OP 45-09/10
ORDER PAPER
MONDAY 22 MARCH 2010
The Assembly to sit at noon.
1. Prayers
2. Executive Committee Business
Motion - Suspension of Standing Orders
Proposed:
That Standing Orders 10(2) to 10(4) be suspended for 22 March 2010.
Minister of Finance and Personnel
Motion - Supply Resolution for the 2010-11 Main Estimates for the Department of Justice, the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister and the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland
Proposed:
That this Assembly approves that a sum, not exceeding £1,432,778,000, be granted out of the Consolidated Fund, for or towards defraying the charges for the Department of Justice, the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister and the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland for the year ending 31 March 2011 and that resources, not exceeding £1,369,871,000, be authorised for use by the Department of Justice, the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister and the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland for the year ending 31 March 2011 as summarised for each Department or other public body in Columns 4 (b) and 4 (a) of Table 1.3 in the volume of the Northern Ireland Estimates 2010-11 that was laid before the Assembly on 15 March 2010.
Minister of Finance and Personnel
First Stage - Budget (No. 2) Bill (NIA 11/09)
Minister of Finance and Personnel
A Bill to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of certain sums for the service of the year ending 31 st March 2011; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources for the year ending 31 st March 2011.
Motion - The Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2010
Proposed:
That the Pneumoconiosis, etc., (Workers' Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2010 be affirmed.
Minister for Social Development
Motion - Suspension of Standing Orders
Proposed:
That Standing Orders 31(d), 37, 39(1) and 42(5) be suspended in respect of the passage of the Budget (No.2) Bill.
Minister of Finance and Personnel
Second Stage - Budget (No. 2) Bill (NIA 11/09)
Minister of Finance and Personnel
3. Question Time
3.1 Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister
3.2 Employment and Learning
4. Committee Business
(a) Motion - Amend Standing Order 49A
Proposed:
After Standing Order 49 insert –
‘49A. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE
(1) This order applies where, subsequent to all Ministerial offices being filled following the election of the Assembly, the office of Minister of Justice is established.
(2) All chairpersons and deputy chairpersons of statutory committees shall cease to hold their offices on those committees. All other members shall continue to hold their seats on those committees.
(3) The procedures set out in Standing Orders for –
(a) determining the number of statutory committees;
(b) establishing statutory committees (in respect of the Minister of Justice);
(c) appointing chairpersons and deputy chairpersons to statutory committees; and
(d) allocating seats on statutory committees (in respect of the Minister of Justice);
shall apply as they apply after all Ministerial offices have been filled following the election of the Assembly.
(4) The Business Committee shall review the allocation of seats on statutory committees made under Standing Order 49(2) as soon as is practicable following the application of this order.’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(b) Motion - Amend Standing Order 49B
Proposed:
After Standing Order 49A (as inserted above) insert -
‘49B. MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE
A person cannot be a member of the statutory committee established to advise and assist the Minister of Justice if that person is a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board, a district policing partnership or a sub-group of the Belfast district policing partnership.’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(c) Motion - Amend Standing Order 52A
Proposed:
After Standing Order 52 insert –
‘52A. CHANGES IN THE NUMBER OF STANDING COMMITTEES
(1) This order applies in respect of changes in the number of standing committees, including changes by way of –
(a) the establishment of a new standing committee; or
(b) the dissolution of an existing standing committee;
subsequent to the application of the procedure set out in Standing Order 51 following the election of the Assembly.
(2) All chairpersons and deputy chairpersons of standing committees shall cease to hold their offices on those committees upon that change taking effect. All other members shall continue to hold their seats on those committees.
(3) The procedures set out in Standing Orders for –
(a) establishing standing committees (in respect of any new committee);
(b) appointing chairpersons and deputy chairpersons to standing committees; and
(c) allocating seats on standing committees (in respect of any new committees);
shall apply as they apply following the election of the Assembly.
