Order Paper
Date: 23 March 2026
The Assembly to sit at noon.
Indicative timings for order of business.
1. Prayers
2. Members’ Statements
3. Executive Committee Business
Motion: The draft Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
Proposed:
That the draft Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 be approved.
Minister for the Economy
4. Question Time
5. Private Members’ Business
Second Stage: Areas with Natural Constraints (Payments) Bill (NIA Bill 24/22-27)
Mr Declan McAleer
Motion: Tackling Waste and Inefficiency in Government
Proposed:
That this Assembly recognises the need to drive efficiency and tackle wasteful spending across the public sector; notes with concern recent Northern Ireland Audit Office reports which found that delivery of major capital projects and reform of the Northern Ireland Civil Service workforce has not achieved value for money; expresses alarm at levels of spending by Executive Departments on arm’s-length bodies, agency staff, legal costs, hospitality and external consultants; criticises the use of public money to advance transgender ideology; highlights the Scottish Government’s commitment to reduce public body corporate and core government operating costs by approximately 20 per cent by 2030; calls on the Minister of Finance to agree mandatory, rolling efficiency targets for day-to-day spending by every Executive Department; and further calls on the Minister to seek Executive agreement on a presumption against the creation of new public bodies.
Ms Diane Forsythe
Mr Brian Kingston
Mr Harry Harvey
