OP 46-08/09 Marshalled

MARSHALLED LIST OF AMENDMENTS

Item 4: Order Paper 46 08/09 – 24 March 2009

Private Members’ Business - Motions

Motion - ‘Act on CO2’ Advertising Campaign

That this Assembly notes with concern the attempt by the Minister of the Environment to block the Department of Energy and Climate Change advertising campaign ‘Act on CO2’; further notes that the position is contrary to the targets set out in the Programme for Government to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25% below 1990 levels by 2025; and calls on the Minister of the Environment to remove his opposition to the ‘Act on CO2’ advertising campaign.

[Mr R Beggs]
[Mr D McClarty]

The Speaker has selected the following amendment(s) for debate:

Amendment 1: At end insert:

‘; and, mindful of the Environment Committee’s vote of no confidence in the Minister of the Environment, calls on the Executive to launch a cross-departmental advertising campaign on climate change aimed at achieving the Programme for Government environmental protection targets.’

[Mr T Gallagher]
[Mr P McGlone]

Motion - Post Primary Transfer

That this Assembly notes that schools may choose to use an examination as part of their entry criteria under the Minister of Education’s 2010 guidelines; calls on the Minister of Education to re-commission the CCEA test, she abandoned on 2 February 2009, that schools may then use for a maximum of two years; and calls on the Executive to agree new, legally binding guidelines for post primary transfer for use from 2011.

[Mr T Lunn]
[Dr S Farry]

The Speaker has selected the following amendment(s) for debate:

Amendment 1: Leave out all after ‘2010 guidelines’ and insert:

‘; calls on the Minister of Education to ensure the provision of a CCEA test, as she previously proposed, for a maximum period of two years; believes that no school should be allowed to admit its full year 8 pupil quota using the outcomes of that test alone or using any other test; recommends the admission criteria as outlined in the Minister’s statement on ‘Transfer 2010’ on 2 February 2009 and welcomes the first criterion as a means of ensuring that all schools help tackle social deprivation; and further calls on the Minister of Education to set up a new educator-led working group tasked with building a sustainable consensus on non-selective transfer whose recommendations the Executive and the Assembly would use as the basis for legally binding regulations from 2011 at the latest.’

[Mr D Bradley]
[Mrs M Bradley]
[Mr M Durkan]
[Mr D O’Loan]