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OP 25-07/08

ORDER PAPER

MONDAY 10 DECEMBER 2007

The Assembly to sit at noon

1. PRAYERS

2. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSINESS

[Minister for Social Development]

[Minister for Social Development]

- Motion - Company and Business Names (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

- Proposed: That the Company and Business Names (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/462) be approved.

[Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment]

- Motion - Administration of Estates (Rights of Surviving Spouse or Civil Partner) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

- Proposed: That the Administration of Estates (Rights of Surviving Spouse or Civil Partner) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/452) be approved.

[Minister of Finance and Personnel]

- Motion - Legislative Consent - Climate Change Bill

- Proposed: That this Assembly endorses the principle of the extension of the provisions of the Climate Change Bill to Northern Ireland.

[Minister of the Environment]

3. COMMITTEE BUSINESS

- Motion - Prayer of Annulment - S.R. 2007/442

- Proposed: That the Student Fees (Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/442) be annulled.

[Chairperson, Committee for Employment and Learning]

4. QUESTION TIME

4.1 First Minister and deputy First Minister
4.2 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
4.3 Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure

5. PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS

- Motion - Delivering Choice for the Terminally Ill

- Proposed: That this Assembly expresses concern that 75% of terminally ill people in Northern Ireland are unable to die in the place of their choice, whether in their own home or the home of a family member; and that many terminally ill people are admitted to hospital on multiple occasions, unnecessarily, during the final weeks of life, causing stress to their families and carers; welcomes the positive results emerging from the ‘Delivering Choice Programme’ which Marie Curie Cancer Care has operated in Great Britain; and calls on the Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety to provide the necessary resources for a pilot programme aimed at ensuring that patients, and their carers, receive the necessary support throughout the palliative care period.

[Ms C Ní Chuilín]

6. ADJOURNMENT

[Mr D McNarry]