Marshalled List of Amendments - 9 February 2024
Private Members Business – Motions
Item 4: Order Paper 11/22-27 – Tuesday 13 February 2024
Motion: Women's Health Strategy
Proposed:
That this Assembly calls on the Minister of Health, working with his Executive colleagues, to bring forward, as a priority, a fully-budgeted Women’s Health Strategy that supports women through every stage of their lives, and is focused on education and awareness raising, screening and earlier diagnosis, and support services and care pathways; and further calls on the Minister and his Executive colleagues to include in this strategy a menopause clinic, earlier gynaecological cancer screening, a framework of support relating to fertility, birth control, pregnancy, baby loss and post-natal healthcare, an emphasis on menstrual health including long-term specialist support for endometriosis, and plans to tackle health inequalities experienced by women from different socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds.
Ms Kellie Armstrong
Miss Nuala McAllister
Ms Sian Mulholland
Ms Kate Nicholl
Amendment 1
Insert after ‘healthcare,’:
'a reduction of the gender gap in cardiovascular outcomes,'
[Mrs Linda Dillon]
[Ms Liz Kimmons]
Motion: Lough Neagh Rescue Plan
Proposed:
That this Assembly recognises the vital importance of Lough Neagh to our environment, ecology and drinking water supply; further recognises its importance to tourism, fishing and leisure activities in local communities surrounding the Lough; notes with grave concern the ecological damage caused by the blue-green algae bloom last summer that choked the Lough and spread throughout our waterways and beaches; calls for a cross-departmental body to be set up to address the immediate issues facing Lough Neagh; and further calls on the Executive to put in place a new management structure and plan to include input from communities and organisations with an interest in the welfare of the Lough, so that it can be managed, protected and promoted in the interest of all.
Mr Philip McGuigan
Mrs Linda Dillon
Mr Declan Kearney
Amendment 1
Insert after ‘cross-departmental body’:
‘, to include relevant non-governmental organisations,’
[Mr John Blair]
[Mr David Honeyford]
[Mr Eóin Tennyson]
[Ms Sorcha Eastwood]
[Mr Peter McReynolds]
[Ms Sian Mulholland]