Order Paper
Reference: OP 46/22-27
Date: 09 September 2024
The Assembly to sit at noon.
1. Prayers
2. Members’ Statements
3. Assembly Business
Motion: Committee Membership
Proposed:
That Mrs Michelle Guy replace Ms Kate Nicholl as a member of the Committee for Education and as a member of the Assembly and Executive Review Committee; that Ms Kate Nicholl replace Ms Connie Egan as a member of the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee; and that Ms Kate Nicholl be appointed as a member of the Committee for the Economy.
Ms Paula Bradshaw
Miss Nuala McAllister
Mr Stewart Dickson
Mr John Blair
Motion: Committee Membership
Proposed:
That Mr Colin Crawford replace Mr Doug Beattie as a member of the Committee for the Economy.
Mr Robbie Butler
Lord Elliott
Motion: Committee Membership
Proposed:
That Mr Timothy Gaston replace Mr Pádraig Delargy as a member of the Committee for the Executive Office.
Business Committee
4. Executive Committee Business
Consideration Stage: Budget (No. 2) Bill (NIA Bill 06/22-27)
Minister of Finance
5. Question Time
6. Private Members’ Business
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
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
Mrs Ciara Ferguson
Miss Áine Murphy
7. Adjournment
