NI Assembly

Motion: Addiction and Drug-related Deaths

https://youtu.be/4nPGFBMlFO4 Proposed: That this Assembly notes with concern NISRA’s 2024 report on Drug-Related and Drug Misuse Deaths, which found a significant increase in the number of deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol; further notes the intrinsic connection between social deprivation, poverty, isolation, mental health and addiction issues; acknowledges with concern the NISRA figures which show… Continue Reading Motion: Addiction and Drug-related Deaths

Question Time: Communities, Tuesday 23 March 2024

https://youtu.be/oxEnmLR0sHc The Minister for Communities answers oral questions on Tuesday 23 April 2024. View Questions

Motion: Relationships and Sexuality Education

https://youtu.be/y_bp8I-YK40 Proposed: That this Assembly recognises the value of compulsory, standardised, inclusive, high-quality, evidence-based and age-appropriate Relationships and Sexuality Education as a means of empowering and preparing our children and young people for life; regrets that children and young people in Northern Ireland have not had access to such a curriculum; acknowledges that teachers and… Continue Reading Motion: Relationships and Sexuality Education

Question Time: Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Monday 22 April 2024

https://youtu.be/dzfts2P8g1Y The Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs answers oral questions on Monday 22 April 2024. View Questions

Question Time: Justice, Monday 22 April 2024 with BSL

https://youtu.be/BrT2LC9bp-U Minister for Justice Naomi Long answers oral questions on Monday 22 April 2024. This video is accompanied by BSL interpretation View Questions

Question Time: Justice, Monday 22 April 2024

https://youtu.be/UPsg3vbrnjE Minister for Justice Naomi Long answers oral questions on Monday 22 April 2024. View Question

Legislative Consent Motion: Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill

https://youtu.be/Q8LSF4TT230 Proposed: That this Assembly agrees, in line with section 87 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the principle of the extension to Northern Ireland of the provisions of the Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill as it relates to the definition of terminal illness contained in clause 1 of the Bill, which… Continue Reading Legislative Consent Motion: Pensions (Special Rules for End of Life) Bill

Motion: The Coronavirus Act (Registration of deaths and stillbirths) (Extension) (No.2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024

https://youtu.be/OWOdZs8BLFk Proposed: That the Coronavirus Act 2020 (Registration of deaths and stillbirths) (Extension) (No.2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2024 be approved. Minister of Finance