Order Paper
Reference: OP 125/17-22
Date: 01 November 2021
Indicative Timings for the Order of Business
The Assembly to sit at noon.
1. Prayers
2. Members' Statements
3. Public Petition
Reassessing Contact Tracing in Schools
Mr Justin McNulty
4. Assembly Business
Motion: Committee Membership
Proposed:
That Mrs Deborah Erskine replace Mr Jonathan Buckley as a member of the Committee for Health; and that Mr Thomas Buchanan be appointed as a member of the Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.
Ms Joanne Bunting
Mr Trevor Clarke
Motion: Committee Membership
Proposed:
That Ms Aisling Reilly be appointed as a member of the Committee for Communities.
Mr John O'Dowd
Ms Sinéad Ennis
5. Executive Committee Business
Legislative Consent Motion: The Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill
Proposed:
That this Assembly endorses the extension to Northern Ireland of provisions to implement the remedy solution for age discrimination in public service pension schemes, and associated measures on scheme cost control, and judicial pensions and terms of office, in the Public Service Pensions and Judicial Offices Bill as introduced in the House of Lords on 19 July 2021.
Minister of Finance
6. Question Time
7. Committee Business
Motion: Extension of Committee Stage – Climate Change (No. 2) Bill (NIA Bill 28/17-22)
Proposed:
That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 28 January 2022, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Climate Change (No. 2) Bill.
Chairperson, Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Motion: Extension of Committee Stage – Organ and Tissue Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill (NIA Bill 30/17-22)
Proposed:
That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 21 January 2022, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Organ and Tissue Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill.
Chairperson, Committee for Health
Motion: Extension of Committee Stage – Autism (Amendment) Bill (NIA Bill 31/17-22)
Proposed:
That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 14 January 2022, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Autism (Amendment) Bill.
Chairperson, Committee for Health
Motion: Extension of Committee Stage – Small-Scale Green Energy Bill (NIA Bill 33/17-22)
Proposed:
That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 28 January 2022, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Small-Scale Green Energy Bill.
Chairperson, Committee for the Economy
8. Private Members' Business
Motion: A Ring-fenced Skills Fund for Northern Ireland
Proposed:
That this Assembly believes investing in the skills and talent of our workforce is integral to the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic; stresses the need to better equip those with low, or no, qualifications in order to tackle unemployment, inactivity and disadvantage in every corner of Northern Ireland; endorses the Department for the Economy's draft Skills Strategy for Northern Ireland: Skills for a 10x Economy, including plans to rebalance graduate and postgraduate qualifications towards STEM subjects and jobs of the future; highlights the potential benefits for growth sectors and levels of inward investment; supports the creation of a Skills Council for Northern Ireland to ensure businesses, education and trade unions have a strong voice; notes that delivering on the Skills Strategy will require the support of all Ministers as well as significant investment; and calls on the Minister of Finance to make available the necessary funding for a ring-fenced Skills Fund in Northern Ireland.
Mrs Diane Dodds
Mr Robin Newton
