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OP 29-09/10

ORDER PAPER
MONDAY 25 JANUARY 2010

The Assembly to sit at noon

1. PRAYERS

2. ASSEMBLY BUSINESS

- Motion - Appointment to the Assembly Commission

- Proposed: That, in accordance with Standing Order 79(4), Mr Alex Attwood be appointed to fill a vacancy on the Assembly Commission.

[Mr P Ramsey]
[Mr PJ Bradley]
[Mr T Burns]

3. QUESTION TIME

3.1 Education
3.2 Employment and Learning

4. COMMITTEE BUSINESS

- Motion - Standing Committee Membership

- Proposed: That Mr Declan O’Loan be appointed as a member of the Assembly and Executive Review Committee.

[Mr P Ramsey]
[Mr PJ Bradley]
[Mr T Burns]

- Motion - Statutory Committee Membership

- Proposed: That Mr Conall McDevitt be appointed as a member of the Committee for Health, Social Services and Public Safety.

[Mr P Ramsey]
[Mr PJ Bradley]
[Mr T Burns]

5. PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS

- Motion - Protestant Student Numbers Attending Northern Ireland Universities

- Proposed: That this Assembly calls on the Minister for Employment and Learning to bring forward measures to ensure that more students from a Protestant background are encouraged to opt for universities in Northern Ireland as their first choice.

[Mr A Easton]
[Mr J Craig]
[Mr T Buchanan]

- Motion - Independent Review of Policy on the Location of Public Sector Jobs (The Bain Review)

- Proposed: That this Assembly notes the significant social, regional development, economic and long term environmental benefits of a programme of decentralisation of public sector jobs; calls on the Minister of Finance and Personnel to reconsider his stated position on the implementation of the ‘Independent Review of Policy on the Location of Public Sector Jobs’; welcomes the Minister’s recognition that it requires an Executive decision; and calls on the Executive to discuss the issue at its next meeting with a view to taking immediate action to fully implement the Review’s recommendations by assessing options for decentralising public sector jobs within all Government Departments and public sector agencies.

[Mr P Ramsey]
[Mr D O’Loan]
[Mrs D Kelly]

6. ADJOURNMENT