ORDER PAPER

TUESDAY 6 JUNE 2006

1. PRAYERS

2. SPEAKER’S BUSINESS

3. PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS

• Motion – Industrial Rating
  Proposed - That this Assembly, pending the restoration of a fully devolved Assembly and power-sharing Executive:

(a) calls on the Secretary of State to freeze the Industrial Rate at 25%;

(b) agrees with the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Focus Group that the introduction of full Industrial Rates as currently planned by the Government will lead to devastation in the manufacturing sector and the loss of thousand of jobs; and

(c) therefore calls on the Secretary of State to deliver on his undertaking to act upon the agreed position of all the political parties, and cap the Industrial Rate at 25%.

[Mr J Dallat]

4. ADJOURNMENT