Marshalled list of Amendments
9 September 2024
Item 6: Order Paper 46/22-27 – Monday 9 September 2024
Motion: Making the Case for Additional Policing Resources
Proposed:
That this Assembly supports the Chief Constable in his campaign to secure additional resources for the PSNI; notes with growing concern the serious pressures facing local and neighbourhood policing, crime investigations and rank and file officers as a result of chronic underfunding; highlights that the Chief Constable and his officers have a statutory responsibility to protect life and property, preserve law and order, and prevent the commission of offences; deplores recent correspondence issued by the Department of Justice criticising the PSNI’s efforts to secure extra funding from the UK Government; shares the Police Federation’s view that this was an attempt to gag, embarrass and chastise the Chief Constable; calls on the Minister of Justice to apologise; and further calls on the Minister to urgently recommit to reversing the decline in police funding and police officer numbers.
Mr Trevor Clarke
Ms Cheryl Brownlee
Mr Keith Buchanan
Amendment 1
Leave out all after ‘offences;’ and insert:
'strongly disagrees with any rebuke about the approach of the Chief Constable to the Prime Minister; re-endorses the recommendation in the Patten Report that the number of full time police officers should be 7,500, with the ambition of increasing that number further; endorses the Chief Constable's assessment that since 2010 the policing budget has experienced a fall in real terms of 29 per cent; and calls on the Minister of Justice, the Executive and the British Government to work with the NI Policing Board and the PSNI to urgently provide the funding to comprehensively address these structural deficits in the 2024-25 financial year and the subsequent years of this Assembly mandate."
[Mr Mark Durkan]
[Mr Colin McGrath]
Amendment 2
Leave out all after ‘chastise the Chief Constable;’ and insert:
‘calls on the Minister of Justice to apologise and to urgently recommit to reversing the decline in police funding and police officer numbers; and further calls on the UK Government to urgently commit to increased, ring-fenced funding, for the PSNI through the additional security funding mechanism to stop the decline in police numbers and to support the Northern Ireland Office on matters of national security.’
[Mr Alan Chambers]
[Mr Doug Beattie]
[Mr Robbie Butler]
[Mr Colin Crawford]
Motion: Replacement of EU Funding for Community and Voluntary Sector
Proposed:
That this Assembly acknowledges the positive impact that the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund have had on our society; notes British Government failure to deliver on the commitment to fully replace EU funding after Brexit; further notes that the previous British Government's Shared Prosperity Fund does not constitute the full replacement of EU funding; recognises the uncertainty for community and voluntary sector organisations regarding the continuation of the Shared Prosperity Fund post 2025; and calls on the current British Government to fulfil its promise to replace EU funding in full and to provide certainty for community and voluntary sector organisations beyond March 2025.
Mr Colm Gildernew
Ms Ciara Ferguson
Miss Áine Murphy
Amendment 1
Leave out all after ‘post 2025;’ and insert:
‘calls on the current Government to fulfil the promise to replace EU funding in full and to provide certainty for community and voluntary sector organisations beyond March 2025; and further calls on the Minister of Finance to make it clear to the Government that future programmes must be developed with due regard to the Executive's agreed priorities, and with meaningful input from local Ministers, in order to maximise opportunities for communities and projects across Northern Ireland.’
[Ms Diane Forsythe]
[Mr Paul Frew]
