Assembly Debates raise awareness of topical and/or specific local issues. This category will promote those debates that are in the wider public interest.
That this Assembly notes with concern the risks to multiple streams of funding posed by withdrawal from the European Union; further notes that over 70% of all European funding to Northern Ireland falls under the common agricultural policy and other rural funds, which provide approximately £350 million each year to farmers, representing 87% of annual… Continue Reading Opposition Business – Agriculture EU Funding
That this Assembly expresses its concern that, according to the Department for Communities, around 376,000 or 21% of people in Northern Ireland live in relative income poverty before housing costs; notes that, in June 2015, the High Court found that the Executive had breached a legal duty by failing to adopt an identifiable strategy setting… Continue Reading Poverty and Deprivation
That this Assembly welcomes the report by the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast, entitled ‘The Impact and Cost Effectiveness of Nurture Groups in Primary Schools in Northern Ireland’; welcomes the commitment of the Minister of Education to continuing to fund the 32 nurture units across Northern Ireland; and calls on… Continue Reading Private Members’ Business – Nurture Provision
That this Assembly is deeply concerned by the failure to provide residential assessments and therapies at the Middletown Centre for Autism; believes that this represents a setback for autism services across the island of Ireland; and calls on the Minister of Education to work with his Executive colleagues and the Minister for Education and Skills… Continue Reading Private Members’ Business – Middletown Centre for Autism
On Monday 14th of November, MLAs debated the following motion: “That this Assembly welcomes the success that the Executive has had in attracting major sporting events in recent years and attracting visitors engaged in sports tourism; notes the high value economic benefit that can arise from events-based and activity-based sports tourism; and calls on the… Continue Reading Sporting Events and Activity based Tourism
On Monday the 14th of November, MLAs debated the following motion: “That this Assembly notes the publication of Health and Wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together and Systems, Not Structures: Changing Health and Social Care.” You can read the full transcript on our website.
That this Assembly believes in a victim-centred approach to addressing the past and that victims and survivors should have a meaningful input to the content and design of legacy proposals; further believes that justice, truth and accountability, acknowledgement and support for victims and survivors are essential elements in a comprehensive approach to the past; notes… Continue Reading Addressing the Past
That this Assembly believes that, 18 years after the Good Friday Agreement, all paramilitary organisations should have ceased to exist; notes the Fresh Start panel report on the ‘Disbandment of Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland’ and the lacklustre response from the Executive; and calls on the First Minister and deputy First Minister and the Minister… Continue Reading Private Members’ Business – Ending All Forms of Paramilitarism