Marshalled List of Amendments
Tuesday 25 November 2025
Item 6 - Order Paper 136/22-27 - Tuesday 25 November 2025
Motion: The Executive's Multi-Year Budget Proposed:
That this Assembly recognises the need for the first multi-year Budget in more than a decade, to support long-term planning, improve certainty on public service funding and public sector pay and provide clarity on infrastructure investment; acknowledges that the forthcoming Autumn Budget will impact Executive plans; notes statements by Ministers on the insufficiency of funding, and also the absence of any concrete plans by the Executive to better fund public services through existing revenue tools or new devolved fiscal powers; and calls on the Minister of Finance to bring forward a draft multi-year budget which includes options for new devolved fiscal powers and other innovative means of funding public services in Northern Ireland, which is fully aligned to the priorities outlined in the Programme for Government, before 9 December 2025.
Leader of the Opposition
Amendment
Leave out all after 'insufficiency of funding' and insert:
'; notes the overspend and delay on the delivery of major capital projects; believes that public sector transformation is required to deliver clear value for money; and calls on the Minister of Finance to bring forward a draft multi-year budget which is fully aligned to the priorities outlined in the Programme for Government, as soon as possible.'
[Ms Diane Forsythe]
[Mr Brian Kingston]
[Mr Harry Harvey]
Motion: Policing Resources
That this Assembly notes the recent report from the office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland into the handling of a high profile child sex offender case, which found that the PSNI did not have the capacity or capability to manage the risk posed; expresses grave concern about the implications of these findings for the protection of children and for wider ambitions to tackle violence against women and girls; regrets that police officer numbers continue to fall, even after the restoration of the Executive; expresses concern that sufficient funding has not yet been secured to support police recruitment and workforce recovery; and calls on the Minister of Justice to set out what steps she is taking to support recruitment and retention, including measures to ensure that the PSNI better reflects the society it serves.
Leader of the Opposition
Amendment 1
Leave out all after 'fall' and insert:
'following the Chief Constable's workforce Recovery Plan endorsed by the Minister of Justice and the Executive; expresses concern that the agreed funding to increase the PSNI headcount to 7,000 officers has not been made available, resulting in the PSNI being dangerously understaffed at around 6,100 officers and an available deployable workforce sitting at just over 4,500 officers; and calls on the Minister of Justice to outline how she intends to address this crisis in Northern Ireland policing, to provide an immediate update on the viability of the workforce Recovery Plan targets and what measures she will take to ensure the PSNI reflects the society it serves, including the recruitment of officers from ethnic minority communities.'
[Mr Doug Beattie]
[Mr Alan Chambers]
[Mr Jon Burrows]
[Mr Robbie Butler]
Amendment 2 (mutually exclusive to amendment 1)
After 'the Executive;' insert:
'recognises that whilst resourcing pressures have a significant impact on policing capacity, the way in which the PSNI determines investigative priorities must recognise, prioritise and more effectively tackle violence against women and girls;'
[Mrs Linda Dillon]
[Miss Deirdre Hargey]
[Mr Gerry Kelly]
