Order Paper

Reference: OP 99-22/27

Date: 06 May 2025

 

The Assembly to sit at 10.30am.

 

1. Prayers

 

2. Members' Statements

 

3. Public Petition

Safe Crossing for Children at Ashgrove Roundabout

Miss Nuala McAllister

 

4. Executive Committee Business

Motion: The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Extension of Provisions Relating to Live Links for Courts and Tribunals) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

Proposed:

That the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Extension of Provisions Relating to Live Links for Courts and Tribunals) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 be approved.

Minister of Justice

Motion: The Coronavirus Act 2020 (Registration of Deaths and Still-Births) (Extension) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

Proposed:

That the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Registration of Deaths and Still-Births) (Extension) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 be approved.

Minister of Finance

Motion: The draft Period Products (Department for Communities Specified Public Service Bodies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Proposed:

That the draft Period Products (Department for Communities Specified Public Service Bodies) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 be approved.

Minister for Communities

 

5. Question Time

5.1 Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

 

6. Private Members' Business

Motion: Review of Local Councils' Animal Welfare Policies

Proposed:

That this Assembly believes in the highest standard of welfare for dogs in Northern Ireland; commends the work of the Dogs Trust and many other rehoming organisations and charities; expresses concern at the lack of support and oversight from the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs regarding enforcement of animal welfare legislation by local councils; is alarmed at the policy of euthanising healthy dogs after just five days if they are not reclaimed; supports the Dogs Trust's calls for legislation to ensure that all animal welfare establishments, including dog pounds, are licensed and have regular unannounced inspections; and calls on the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to review local councils' dog pound and kennelling policies, including the euthanising of healthy dogs and bringing forward a standardised approach across all councils.

Mr Colin Crawford

Mr Robbie Butler

Mr Doug Beattie

Mrs Diana Armstrong

Motion: Voting Rights for the Election of the President of Ireland

Proposed:

That this Assembly notes that the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement recognises the birth right of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both; recalls that, in November 2013, the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution recommended to give citizens resident outside the State the right to vote in presidential elections; further notes that Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland can stand for, and be elected as, President of Ireland but cannot vote in presidential elections; and calls on the Irish government to implement the recommendation of the Convention on the Constitution with regards to voting rights in presidential elections, thereby extending the right to vote in elections for President of Ireland to all Irish citizens on the island of Ireland.

Mrs Sinéad Ennis

Mr Declan Kearney

Mr Pat Sheehan

Ms Emma Sheerin

 

7. Adjournment

  • Pedestrianisation of Hill Street, Belfast

Mr Matthew O'Toole