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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
Would you explain that?
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I thank the Member for giving way. Does she accept that the Bill does not explicitly demarcate between a terrorist flag and, for example, the Union flag? There is no clear demarcation between them in the legislation.
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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
The Bill supports people being able to have celebrations and commemorations, but they have to be time-bound. Do you know what I mean? If flags are up for too long, there is a demarcation. There has to be an expectation that greenways that have had significant public money spent on them should be open to everybody.…
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 wanted to intervene in order to give some context to the complexity of the matter. I understand what you are saying; the greenway can be used by many people for dog walking, cycling and all of that. However, it could not be closer to houses in loyalist working-class communities. Before the greenway was there, flags…
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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 just finish my point. In that instance, people could express their concerns about flags going up in the area. It would be up to the Department, then, to apply the public interest test. As is outlined specifically in the Bill, the Department would have to take the views of people who live in the vicinity and…
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
That is a public park, which leads people to areas. It is a lovely resource in the community. In that instance —.
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 Comber greenway is a good example. That should not be demarcated for one section of the community or the other, in my opinion. If it is on a traditional marching route during the marching season, of course, there should be accommodation in that community for flags to go up.
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. Given what she said, I will draw on two examples from my constituency. Your East Belfast colleague on your Benches will be familiar with an example from Ballyhackamore. I will not labour the point, but there is a street where Union Jacks go up around the time of the parade that…
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
That is completely true, and it is not a threat when people know who has put the flags up. We hear time and time again from businesses at the Inns Cross, in Finaghy and on the Lisburn Road that the issue is not national identity or the flag itself but that, so often, they do not know who has put the flags up and what…
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
Will the Member give way?
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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 close on this point and conclude it later. The Member is acknowledging that the national flag will be encompassed in the legislation. Is that a fair point?
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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 go into the specifics of the clause, and hopefully I will be able to address that. Fundamentally, as I have said, this gives people an opportunity to act voluntarily. It is not a notification system. People can go on to the online portal that is featured in one of the clauses to say, "We're going to put flags…
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 will address the issue in my remarks. The examples that she cites are examples around which we could all unite. However, I asked a question about national flags. Clause 1(2) states: "For the purposes of this Act, it is in the public interest to remove a flag or emblem if, in the…
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 referred to national flags. If a national flag or emblem is found, under clause 1(3)(a), to be "offensive, abusive, or insulting" — a flag may be perceived to be such, as we know that national flags have different connotations for different people living 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 beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I have been working on the Bill for nearly a decade. In that time, we have had two prolonged periods of suspension of the Assembly; a global pandemic that, rightly, skewed our focus here; and the publication of the report of the Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and…
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
Go raibh maith agat, a Phríomh-LeasCheann Comhairle. As Chair of the Committee for Communities, I seek the support of the House for the motion to extend the Committee Stage of the Charities (Amendment) Bill until 11 December 2026. The Bill was introduced on 15 June and completed its Second Stage on 23 June, when it…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Charities (Amendment) Bill: Extension of Committee Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Charities (Amendment) Bill: Extension of Committee Stage
Go raibh maith agat. I thank all Members who contributed to the debate and all members of the Committee. As I said in my opening remarks, I very much appreciate the engagement of the Committee on this matter. I have no doubt that the Committee will continue to have an interest, and I will welcome its continued…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
The initialism "RHI" has become infamous in Northern Ireland politics, but it has also become synonymous with a declining public confidence in the Assembly to deliver for the people of Northern Ireland. I am pleased to have seen that be rectified during my time on the Economy Committee. I am pleased that the scheme…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
We also support the regulations and the final closure of the RHI scheme. It has been a long and extremely difficult chapter for the Department and for the Assembly. The damage caused to confidence in this place is not to be underestimated. I also thank the Minister for bringing this through to closure. I never thought…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
Ten years after the DUP ineptitude and arrogance around the RHI debacle, which collapsed these institutions, I welcome the work that has been done by the Sinn Féin Minister for the Economy, Caoimhe Archibald, to close the RHI scheme. I associate myself with Phillip's remarks, as Chair of the Committee, in noting the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
The SDLP welcomes the fact that we have finally reached the point at which the RHI scheme can be closed. It has taken far too long — that needs to be said again and again — but the regulations allow us to draw a line under a scheme that has cast a long shadow over government in this place. We recognise the work that…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Closure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
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