(4) The Business Committee shall review the allocation of seats on standing committees made under Standing Order 52(2) as soon as is practicable following the application of this order.’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(d) Motion - Amend Standing Order 59
Proposed:
In Standing Order 59 after paragraph (4) insert –
‘( ) The committee shall –
(a) review the operation of the amendments made by Schedules 2 to 5 to the Northern Ireland Act 2009;
(b) report on its review by 30 April 2012; and
(c) include in its report any recommendations it has for changes to the way in which judicial office holders are appointed and removed.’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(e) Motion - Amend Standing Order 40(1)(a)
Proposed:
In Standing Order 40(1)(a) line 1 leave out ‘Judicial Committee decide’ and insert –
‘Supreme Court decides’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(f) Motion - Amend Standing Order 40(1)(b)
Proposed:
In Standing Order 40(1)(b) line 1 leave out ‘Judicial Committee made by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland’ and insert –
‘Supreme Court made by the Advocate General for Northern Ireland or the Attorney General for Northern Ireland’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(g) Motion - Amend Standing Order 44(3)
Proposed:
In Standing Order 44(3) line 3 after ‘1998’ insert –
‘, otherwise than by virtue of an Assembly election,’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(h) Motion - Amend Standing Order 44(5)
Proposed:
In Standing Order 44 after paragraph (4) insert –
‘(5) This order does not apply in respect of the Minister of Justice or the office of Minister of Justice.’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(i) Motion - Amend Standing Order 46
Proposed:
In Standing Order 46(2) line 1 leave out ‘Committees to assist the Assembly in the discharge of its business shall be appointed’ and insert –
‘Committees shall be established’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(j) Motion - Amend Standing Order 47
Proposed:
In Standing Order 47 leave out from ‘following’ in line 3 until the end of line 8 and insert –
‘after –
(a) all Ministerial offices have been filled following the election of the Assembly; and
(b) the Business Committee has considered the matter and made a recommendation having had regard to –’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(k) Motion - Amend Standing Order 48
Proposed:
In Standing Order 48(1) line 1 leave out ‘As soon as practicable after the appointment of Ministers’ and insert –
‘As soon as is practicable after the Assembly makes a determination under Standing Order 47’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(l) Motion - Amend Standing Order 51(1)
Proposed:
In Standing Order 51(1) in line 5 and line 6 leave out ‘process’ in both places where it occurs and insert –
‘procedure’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(m) Motion - Amend Standing Order 51(1A)
Proposed:
In Standing Order 51, after paragraph (1) insert –
‘( ) The procedure set out in this order shall be applied as soon as is practicable following the election of the Assembly.’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(n) Motion - Amend Standing Order 60
Proposed:
In Standing Order 60(1) line 1 leave out ‘appoint’ and insert –
‘establish’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(o) Motion - Amend Standing Order 93(1)(a)
Proposed:
In Standing Order 93(1)(a) line 1 leave out ‘Judicial Committee decides’ and insert –
‘Supreme Court decides’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(p) Motion - Amend Standing Order 93(1)(b)
Proposed:
In Standing Order 93(1)(b) line 1 leave out ‘Judicial Committee made by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland’ and insert –
‘Supreme Court made by the Advocate General for Northern Ireland or the Attorney General for Northern Ireland’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
(q) Motion - Amend Standing Order 73
Proposed:
Leave out Standing Order 73 and insert –
‘73. SUB JUDICE
(1) A member shall not, in any proceedings of the Assembly, refer to any matter in respect of which legal proceedings are active (within the meaning of section 2 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981) except to the extent permitted by the Speaker.
(2) Where the proceedings are committee proceedings, paragraph (1) applies as if the reference to the Speaker were a reference to the chairperson of that committee.
(3) Nothing in this order shall prevent the Assembly from considering legislation.’
Chairperson, Committee on Procedures
Motion - Annual Salary of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Proposed:
That this Assembly determines that from 1 April 2010, until such time as the Assembly makes a further determination, the salary to be paid, under Article 4 (1) of the Audit (Northern Ireland) Order 1987, to the holder of the office of Comptroller and Auditor General, shall be the same as the amount which was paid from 1 April 2009 to 31 March 2010.
Chairperson, Audit Committee