Marshalled List of Amendments
22 September 2025
Item 4: Order Paper 119/22-27 - Monday 22 September 2025
Motion: A5 Western Transport Corridor Scheme
Proposed:
That this Assembly expresses regret that the Minister for Infrastructure and Executive colleagues failed to take the necessary actions to ensure that the A5 Western Transport Corridor scheme could withstand legal challenge; and calls on the Executive to ensure that the A5 scheme begins construction by the end of this Assembly mandate.
Leader of the Opposition
Amendment 1
Leave out all after 'Assembly' and insert:
'acknowledges that the Minister for Infrastructure and Executive colleagues worked together to address the recommendations following the Planning Appeals Commission A5 Inquiry ; welcomes the Department for Infrastructure serving a Notice of Appeal against the A5 judgment; further welcomes the confirmation by the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs that his department intends to apply to the court to formally intervene in the appeal; recognises the steadfast commitment of the A5 Enough is Enough campaign and the many families tragically bereaved as a result of collisions on the A5; and calls on the Executive to ensure that the A5 scheme begins construction by the end of this Assembly mandate.'
[Miss Nicola Brogan]
[Mr Declan McAleer]
[Mr Colm Gildernew]
[Mr Cathal Boylan]
Amendment 2 (mutually exclusive to amendment 1)
Leave out all after 'Minister for Infrastructure' and insert:
'failed to take the necessary actions to ensure that the A5 Western Transport Corridor scheme could withstand legal challenge; calls on the Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to present proposals to the Executive to amend aspirational net zero targets, ensuring major infrastructure projects are not stymied and construction of an agreed A5 scheme begins as soon as possible; further calls on the Minister of Finance to urgently commit to providing fair compensation to affected landowners for loss of income and costs of reinstatement; and calls on the Minister for Infrastructure, notwithstanding the Notice of Appeal against the A5 judgment, to implement fresh road safety measures on the A5 in order to prevent further loss of life.'
[Mr Tom Buchanan]
[Mr Gary Middleton]
[Mr Peter Martin]
[Mr Stephen Dunne]
Amendment 3 (mutually exclusive to amendments 1and 2)
Leave out all after 'Minister for Infrastructure' and insert:
'failed to take the necessary actions to ensure that the A5 Western Transport Corridor scheme could withstand legal challenge; calls on the Minister for Infrastructure to make saving lives on this road the absolute priority, while also treating landowners fairly and respectfully and to put in place other road safety measures and better public-transport options for the North West if the A5 faces further delays; and further calls on the Minister to ensure that commencement of an agreed legally compliant A5 scheme begins as soon as possible and to set out clearly how the project will stay within the carbon-budget limits required by law.'
[Mr Robbie Butler]
[Ms Diana Armstrong]
[Mr John Stewart]
Motion: The Executive's Approach to Hate
Proposed:
That this Assembly condemns the continued high occurrence of racist and sectarian motivated hate crime witnessed throughout Northern Ireland; believes the response from the Executive has been inadequate; and calls on the Executive to combat all forms of hate crime by introducing hate crime legislation by the end of this Assembly mandate, undertaking an immediate review of the Tackling Paramilitarism, Criminality and Organised Crime programme and providing additional resources to the courts and PSNI.
Leader of the Opposition
Amendment 1
Leave out all after 'Northern Ireland' and insert:
'notes the recent Executive commitment to working in partnership with the PSNI, civic leaders, community organisations and statutory bodies to ensure that our streets, neighbourhoods, and communities reflect the values of equality and respect; calls on the Minister of Justice to detail, and consult on, her plans to include a statutory aggravation offence model for hate crime in sentencing legislation due to be introduced during this Assembly mandate; and further calls on the Minister to provide additional resources to the Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunal Service, PSNI, and the Tackling Paramilitarism, Criminality and Organised Crime programme.'
[Mr Paul Frew]
[Mr Trevor Clarke]
Amendment 2 (mutually exclusive to amendment 1)
Leave out all after 'inadequate;' and insert:
'recognises that tackling hate and building safe, inclusive communities requires a whole-society approach; and calls on the Executive to combat all forms of hate crime by supporting the relevant provisions in the pending Sentencing Bill and Victims and Witnesses of Crime Bill, supporting the work undertaken across the statutory and community sector under the Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime, and providing additional resources to the justice system.'
[Ms Paula Bradshaw]
[Ms Connie Egan]
[Ms Sian Mulholland]
[Ms Kellie Armstrong]
