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  1. Debate contribution: Road Safety Strategy

    • Ms Liz Kimmins SF
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I am glad that the Member has raised that issue. As we know, drug-driving is an increasing concern. The current legal framework for tackling drug-driving in the North is based on proven impairment, an approach that has changed little over many decades. As drug-use patterns, technologies and enforcement methods have…

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  3. Debate contribution: Road Safety Strategy

    • Ms Liz Kimmins SF
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    In response to the Member's initial question, I outlined the broad range of interventions that I have been making and continue to make and those that I plan to make in the future. There is no single intervention that has an impact across the board, and that is why we need to have a collaborative approach with the Road…

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  4. Debate contribution: Road Safety Strategy

    I thank the Minister for her response. Minister, given that every one of those deaths represents a family that has been left devastated, will you set out what specific intervention your Department has identified as the most effective in reducing road deaths? Has such a measure been implemented on the highest-risk…

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  5. Debate contribution: Road Safety Strategy

    • Ms Liz Kimmins SF
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Just bear with me a second, Mr Speaker. Apologies. So far this year, 48 people have lost their lives on our roads. Road safety remains a key priority for me. My thoughts are, first, with the families and friends who have been for ever changed by the devastation of losing a loved one on our roads. The work of the…

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

    I think that you made the same point as me, so I will let that stand. I do not want to go on past the lunch break. I commend the Member for what she is trying to do. I charge the Executive, and any incoming one, to address the issue in the right way. We are all sitting here as potential Members of the next Assembly.…

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

    They are overwhelmed, and the Bill would mean that they would be even more overwhelmed. For example, any of us in Belfast who have asked for speed bumps for areas will know that there is a list of hundreds of streets that want them. I think that, on average, one street gets done every year. Just because there is a…

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

    I slightly disagree. Yes, there is legislation in place, but it is not being implemented. Again, I maintain that the Bill is not the right vehicle, but it is important that we strengthen existing legislation in order to give statutory agencies the confidence to take down such flags. Alternatively, we need to direct…

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

    No. I will try to finish my contribution. I disagree slightly with Mr Gaston. This is not just about paramilitary flags. I take great exception to seeing the Union flag flying tattered from a lamp post. I would like to see such flags being removed much more swiftly, and even other flags. I will not say that I take…

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

    Mr Gaston articulates a lack of confidence in public services and in institutions generally. If we were to create any new commission, we would need to make sure that that would not happen.

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

    We have heard that the principles are right but that the vehicle is wrong. The Member has articulated that, because of its overarching responsibilities, the Executive Office should take the matter forward. Time and again, however, as the Member will know from her experience on the Executive Committee, which is a lot…

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

    Thanks very much for the intervention. I appreciate that both Members want me to vote with them. The difficulty for me is that, yes, I support the principles of the Bill, but the context is the Bill that has been drafted. We will not be able to change it in any substantive way that will make me content with it, so I…

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

    We are meant to be discussing the general principles of the Bill. I take on board the Member's point about there being a cross-departmental element involved in community relations — the Department for Communities and the Executive Office have responsibilities, for example — but an amendment could be tabled to have…

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

    The Member has spoken eloquently about the Bill. She has given a number of reasons for why she feels that it is not the right vehicle, yet she has said that she will abstain. I understand the wish to be balanced, but I encourage her to have the courage of her convictions, even though her reasons may differ from mine,…

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

    I thank the Member for giving way. I want to touch on her point about community relations, because that is really important. When we look at constituencies such as mine, we see that there have been good working relationships. When the Twelfth demonstration happened in Irvinestown, GAA flags that were up to celebrate a…

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

    I think so. The House has been criticised in the past for not writing good legislation. I have done that myself. I absolutely support the principle, but I do not support the vehicle. With reference to some of Mr Dickson's points, I fully expect, given that he has colleagues in the Executive, that he will use that…

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

    I thank the Member for giving way. I listened to the Member for East Antrim's point, but is that not an example of what I mentioned on a previous day of the debate, which was "Sir Humphrey" syndrome, whereby people say, "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do it"? That is not the way to…

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