Order Paper
Date: 10 March 2026
The Assembly to sit at 10.30am.
Indicative timings for order of business
1. Prayers
2. Members’ Statements
3. Public Petition
Protection of Christianity and Christian Ethos within our Schools
Mr David Brooks
4. Executive Committee Business
Motion: The draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026
Proposed:
That the draft Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) (Extension to Maritime Activities) Order 2026 be approved.
Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Motion: The Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
Proposed:
That the Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 be affirmed.
Minister of Finance
Motion: The Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
Proposed:
That the Rates (Temporary Rebate) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 be affirmed.
Minister of Finance
Motion: The Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026
Proposed:
That the Rates (Exemption for Automatic Telling Machines in Rural Areas) Order (Northern Ireland) 2026 be affirmed.
Minister of Finance
Final Stage: Budget Bill (NIA Bill 25/22-27)
Minister of Finance
Motion: The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
Proposed:
That the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 be affirmed.
Minister for Communities
Motion: Accelerated Passage – Hospital Parking Charges Bill
Proposed:
That the Hospital Parking Charges Bill proceed under the accelerated passage procedure.
Minister of Health
Second Stage: Hospital Parking Charges Bill
Minister of Health
5. Question Time
6. Private Members’ Business
Motion: Blocking of an Independent Environmental Protection Agency
Proposed:
That this Assembly strongly condemns the blocking of the establishment of an Independent Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) by the Democratic Unionist Party; further condemns the hypocrisy of those who express concern over the Lough Neagh crisis, the illegal dump at Mobuoy and wider environmental degradation, but refuse to support plans to enhance environmental accountability and safeguards; notes that a commitment to an IEPA was contained within the New Decade, New Approach Deal; agrees that it is undemocratic for an IEPA to be unilaterally vetoed by one party which represents a minority in the Assembly as a whole; and calls on the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to take meaningful steps to ensure that the commitment in New Decade, New Approach is implemented.
Mr John Blair
Mr Eóin Tennyson
7. Adjournment
- The Reopening of Slieve Gullion Cairn
Ms Aoife Finnegan
