Order Paper

Reference: OP 292/11-16

Date: 14 September 2015

The Assembly to sit at noon.

Indicative Timings for the Order of Business

1. Prayers

2. Assembly Business

Motion: Committee Membership

Proposed:

That Mr Danny Kennedy replace Mr Ross Hussey as a member of the Committee for Education; and that Mr Danny Kennedy replace Mr Robin Swann as a member of the Assembly and Executive Review Committee.

Mr R Swann
Mrs S Overend

Motion: Committee Membership

Proposed:

That Mr Phil Flanagan be appointed a member of the Committee for Social Development; that Mr Conor Murphy replace Mr Daithí McKay as a member of the Public Accounts Committee; that Mr Daithí McKay be appointed a member of the Committee for  Health, Social Services and Public Safety; that Ms Bronwyn McGahan replace Mr Chris Hazzard as a member of the Committee for Justice; and that Mr Chris Hazzard replace Ms Bronwyn McGahan as a member of the Committee for the Office of First Minister and deputy First Minister.

Ms C Ruane
Mr R McCartney

3. Question Time

3.1 Agriculture and Rural Development

3.1.1 Topical Questions

3.2 Culture, Arts and Leisure

3.2.1 Topical Questions

4. Private Members’ Business

Motion: Multiple Deprivation Indicators

Proposed:

That this Assembly recognises that the current multiple deprivation indicators do not accurately identify the extent of poverty and deprivation in rural areas; and calls on the Minister of Finance and Personnel to review this urgently.

Mr D McAleer
Mr O McMullan
Mr I Milne

Motion: Increasing Free Childcare

Proposed:

That this Assembly notes the 2014 Employers for Childcare survey which indicated that 46 per cent of parents in Northern Ireland reduced their working hours or left work due to a lack of affordable childcare; recognises that greater childcare provision would be a key catalyst in bolstering the economy, retaining a skilled workforce and improving the lives of working families; further notes that the Childcare Bill announced in the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s July Budget will increase free preschool childcare entitlement for three and four-year-olds to 30 hours a week in England; and calls for the establishment of an equal 30 hours of free childcare locally as part of a move towards the establishment of an universal childcare model. 

Mr P McGlone
Mr S Rogers
Ms C Hanna

5. Adjournment