Marshalled List of Amendments - 21 September 2015

17 September 2015

Private Members’ Business – Motions

Item 6: Order Paper 294/11-16 –  21 September  2015

Motion: Crisis in Agriculture

That this Assembly notes with concern the crisis facing all sectors of agriculture across Northern Ireland; recognises the need to deliver significant change in the short term and into the future; and calls on the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development to do more for the industry by ensuring basic payments are issued to farmers in early December 2015, lobbying the EU Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, to raise dairy intervention prices as a matter of urgency and bringing forward a wider strategy to deal with the immediate challenges facing the industry.

[Mr W Irwin]
[Mr T Buchanan]
[Mr E Poots]
[Mr S Anderson]

The Speaker has selected the following Amendment for debate:

Amendment 1

Leave out all after the first ‘industry’ and insert:

‘by availing of the important permission from the European Commission to make up to 70 per cent of advance Basic Payments from October 2015, lobbying the EU Agriculture Commissioner to raise dairy intervention prices as a matter of urgency and bringing forward a specific set of action points to deal with the immediate challenges facing the industry.’

[Mrs J Dobson]
[Mr R Swann]