Indicative Timings for Order of Business

Tuesday 18 November 2025

These timings are PURELY INDICATIVE

If an item of business concludes early, the next may be taken immediately.

 

ITEM OF BUSINESS

(TUESDAY)

MEMBER

TIME ALLOCATED BY BUSINESS COMMITTEE

ANTICIPATED TIME

Prayers

The Speaker

 

10.30 - 10.32

MEMBERS' STATEMENTS

 

Up to 30 mins

10.32 - 11.00

MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS

Strategic Roadmap on Rating Policy

 

Minister of Finance

 

Up to 1 hour

 

11.00 - 12.00

Changes to the Funding of New Social Housing

Minister for Communities

Up to 1 hour

12.00 - 12.45

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Further Consideration Stage: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill (NIA Bill 13/22-27)

Minister of Finance

*

 

12.45 - 1.00

 

LUNCH - BUSINESS COMMITTEE SCHEDULED TO MEET AT 1.00PM

   

QUESTION TIME

1. Education

   

2.00 - 2.45

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSINESS (cont'd)

Further Consideration Stage: Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill (NIA Bill 13/22-27) (cont'd)

Minister of Finance

*

2.45 - 3.00

Motion: The draft Farm Sustainability Payment Scheme (Eligibility etc) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

*

3.00 - 3.30

Legislative Consent Motion: Pension Schemes Bill

Minister for Communities

*

3.30 - 4.00

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT (cont'd)

Response to the Report of the Independent Review of the Liquor Licensing System including the Surrender Principle

Minister for Communities

Up to 1 hour

4.00 - 4.45

PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS

Motion: Review of Northern Ireland's Fireworks Legislation

Mr Doug Beattie

Mr Robbie Butler

Mr Jon Burrows

Ms Diana Armstrong

Up to 1 hour 45 mins

4.45 - 6.30

Motion: Delivering Better Cancer Services and Outcomes

Mrs Diane Dodds

Mr Alan Robinson

Up to 1 hour 45 mins

6.30 - 8.15

ADJOURNMENT

The Urgency of Delivering the Birch Hill Centre for Mental Health

Mr Declan Kearney

Up to 1 hour

8.15 - 9.15