OP 41-08/09

ORDER PAPER

TUESDAY 3 MARCH 2009

The Assembly to sit at 10.30 am

1. PRAYERS

2. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSINESS

• Second Stage - Financial Provisions Bill (NIA 6/08)

[Minister of Finance and Personnel]

• Final Stage - Budget Bill (NIA 5/08)

[Minister of Finance and Personnel]

- Motion - Legislative Consent Motion - Health Bill

- Proposed: That this Assembly endorses the principle of the extension to Northern Ireland of provisions of the Health Bill dealing with tobacco, and powers of suspension in relation to members of NHS bodies and other bodies concerned with health.

[Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety]

3. COMMITTEE BUSINESS

- Motion - Assembly Commission Engagement Strategy

- Proposed: That this Assembly notes the Engagement Strategy developed by the Assembly Commission, which is aimed at improving public engagement with the Assembly, its committees and MLAs.

[Mr S Moutray]
[Mr P Butler]
[Rev Dr R Coulter]
[Mr A Maginness]
[Mr S Neeson]

4. PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS

- Motion - Members’ Rights

- Proposed: That this Assembly recognises the need for elected representatives to be able to protect the confidentiality of information brought to them by constituents and sources; acknowledges the importance of being able to pass on to the appropriate authority information in the public interest without breaching that confidentiality; believes that an erosion of these expectations and rights would seriously undermine the ability of the public representatives to perform their duty and, if unchecked, will emasculate the powers of the Assembly, and undermine the role and trust the public must have in its elected representatives to protect and represent them without fear of prosecution or interference.

[Rt Hon P Robinson]
[Lord Morrow]
[Dr W McCrea]
[Mr I Paisley Jnr]

5. ADJOURNMENT

• The Provision of Hospital and Health Care Facilities in Mid Ulster.

[Mr F Molloy]