Order Paper
Date: 09 September 2025
Indicative timings for order of business.
Marshalled List of Amendments.
The Assembly to sit at noon.
1. Prayers
2. Members' Statements
3. Executive Committee Business
Legislative Consent Motion: Mental Health Bill
Proposed:
That this Assembly endorses the principle of extending the amendment to the UK Mental Health Bill to Northern Ireland, to ensure private providers delivering publicly funded mental health services are accountable under the Human Rights Act 1998, insofar as the provisions of that amendment relate to matters falling within the legislative competence of the Assembly and agrees to the amendment's extension to Northern Ireland.
Minister of Health
4. Question Time
5. Committee Business
Motion: Extension of Committee Stage - Adult Protection Bill (NIA Bill 16/22-27)
Proposed:
That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 27 March 2026, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Adult Protection Bill.
Chairperson, Committee for Health
6. Private Members' Business
Motion: End the Forced Starvation in Gaza
Proposed:
That this Assembly notes with deep concern the declaration of famine in Gaza by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) with half a million people, a quarter of Palestinians in Gaza, suffering from famine; further notes the IPC's assessment that this situation is entirely man-made and the assessment by the Head of Emergency Relief at the UN that it is a result of systematic obstruction by Israel; condemns Israel's use of starvation as a weapon of war; further condemns the targeting and killing by Israeli forces of hundreds of Palestinians desperately trying to access aid through the discredited, US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation; and calls for an immediate ceasefire, an end to ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing, the immediate and unconditional supply of all required humanitarian aid to Gaza, the release of all hostages and the upholding of human rights and international law.
Mr Pat Sheehan
Mr Declan Kearney
Ms Emma Sheerin
Motion: Saving Lough Neagh
Proposed:
That this Assembly expresses grave concern at the return of blue-green algae at Lough Neagh and other sites across Northern Ireland; acknowledges the severe environmental, economic and societal impacts, including the closure of eel fishing this year; expresses regret at the misguided support for a motion calling for a public consultation on the Nutrients Action Programme to be withdrawn; and calls on the Executive to support all necessary actions aimed at rescuing the UK and Ireland's largest freshwater lake.
Mr Matthew O'Toole
Mr Colin McGrath
Mr Daniel McCrossan
7. Adjournment
- The Future of Services at South West Acute Hospital
Mrs Diane Dodds
