Order Paper
Date: 29 June 2026
The Assembly to sit at noon.
1. Prayers
2. Members’ Statements
3. Public Petition
Save Our Trees
Mr Alan Chambers
4. Assembly Business
Motion: Suspension of Standing Orders 10(2) to 10(4)
Proposed:
That Standing Orders 10(2) to 10(4) be suspended for 29 June 2026.
Business Committee
5. Executive Committee Business
Motion: The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
Proposed:
That the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 be approved.
Minister for the Economy
Motion: The Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Employment and Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
Proposed:
That the Statutory Parental Bereavement Pay (Employment and Earnings) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 be approved.
Minister for the Economy
Motion: The draft Mandatory Use of Closed Circuit Television in Slaughterhouses Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026
Proposed:
That the draft Mandatory Use of Closed Circuit Television in Slaughterhouses Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2026 be approved.
Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
6. Question Time
7. Committee Business
Motion: Repeal of Standing Order 70 and Consequential Amendments
Proposed:
The Standing Orders are amended as follows—
(1) That Standing Order 70 be repealed;
(2) In Standing Order 22, for paragraph 2, substitute—
“Every petition presented under this order, not containing matter which would create a substantial risk that the course of justice in legal proceedings (which are active within the meaning of section 2 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981), would be seriously impeded or prejudiced, shall be notified to the Clerk of the Business Committee, and that committee shall consider whether and when it shall be taken in the Assembly.”;
(3) In Standing Order 57—
(a) in the heading, omit “and Privileges”;
(b) in paragraph 1, omit “and Privileges”;
(c) for sub-paragraph 1(a) substitute—
“(a) to consider any complaint of unauthorised disclosure of information by a member referred to it by the Assembly or a committee;”;
(4) In Standing Order 69A—
(a) in paragraph (3) omit “and Privileges”;
(b) in paragraph (4) omit “and Privileges”;
(c) for sub-paragraph 5(a), substitute—
“(a) made by the Committee on Standards, that relates to the conduct of members;”;
(5) In Standing Order 69B, in paragraph 1, omit “and Privileges”; and
(6) In Standing Order 69C, in paragraph 2, omit “and Privileges”.
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
Motion: New Standing Order
Proposed:
After Standing Order 43 insert:
43A Scrutiny of Delegated Powers in Bills
(1) In carrying out its functions under Standing Order 33(2), the appropriate committee may, among other things, consider and report on the following—
(a) whether the provisions of the Bill inappropriately delegate legislative power, and
(b) whether the exercise of legislative power provided for in the Bill is subject to an inappropriate degree of scrutiny by the Assembly.
(2) The appropriate committee may delegate to the Examiner of Statutory Rules the functions set out in this Standing Order.
(3) In this Standing Order, the “appropriate committee” is the committee to which the Bill is referred under Standing Order 33.
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
