Order Paper

1. Prayers

2. Members’ Statements

3. Public Petition

Increase Carer’s Allowance in Northern Ireland

Mr Daniel McCrossan

4. Assembly Business

Motion: Committee Membership

Proposed:

That Mr Doug Beattie replace Mr Mike Nesbitt as a member of the Committee for the Economy.

Mr Robbie Butler
Mr Tom Elliott

5. Executive Committee Business

Motion: The draft Damages (Process for Setting Rate of Return) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024

Proposed:

That the draft Damages (Process for Setting Rate of Return) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 be approved.

Minister of Justice

6. Question Time

6.1 Justice

6.2 Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

7. Private Members’ Business

Motion: Promoting On Farm Investment

Proposed:

That this Assembly believes investment in new and replacement farm buildings is essential to improving agriculture’s environmental footprint in Northern Ireland; criticises the decision to drop the published Ammonia Standing Advice used by the NIEA to assess the air quality impacts associated with many planning applications; recalls that this decision was made without Ministerial approval or prior consultation; notes with concern recent research conducted by KMPG on behalf of the Northern Ireland agri-food industry, which found that more stringent ammonia regulation could lead to fewer successful planning applications, a 20 to 25 per cent decline in on farm investment and reduce family farm incomes by up to 38 per cent in some sectors; calls on the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to acknowledge that the investment in, and modernisation of, farm facilities will promote animal welfare and reduce future emissions; further calls on the Minister to reject policies which constrain plans to invest in and modernise farm facilities; and calls on the Minister to place the needs of primary producers and consultation with the agri-food industry at the forefront of any new ammonia strategy.

Miss Michelle McIlveen
Mr Tom Buchanan
Mr William Irwin

Motion: All-Island Cancer Research Co-operation

Proposed:

That this Assembly notes the recent report from the All-Island Cancer Research Institute on the state of the oncology research industry; recognises the need for greater cooperation in cancer research on the island of Ireland; further recognises that clinical experts in this field have stated that developing “Oncology Innovation Clusters” by pooling resources, could help to drive research and investment in oncology, domestically and internationally; calls on the Department of Health to engage meaningfully with the Department of Health in Dublin to consider opportunities for increasing North-South cooperation in delivering innovative research into cancer prevention, treatments and interventions on the island; and further calls on the Minister of Health to subsequently update the Committee for Health on that engagement.

Ms Liz Kimmins
Mrs Linda Dillon
Miss Órlaithí Flynn

8. Adjournment

Statements by Ministers may also be taken at any time subject to the Speaker’s approval.
Notice of Statements will appear on the Annunciator