Order Paper
Date: 01 July 2025
Indicative timings for order of business
The Assembly to sit at 10.30am.
1. Prayer
2. Members’ Statements
3. Executive Committee Business
Second Stage: Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill (NIA Bill 18/22-27)
Minister of Finance
Second Stage: Dilapidation Bill (NIA Bill 21/22-27)
Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Second Stage: Insolvency (Amendment) Bill (NIA Bill 20/22-27)
Minister for the Economy
Second Stage: Administrative and Finance Provisions Bill (NIA Bill 19/22-27)
Minister of Finance
Legislative Consent Motion: Animal Welfare (Import of Cats, Dogs and Ferrets) Bill
Proposed:
That this Assembly endorses the principle of the extension to Northern Ireland of the provisions within the Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill, as introduced in the House of Commons on 16 October 2024, which enables the making of legislation for the purpose of promoting the welfare of dogs, cats or ferrets, when bringing any of those animals into the United Kingdom.
Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
4. Question Time
5. Committee Business
Motion: New Standing Order
Proposed:
After Standing Order 18B insert:
18C. Executive Legislation Programme
(1) In each calendar year, time should be allocated for a debate on the programme of Executive legislation which Ministers intend to introduce to the Assembly during that session (‘the Legislation Programme’).
(2) The First Minister and deputy First Minister acting jointly should table a motion to debate the Legislation Programme.
(3) The motion referred to in paragraph (2) should be tabled within a period of 20 working days beginning with the first day on which the Business Committee meets following the summer recess.
(4) If a motion to debate the Legislation Programme is tabled, the Business Committee must select that motion for debate and a vote in the Assembly.
(5) The debate and vote on the Legislation Programme should take place within a period of 10 working days beginning with the day on which the motion is tabled.
(6) Where no motion to debate the Legislation Programme is tabled within the period set out in paragraph (3), the First Minister and deputy First Minister acting jointly should, as soon as is practicable, make an oral or written ministerial statement to the Assembly on the Legislation Programme.
(7) The statement referred to in paragraph (6) should –
(a) give reasons why a motion to debate the Legislation Programme has not been tabled, and
(b) set out a revised date for the tabling of a motion to debate the Legislation Programme in that calendar year.
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
