Order Paper
Date: 10 March 2025
The Assembly to sit at noon.
1. Prayers
2. Members’ Statements
3. Executive Committee Business
Motion: The Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025
Proposed:
That the Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 be affirmed.
Minister of Finance
Motion: The Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025
Proposed:
That the Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 be affirmed.
Minister of Finance
Motion: The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025
Proposed:
That the Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025 be affirmed.
Minister of Finance
4. Question Time
5. Private Members’ Business
Motion: Importance of Children’s One-Year-Old Health Review
Proposed:
That this Assembly commends the vital role that health visitors play in supporting the health and development of children under the age of five; expresses alarm that 15 per cent of children in Northern Ireland were not seen by a health visitor for their year 1 review in 2023-24; notes with deep concern that this figure rose to 46 per cent in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust; highlights the critical need to end regional inequalities in the provision of child health reviews in order to ensure that every child and young person has the best start in life; and calls on the Minister of Health to urgently work with all Health and Social Care Trusts to drive down the number of health reviews that take place outside of the accepted timeframes or not at all.
Mrs Diane Dodds
Mr Alan Robinson
Motion: Paramilitary Groups Transition from Violence and Crime
Proposed:
That this Assembly categorically opposes proposals from the UK and Irish Governments to appoint an independent expert to scope out a new process of engagement to bring about paramilitary group transition to disbandment; agrees that, more than 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, there is no place for paramilitarism in our society, and that such groups should either immediately disband or face a robust law enforcement approach like other organised crime gangs; welcomes the work of the Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime; and calls on the UK and Irish Governments to abandon plans for this scoping and engagement exercise and reinvest the associated funding in law enforcement approaches to paramilitary activity.
Ms Paula Bradshaw
Mr Stewart Dickson
Ms Connie Egan
Miss Nuala McAllister
