Order Paper
Date: 29 September 2025
1. Prayers
2. Members’ Statements
3. 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 September 2025.
Business Committee
4. Executive Committee Business
Further Consideration Stage: School Uniforms (Guidelines and Allowances) Bill (NIA Bill 12/22-27)
Minister of Education
5. Question Time
5.1 Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
6. Private Members’ Business
Motion: Endometriosis Care
Proposed:
That this Assembly notes that endometriosis is a serious, chronic inflammatory disease affecting at least one in ten women across the island, with evidence suggesting the number may be higher; further notes the disease often causes severe pelvic pain, infertility, internal scarring, and damage to multiple organs, yet it takes an average of eight to nine years for patients to receive a diagnosis; acknowledges that the neglect of endometriosis care highlights wider systemic failures in women's healthcare; recognises that international best practice confirms that specialist-led excision surgery, delivered within a multidisciplinary model of care, provides the best outcomes; calls on the Minister of Health to urgently look at the potential for specialist services with targets for diagnosis and treatment; and further calls on the Minister to engage with his Ministerial counterpart in Dublin to develop a joined-up cross-border approach to endometriosis care which can harness the relevant medical expertise on the island for better women's health outcomes.
Mrs Linda Dillon
Mr Philip McGuigan
Miss Órlaithí Flynn
Motion: Addressing the Failure to Deliver a Northern Ireland Aviation Strategy
Proposed:
That this Assembly notes with concern the ongoing failure of the Department for the Economy to develop and publish an aviation policy or strategy for Northern Ireland; highlights that this delay is holding back economic development, undermining opportunities for investment, tourism, and business competitiveness; stresses that airports across Northern Ireland each have a vital role to play in promoting export growth; further stresses that any future aviation strategy must treat all airports equitably; calls on the Minister for the Economy to publish a comprehensive aviation strategy for Northern Ireland, including measurable targets and specific proposals for a route development fund, within the next three months; and further calls on the Minister to outline what progress has been made towards increasing external sales intensity from 45 per cent to 60 per cent of GDP by 2030, as envisaged by the Northern Ireland Export Forum.
Mr Phillip Brett
Mr Gary Middleton
Mr Jonathan Buckley
