No.13/06 (T.A.)
MINUTE OF PROCEEDINGS
TUESDAY 23 JANUARY 2007
The Assembly met at 10.30 am, the Speaker in the Chair
1. Personal Prayer or Meditation
Members observed two minutes’ silence.
2. Committee Business
2.1 Motion – Report on Workplace 2010 and Public Sector Jobs Location
Proposed: That this Assembly notes the report from the Committee on the Programme for Government on Workplace 2010 and Public Sector Jobs Location and endorses the findings and conclusions set out in the Report.
[Chairpersons, Committee on the Programme for Government]
Debate ensued.
Deputy Speaker (Mr Jim Wells) in the Chair.
The Question being put, the Motion was carried without division.
The sitting was, by leave, suspended at 12.15 pm.
The sitting resumed at 2.00 pm.
The Speaker in the Chair.
3. Private Members’ Business
3.1 Motion – Welfare Reform Bill
Proposed: That this Assembly expresses deep concern about the implications of the Welfare Reform Bill, particularly the introduction of a new coercive regime into benefit administration, and its impact on a number of vulnerable groups, including neurological patients.
[Mr J O’Dowd]
3.2 Amendment
Proposed: Leave out all after ‘groups’ and insert:
‘, especially those people with mental ill health.’
[Mrs D Kelly]
Debate ensued.
Deputy Speaker (Mr Jim Wells) in the Chair.
The Speaker in the Chair.
The Amendment being put, the Amendment was made (division 1).
The Question being put, the Motion, as amended, was carried without division.
4. Adjournment
4.1 Proposed: That the Assembly do now adjourn.
[The Speaker]
The Assembly adjourned at 4.10 pm.
Mrs Eileen Bell
The Speaker
23 January 2007
23 JANUARY 2007
DIVISIONS
Division No 1
Welfare Reform Bill
Proposed: Leave out all after ‘groups’ and insert:
‘, especially those people with mental ill health.’
[Mrs D Kelly]
The Question was put and the Assembly divided.
Ayes : 25
Noes : 10
Ayes
Billy Armstrong, Mary Bradley, Wilson Clyde, Robert Coulter, John Dallat, Diane Dodds, Nigel Dodds, Jeffrey Donaldson, Mark Durkan, Alex Easton, Tom Elliott, Sean Farren, Tommy Gallagher, Derek Hussey, Dolores Kelly, Danny Kennedy, Alban Maginness, Nelson McCausland, Lord Morrow, Ian Paisley Jnr, Edwin Poots, Pat Ramsey, Margaret Ritchie, Jim Shannon, Peter Weir.
Tellers for the Ayes: John Dallat and Margaret Ritchie.
Noes
Francie Brolly, Fra McCann, Barry McElduff, Martin McGuinness, Mitchel McLaughlin, Francie Molloy, John O'Dowd, Sue Ramsey, Caitriona Ruane, Kathy Stanton.
Tellers for the Noes: Fra McCann and Kathy Stanton.
The Amendment is agreed.