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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member —.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. Some Members may roll their eyes at the commentary about Linfield Football Club, but it is a very serious issue. The club's fans took considerable exception to the club's being drawn into the political field by the Bill sponsor on what is already a contentious issue, given that, as…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. She has declared her love for Linfield, but I am glad that she is wearing sky blue, which is the colour of Ballymena United. Does the Member agree with me that the very fact that the Alliance Party and the Bill sponsor have targeted Linfield Football Club because of its colours and…
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials Criteria met: Identity framing, Cultural grievance politics, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
Never have I received so much correspondence and wider contact about an issue than I have about this Bill. Many people have raised huge, valid and legitimate concerns. I appreciate that a lot of work has gone into the Bill, and I give credit to the Bill sponsor for that, but it is reckless legislation with…
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials Criteria met: Identity framing, Sectarian or communal antagonism, Cultural grievance politics, Dog-whistle messaging, Controversy escalation.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
The Member is absolutely right. That is primarily where action should occur in legitimate confrontations about flag-flying and cultural respect. Does the Member agree that, where there clearly are threats, intimidation or paramilitary or illegal activity, that is for the existing statutes to deal with? We have…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank my colleague for that intervention and agree completely on that. It is also important to correct claims about the FICT report. The report did not agree or recommend a statutory code of practice that would restrict the right to fly a flag through an online notification system with imposed time limits. Its…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. She referenced a very interesting point that has been a continual theme on these Benches: the real risk of generating rather than solving community tension. Does the Member agree that not only is that an important point of consideration — indeed, elected representatives should engage…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I addressed the excessive period issue earlier. You may wish to reflect on what I said by reading the Hansard report. However, a lot of that is taken from the FICT code of practice, which, obviously, is not set in stone. The basis, however, was there for anybody who was preparing for this debate to look at, and, as I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
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Just for the record, when I introduced my proposals, the Bill Office had to assess my Bill against human rights considerations. The Bill was sent to the Human Rights Commission and the Equality Commission for their comments. Whilst I am not under an obligation in that regard, we have tested it.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member for his intervention. I was speaking about the presumption in clause 1 that it is in the public interest to remove a display that the Department considers "offensive, abusive or insulting". We have to point out that there is no general right to be offended. In a free and democratic society, freedom…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. We have heard time and again, "What is the alternative?", being thrown back at this side of the Chamber. The alternative is fulfilling the legislation that is there. If that is not working, it is about holding the statutory bodies to account to fulfil their duties, instead of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I will in a wee minute. We do not want to make things worse or exacerbate problems. We have heard such good examples today. One size does not fit all in this place. What happens in the constituencies of East Belfast, West Belfast or Fermanagh and South Tyrone can be very different, but we could take very good examples…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
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I appreciate both of those interventions. It demonstrates how serious a conversation we are having.
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I thank the Member for giving way. Deputy Speaker, in addressing the point that has just been made, you will be glad to know that I will not get into a discussion about the geography of east Belfast, but I did recognise that the church is there and that it belongs to a neighbouring community in the Short Strand. I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank the Member for giving way. I have listened to all the Members who have spoken. When I spoke on the Bill previously, I said that it is not perfect and work needs to be done. That is why my party wants it to go to Committee Stage; so that we can work through it. I get the feeling that your party will block it or…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
We have so much more to do with the resource that we have in this place. We do not have enough, and we know that. Our health service needs it. Our Police Service needs more resource to deal with criminality and real life, quite frankly, in Northern Ireland.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
I thank my colleague for that intervention. He, too, has raised very legitimate points about the cost of all that. In today's constrained budgets, we know how needed those pounds and pence are in other places. I fear that the Bill will not only lead to more disruption and community tension but the costs will be — in…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
Further to the point that was raised by the Member for North Antrim, not only is there an issue around the administration of the provisions but, as we have said previously, there is the issue of enforcement. We know that, when the police have had to remove controversial bonfires, it has cost hundreds of thousands of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Display of Flags and Emblems Bill: Second Stage
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