Order Paper
Date: 31 March 2025
Indicative timings for order of business
The Assembly to sit at noon.
1. Prayers
2. Members’ Statements
3. Executive Committee Business
Motion: The draft Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025
Proposed:
That the draft Recognition of Professional Qualifications and Implementation of International Recognition Agreements (Amendment) (Extension to Switzerland etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 be approved.
Minister of Finance
4. Question Time
5. Private Members’ Business
Motion: Housebuilding on Public Land
Proposed:
That this Assembly recognises the critical role of social and affordable housing in reducing housing need, supporting communities and strengthening the economy; notes the Department for Communities’ commitment to deliver at least 33,000 social homes under the Housing Supply Strategy; acknowledges the need to secure suitable land for housebuilding to meet this goal; recognises the potential of utilising public land to increase the supply of social and affordable housing; and calls on the Minister for Communities to establish a Public Land Agency to maximise the use of public land for the delivery of sustainable and affordable housing to help meet the Housing Supply Strategy targets.
Mr Mark Durkan
Mr Colin McGrath
Ms Cara Hunter
Motion: Early Access to State Pension for Terminally Ill People
Proposed:
That this Assembly believes that people diagnosed with a terminal illness should not be forced to endure financial hardship as they approach the end of their life; calls on the British Government to allow those diagnosed with a terminal illness to access their state pension early, providing them with financial security and dignity in their final months; and further calls on the Minister for Communities to engage with the Department for Work and Pensions to advocate for, and facilitate, the necessary legislative and administrative changes to make early access to state pensions a reality for terminally ill people.
Mrs Linda Dillon
Miss Nicola Brogan
Mr Colm Gildernew
Mr Philip McGuigan
