In December, Belfast City Council voted to fly the flag only on designated days.
Currently councils with unionist majorities fly the Union flag either all year round or on designated days.
There's no sign of Belfast City Council overturning its decision to fly the flag just on designated days.
In a typical arrangement, each member of the carpool group takes a turn driving the others on designated days.
It would not alter the decision taken about flying the union flag on designated days at the city hall.
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Instead it came up with a compromise, suggesting that the Union flag should be flown only on designated days.
Of those interviewed, 44% backed the designated days policy, in comparison to 35% wanting the union flag raised throughout the year.
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Currently the flag flies at the civic centre on 17 designated days.
That evening, Belfast City Council voted to fly the union flag at the city hall on designated days only rather than every day.
However the Spotlight poll suggests raising the flag on 18 designated days is the most popular compromise across the community as a whole.
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The flag will now flying on designated days, rather than 365 days a year, following a compromise motion proposed by the Alliance Party.
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On flags, "For Everyone" says the designated days policy recently adopted by Belfast City Council should be applied to all public and civic buildings.
The party has proposed a motion that the Union flag be flown only on designated days- in line with the current flag policy at Stormont.
Mr McCrea had condemned the actions of the party's three Belfast councillors in voting against the practice of flying the union flag only on designated days.
Unionists support the proposal, which was made by DUP councillor Lee Reynolds in December, when the council voted to fly the flag only on designated days.
Alliance leader Naomi Long said her party's councillors had behaved responsibly in Belfast in taking advice on equality and voting that the union flag should be flown on designated days.
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Following Belfast City Council's decision at the start of December to fly the flag only on designated days the DUP has talked of increasing the number of days it flies at Stormont.
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On 3 December an Alliance Party compromise to fly the union flag at Belfast City Hall on designated days, rather than remove it altogether as Sinn Fein and SDLP proposed, was voted through.
Alliance's support for a "designated days" flag flying policy at Belfast City Hall stirred controversy and led to attacks on the party's offices and a death threat against its only MP, Naomi Long.
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Their central demand is for the decision to fly the union only on designated days to be reversed but the political make up of the council means there is little chance of that happening.
"For the past 10 years, since 2002, Craigavon Council has operated a 'designated days' policy agreed by all parties and a genuine review could conceivably propose the removal of all flags from public buildings, " he said.
This time the accusers are the beleaguered Alliance party, whose offices and councillors have come under attack over their decision to vote in favour of flying a Union flag on designated days only over Belfast City Hall.
She said that her party had already written to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to request that 1 July, the anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, be added to the list of designated days.
On Monday, at Belfast City Council, nationalist councillors had wanted the flag at Belfast City Hall taken down altogether, but they voted on a compromise from the Alliance party that it would fly on up to 20 designated days.
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But the Alliance party, which controls the balance of power on Belfast council, said the designated days option was in line with the recommendation from Northern Ireland's Equality Commission as an approach that would promote good relations between both sides.
Even though the designated days compromise got more support than any other option, just over half of those interviewed thought the union flag protestors were right to take to the streets when Belfast City Council made its decision in early December.
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In a statement, the Alliance Party said it was standing firmly behind its policy of flying the union flag at council headquarters on designated days and was called for the Northern Ireland Executive to legislate for this as a requirement for all councils.
Although the document doesn't explicitly state it, Alliance officials confirm that their preferred policy for all council buildings is to fly the union flag on designated days, which, if adopted, could create a stir in those western districts, which don't currently fly flags.
Most explanations of the Belfast union flag dispute have focussed on the manoeuvring by the city's councillors - how nationalists pushed for the flag's removal, unionists launched a leafleting campaign to put pressure on the Alliance, and Alliance stuck to its middle way of opting for designated days.
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