Marshalled List of Amendments
29 September 2025
Item 6: Order Paper 121/22-27 - Monday 29 September 2025
Motion: Endometriosis Care
Proposed:
That this Assembly notes that endometriosis is a serious, chronic inflammatory disease affecting at least one in ten women across the island, with evidence suggesting the number may be higher; further notes the disease often causes severe pelvic pain, infertility, internal scarring, and damage to multiple organs, yet it takes an average of eight to nine years for patients to receive a diagnosis; acknowledges that the neglect of endometriosis care highlights wider systemic failures in women's healthcare; recognises that international best practice confirms that specialist-led excision surgery, delivered within a multidisciplinary model of care, provides the best outcomes; calls on the Minister of Health to urgently look at the potential for specialist services with targets for diagnosis and treatment; and further calls on the Minister to engage with his Ministerial counterpart in Dublin to develop a joined-up cross-border approach to endometriosis care which can harness the relevant medical expertise on the island for better women's health outcomes.
Mrs Linda Dillon
Mr Philip McGuigan
Miss Órlaithà Flynn
Amendment
At end insert:
'; and calls on the Minister to urgently bring forward the Women's Health Action Plan.'
[Miss Nuala McAllister]
[Mr Danny Donnelly]
Motion: Addressing the Failure to Deliver a Northern Ireland Aviation Strategy
Proposed:
That this Assembly notes with concern the ongoing failure of the Department for the Economy to develop and publish an aviation policy or strategy for Northern Ireland; highlights that this delay is holding back economic development, undermining opportunities for investment, tourism, and business competitiveness; stresses that airports across Northern Ireland each have a vital role to play in promoting export growth; further stresses that any future aviation strategy must treat all airports equitably; calls on the Minister for the Economy to publish a comprehensive aviation strategy for Northern Ireland, including measurable targets and specific proposals for a route development fund, within the next three months; and further calls on the Minister to outline what progress has been made towards increasing the value ofexternal sales from 45 per cent to 60 per cent of GDP by 2030, as envisaged by the Northern Ireland Export Forum.
Mr Phillip Brett
Mr Gary Middleton
Mr Jonathan Buckley
Amendment
Leave out all after'must treat all' and insert:
'main Northern Ireland airports equitably; calls on the Minster for the Economy to put priority on promotion of travel to Northern Ireland through our own airports and direct Tourism NI and our representatives on Tourism Ireland to ensure that Dublin Airport is not being promoted over Belfast International and Belfast City Airports; further calls on the Minister to engage with United States officials on the establishment of an immigration and customs pre-clearance facility for the United States of America at Belfast International Airport; and calls on the Minister to promote the facilities at Belfast International Airport in order to increase the number of trans-Atlantic cargo flights and encourage greater use of the airport by the United States Government.'
[Dr Steve Aiken]
[Ms Diana Armstrong]
[Mr Robbie Butler]
