Marshalled List of Amendments - 11 October 2016

7 October 2016

Private Members' Business

Item 3: Order Paper 21/16-21 – Tuesday 11 October 2016

Motion: Racial Equality Strategy

That this Assembly recognises the positive contribution that ethnic minorities make to our
society; notes with concern an increase of 87 per cent in hate-related crime in the last four
years; and calls on all Ministers to continue to give priority to implementing the Racial Equality Strategy and the Together: Building a United Community Strategy, and to providing the financial support to ensure that both of these strategies are supported and implemented.

[Mr S Lynch]
[Ms C Archibald]
[Mr C Boylan]
[Mr P McGuigan]

The Speaker selected the following Amendment for debate:

Amendment 1

Leave out all after 'four years;' and insert:

'further notes the concerns of bodies representing ethnic minorities that gaps exist in our racial discrimination laws; and calls on the Executive to fulfil their responsibility to implement the Racial Equality Strategy effectively by putting in place an action plan, timetable and key priorities, and to ensure that the Programme for Government reflects this obligation.'

[Mr D Beattie]
[Mr M Nesbitt]

Motion: Healthier Lifestyles for Children

That this Assembly encourages school children to live a healthier lifestyle; acknowledges that following the introduction of a levy on drinks with a high sugar content, an estimated £18 million will be allocated from the Treasury to the Executive's budget in 2018; and calls on the Minister of Finance to ring-fence this money to fund an educational awareness and physical education programme in schools to benefit the long-term health of our children and to ease pressure on the Health Service.

[Ms C Lockhart]
[Mr P Logan]
[Ms P Bradley]

The Speaker selected the following Amendment for debate:

Amendment 1

Leave out from '2018;' and insert:

'notes with concern that only approximately six percent of pupils in each primary year are accessing two or more hours physical education per week; calls on the Minister of Finance to ring-fence this money to fund an educational awareness and physical education programme in schools to benefit the long-term health of our children and to ease pressure on the Health Service; and further calls on the Minister of Education to improve the monitoring and reporting of physical education hours per week accessed by primary pupils and to issue a public consultation on the introduction of a statutory obligation on schools to facilitate an appropriate minimum amount of physical education hours per week for primary school pupils.'

[Mr C Lyttle]
[Ms P Bradshaw]
[Mr S Dickson]

 

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