OP 08-09/10

ORDER PAPER
TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2009

The Assembly to sit at 10.30 am

1. PRAYERS

2. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSINESS

• Further Consideration Stage - Rates (Amendment) Bill (NIA 2/09)

[Minister of Finance and Personnel]

3. QUESTION TIME

3.1 Finance and Personnel

3.2 Assembly Commission

4. PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS

- Motion - Protestant Student Exodus

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

[Mr A Easton]
[Mr J Craig]

- Motion - Investment in Social Housing

- Proposed: That this Assembly notes with concern the particular impact on the housing construction industry of the current economic downturn; further notes the recent research by the University of Ulster that investment in social housing would have a multiplier effect on job creation; and calls on the Minister of Finance and Personnel to make monies available to invest in a programme of new build social housing across Northern Ireland.

[Mr D O’Loan]
[Dr A McDonnell]
[Mr T Burns]

5. ADJOURNMENT

• Unauthorised Monument in Newtownbutler.

[Mr T Elliott]