Order Paper
Date: 24 November 2025
The Assembly to sit at noon.
Indicative Timings for Order of Business.
Marshalled List of Amendments.
1. Prayers
2. Members' Statements
3. Assembly Business
Motion: Committee Membership
Proposed:
That Mr Cathal Boylan replace Ms Emma Sheerin as a member of the Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee; that Ms Emma Sheerin replace Miss Jemma Dolan as a member of the Audit Committee; that Ms Emma Sheerin replace Miss Jemma Dolan as a member of the Committee on Standards and Privileges; that Miss Jemma Dolan replace Ms Emma Sheerin as a member of the Committee for the Economy; that Mr Philip McGuigan replace Mr Maolíosa McHugh as a member of the Committee on Procedures; and that Mr Maolíosa McHugh replace Miss Nicola Brogan as a member of the Committee for Infrastructure. Mrs Sinéad Ennis Mr Philip McGuigan
4. Question Time
5. Committee Business
Motion: Extension of Committee Stage - RHI (Closure of Non-Domestic Scheme) Bill (NIA Bill 22/22-27)
Proposed:
That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 27 February 2026, in relation to the Committee Stage of the RHI (Closure of Non-Domestic Scheme) Bill. Chairperson, Committee for the Economy
Motion: Curriculum Mainstreaming and Strategy for Outdoor Learning in Schools
Proposed:
That this Assembly commends the Committee for Education's stakeholder engagement, partnership with Northern Ireland Forest School Association and research into outdoor education in schools; recognises the many inclusive learning and development benefits of outdoor education; further recognises the urgent need for all schools to have the opportunity to realise these benefits; and calls on the Minister of Education, by the end of 2026, to define and embed weekly, progressive and sustainable outdoor learning opportunities as a core component of the curriculum for pupils aged 3-18; and further calls on the Minister to develop, with the sector, an outdoor learning in schools strategy which regenerates this pedagogy by addressing systemic factors within the education system to do with leadership support, time, curriculum, policy and resourcing and to make it easy to go outdoors.
Chairperson, Committee for Education
6. Private Members' Business
Motion: Publication of the Joint Census
Proposed:
That this Assembly welcomes the Ireland and Northern Ireland: A joint census publication 2021-22 which provides analysis across a range of topics in areas such as demographics, households, religion, ethnicity, place of birth, health, economic status, education, and housing; notes that according to the joint census publication the island's population, while growing to 7.1 million, the largest level since 1851, remains below pre-famine population levels; further notes the findings in relation to the all-island economy whereby over 18,000 workers travel both ways across the border for work on a daily basis; recognises that joint census publications can help identify shared challenges and opportunities for policy and decision making; and calls on Executive departments to take stock of these findings.
Ms Emma Sheerin
Mr Pádraig Delargy
Mr Philip McGuigan
