Assembly Debates
Assembly Debates raise awareness of topical and/or specific local issues. This category will promote those debates that are in the wider public interest.
Opposition Business – Agriculture EU Funding
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
Poverty and Deprivation
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