied as well.

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

    Absolutely. I thank all my colleagues for their interventions. To Ms Brownlee's point, yes, it is about public confidence. Every time that something else went out from the Alliance Party about the Bill, it seemed to antagonise people, and the rate at which I got responses became stronger. To Mrs Erskine's point, we…

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

    I thank the Member for giving way again. If the authors of the Bill have struggled to get the imaging right around this, it gives no public confidence whatsoever in driving it forward. Does the Member agree?

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

    I thank the Member for giving way, considering that I spoke for a lengthy period earlier. I wish to make an important point. We have talked a lot in the Chamber recently about how terms such as "harm", "anxiety" and "fear" should be defined. It is exactly the same when it comes to the Bill: how somebody feels about a…

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