An academic who co-chaired the flags commission says he is 'disappointed' by the lack of progress.
An £800,000 Stormont report aimed at addressing disputes over flags and bonfires has not been implemented almost three years since it was published.was released in December 2021.The Executive Office said the FICT report will be considered as part of a review of its community relations strategy.Professor Dominic Bryan, co-chair of the commission, said he was "disappointed that it hasn't moved faster".
Stormont's Executive Office set up FICT in 2016 in an effort to tackle disagreements over a range of identity and cultural issues such as flags and bonfires. Alliance Party assembly member Paula Bradshaw, chair of the Executive Office scrutiny committee, expressed concern at the lack of progress. Its findings were finally presented to the Stormont executive in July 2020, but were not published until December 2021.
But it said there was "widespread agreement" on the elements of a possible "code of practice", such as keeping flags away from interfaces. "I would say that in most new-build properties, we are seeing restrictive covenants which are prohibiting the exhibition or display of flags or banners or emblems," he said.
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