OP 07-09/10
ORDER PAPER
MONDAY 5 OCTOBER 2009
The Assembly to sit at noon
1. PRAYERS
2. QUESTION TIME
2.1 Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister
2.2 Environment
3. COMMITTEE BUSINESS
- Motion - Extension of Committee Stage: Employment Bill (NIA Bill 9/08)
- Proposed: That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 9 November 2009, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Employment Bill (NIA Bill 9/08).
[Chairperson, Committee for Employment and Learning]
- Motion - Extension of Committee Stage: Housing (Amendment) Bill (NIA Bill 7/08)
- Proposed: That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 1 December 2009, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Housing (Amendment) Bill (NIA Bill 7/08).
[Chairperson, Committee for Social Development]
- Motion - Extension of Committee Stage: Forestry Bill (NIA Bill 11/08)
- Proposed: That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 2 March 2010, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Forestry Bill (NIA Bill 11/08).
[Chairperson, Committee for Agriculture and Rural Development]
4. PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS
- Motion - Grammar School Entrance Tests
- Proposed: That this Assembly requests that the Minister of Education establishes a statutory framework for the grammar school entrance tests, effective from the beginning of the academic year 2010-11; and recommends that this statutory framework should remain in place until the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment devises, pilots and introduces literacy and numeracy tests compatible with the curriculum, alongside a robust pupil profile, allowing academic criteria to have a role in the post-primary transfer process.
[Mr B McCrea]
[Mr J McCallister]
- Motion - Migrant Workers
- Proposed: That this Assembly notes the economic, social and cultural contributions from migrant workers; and calls on the Executive to review the Migrant Workers Strategy and to re-establish the Racial Equality Forum to consider further support for immigrants.
[Ms A Lo]
[Mrs N Long]
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5. ADJOURNMENT