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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
You are not very well informed. First, it was a graphic that used the phrase "striking a balance". As I indicated, I want to see a balance so that sporting organisations such as Bredagh GAC and others can put them up for a time-bound period. The flag in the graphic is a prime example. It had been up for many years and…
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I am intrigued. I am not the Bill sponsor, but there is real merit in its being brought before the Assembly. The Member talks about influence and people being able to abuse a system, as he sees it. The truth is that there is no system at all at the minute. Does he understand that there are flags across this city and…
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I thank the Member for her thoughtful intervention. I will say clearly — it is perhaps an issue that Mr Burrows mentioned in his intervention — that there is a legitimate question about what the police are doing, especially when we talk about the flags of proscribed organisations and how they impact on local…
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The Member just mentioned civil servants being arbiters: civil servants are already arbiters. Every year, constituents complain to me about the flags of proscribed organisations being erected on flagpoles in my constituency. They want them removed, but DFI will not do it. It has taken the decision that those flags are…
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Will you give me an example from those that I cited of where they were not on public land or DFI property?
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I am confused, to say the least. First, I invited the Member to make an intervention. Secondly, it is not the place for the Minister to intervene with the Member who was asked to make an intervention. Maybe it is just me who is confused, but what confuses me most and what should perhaps concern everyone in the Chamber…
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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 will get to your point, but, first, I will go back. You asked about legislation: hopefully, I laboured the point enough that the flags commission — FICT — called for stand-alone legislation to tidy this up. Unlike others, even government Departments, I looked at what came out of the flags commission and am taking…
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Just let me progress, if you will. I think that we are now on level terms with interventions, but there is perhaps another one to come before my contribution is over. Members, ask yourselves this: why do we need another layer of legislation? Why do we need a new online portal for reporting? We are told that…
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I thank the Member for her intervention. I respectfully say that it is the Member who is missing my point, because she will find that, in these quarters, we have no truck — none whatsoever — with anybody who supports paramilitaries. In fact, when I talked about the review of current legislative provision, I…
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I make the point that some of this is in the terrorism legislation at Westminster. As I mentioned, we as a party have fed into the review, and we support the police's having more powers to take down flags etc. We are, however, still dependent on Westminster for that coming through. I would like Mr Buckley to reference…
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I thank the Member for her intervention. It is clearly one view. I hear Members to my right chuntering on about a very different position. That goes to the very heart of the argument. Northern Ireland already possesses a range of legal powers to deal with such issues. There is legislation in place for public order…
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 taking interventions. One clear example in North Belfast in past years is the erection of flags on Alloa Street, near Girdwood. The community there had made many strides in coming together for community relations, but the erection of a Union flag was used to clearly demarcate territory and was…
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Thank you. As I said, there is a plethora of legislation, but it is not acted on. The Bill places a clear duty on the Department to act in that regard. At the minute, on no such occasion does that occur.
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Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. As the very freshly appointed Chair of the Committee for Infrastructure, which is destined to scrutinise the Bill, I look forward to working with all the members of the Committee and, indeed, with the Department and the Minister to ensure that we can make some progress. It is fair to say…
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If there are concerns around whether it is DFI property, is the Member agreeable to the Minister's coming forward with amendments, should the legal services in her Department do that? Also, if parties see particular gaps in the legislation, would the Member be agreeable to strengthening it? Quite intimidatory banners…
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That is an important clarification, because it is my reading — other Members have suggested the same — that DFI would be the lead Department, regardless of who owned the property. That is important. My concern in relation to that — I will come back to some of it in my remarks later — is on how we deal with it when 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
It is in the first sentence.
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My understanding of the Bill is that it requires DFI to become the lead Department in being responsible for taking down flags, billboards or whatever it might be, regardless of who owns the property.
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I want to get a wee bit of clarity on your last point. You said that DFI should take responsibility and that it is about the property within DFI's responsibility. My understanding of the Bill is that it relates to all property, regardless of whether it is DFC or DOJ. It is not just DFI property specifically. I just…
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