Minutes of Proceedings
Session: 2012/2013
Date: 22 November 2011
Venue: Assembly Chamber
The Assembly met at 10.30am, the Speaker in the Chair.
1. Personal Prayer or Meditation
Members observed two minutes’ silence.
2. Executive Committee Business
2.1 Motion - Employment and Support Allowance (Work-related Activity) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011
Proposed:
That the Employment and Support Allowance (Work-related Activity) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 be approved.
Minister for Social Development
Debate ensued.
The Question being put, the Motion was carried without division.
2.2 Motion - The Land Registry (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011
Proposed:
That the Land Registry (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011 be affirmed.
Minister of Finance and Personnel
Debate ensued.
The Question being put, the Motion was carried without division.
2.3 Motion: The Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011
Proposed:
That the Registration of Deeds (Fees) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011 be affirmed.
Minister of Finance and Personnel
Debate ensued.
The Question being put, the Motion was carried without division.
3. Private Member’s Business
3.1 Motion: Rate Relief for Community and Amateur Sports Clubs
Proposed:
That this Assembly recognises the benefits which community and amateur sports clubs bring to local communities; notes the vital role which they play in encouraging participation in sporting activities and the contribution they make in promoting healthy lifestyles; and calls on the Minister of Finance and Personnel to raise the rate relief afforded to these clubs from 80 percent to 100 percent to ensure parity with equivalent clubs in other parts of the UK.
Mr R Swann
Mr L Cree
3.2 Amendment
Proposed:
Leave out all after ‘Personnel’ and insert:
‘to examine the rate relief afforded to these clubs.’
Mr S Hamilton
Mr A McQuillan
Mr W Humphrey
Mr D Hilditch
Debate ensued.
The Deputy Speaker (Mr Dallat) took the Chair.
The sitting was suspended at 12.32pm.
The sitting resumed at 2.00pm, with the Principal Deputy Speaker (Mr Molloy) in the Chair.
3. Question Time
3.1 Employment and Learning
Questions were put to, and answered by, the Minister for Employment and Learning, Dr Stephen Farry.
3.2 Enterprise, Trade and Investment
Questions were put to, and answered by, the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Mrs Arlene Foster.
4. Private Members’ Business (Cont’d)
4.1 Motion - Rate Relief for Community and Amateur Sports Clubs (Cont’d)
Debate resumed on the Motion.
The Question being put, the Amendment was made without division.
The Question being put, the Motion, as amended, was carried without division.
5. Adjournment
The Lord Morrow spoke to his topic on Flooding in the Clogher Valley.
The Deputy Speaker (Mr Beggs) took the Chair.
Proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
The Speaker
The Assembly adjourned at 3.41pm.
Mr William Hay
The Speaker
22 November 2011
Northern Ireland Assembly
Papers Presented to the Assembly on
22 November 2011
1. Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly
2. Bills of the Northern Ireland Assembly
3. Orders in Council
4. Publications Laid in the Northern Ireland Assembly
Probation Board for Northern Ireland Retention and Disposal Schedule 2011 (DCAL)
5. Assembly Reports
6. Statutory Rules
(The department identified after each rule is for reference purposes only)
