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ORDER PAPER TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2002 Click HERE for Marshalled list of Amendments for 11.06.02. The Assembly to sit at 10.30 am
A Bill to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of certain sums for the service of the year ending 31st March 2003; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow on the credit of the appropriated sums; to authorise the use for the public service of certain resources (including accruing resources) for the year ending 31st March 2003; and to repeal certain spent enactments. [Minister of Finance and Personnel]
A Bill to make further provision in relation to the regional development strategy for Northern Ireland. [Minister for Regional Development]
[Minister for Regional Development]
Proposed - Delete Standing Order 10 and insert new Standing Order: 10.SITTINGS AND ADJOURNMENTS OF THE ASSEMBLY (1)The categories of business to be conducted in the Assembly shall consist of the following: (a)Assembly Business (b)Executive Committee Business (c)Committee Business (d)Questions (e)Private Members' Business (f)Private Business (g)Adjournment Debates (h)Party Business. (2)Subject to the authority of the Business Committee to determine the time for commencement of business in plenary session the sittings of the Assembly shall be arranged as follows: Monday12.00 midday - 6.00 pm Tuesday10.30 am - 6.00 pm The allocation of time for business within these sittings shall be determined by the Business Committee, except that (a)on each Monday on which there is a sitting there shall be a period for Questions commencing at 2.30 pm and finishing at 4.00 pm; (b)at the end of each sitting up to one hour may be set aside for an Adjournment Debate; (c)any private notice questions shall normally be asked immediately before the Adjournment Debate. (3)Where business on the Order Paper has not been disposed of by 6.00 pm on Monday, the Speaker may allow business to continue until 7.00 pm or until the outstanding business is completed, whichever is earlier. Consideration of business on the Order Paper not concluded by 7.00 pm shall be postponed until such a time as the Business Committee determines. (4)If at 7.00 pm a division is in progress, or a question is being put and a division or a vote in the chamber results, adjournment of the Assembly shall be deferred until after the declaration of the result of the division or vote in the chamber. (5)If Tuesday's business cannot be completed in the allocated time, the sitting may be extended into the evening, into Wednesday, or both. (6)Additional sittings may be arranged by the Business Committee according to the exigencies of the Assembly. (7)Where statements made under Standing Order 18 impinge upon the time bands specified in this Standing Order the Speaker shall take action under Standing Order 18(5). (8)An adjournment of the Assembly shall mean an adjournment until the next sitting day unless the Assembly, on a motion made by a Member of the Executive Committee after notice, has ordered an adjournment to some other definite date. (9)A Session of the Assembly shall be that period from the commencement of business following the Summer Recess until the end of the subsequent Summer Recess. The Business Committee shall determine the dates for recess. [Chairperson, Committee on Procedures]
Proposed - In Standing Order 18(5) line 7 delete "Standing Order 10(3)" and insert: "Standing Order 10(5)". [Chairperson, Committee on Procedures]
Proposed - 54.COMMITTEE OF THE CENTRE In Standing Order 54(1) after paragraph (l) insert: (m)Those functions relating to the Planning Appeals Commission and the Water Appeals Commission transferred to the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister by The Departments (Transfer of Functions) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001. [Chairperson, Committee on Procedures]
Proposed - Insert new Standing Order: 75.OFFICIAL REPORT (Hansard) (1)A substantially verbatim report of the proceedings at all sittings of the Assembly and Committee meetings that form part of the legislative process or at which evidence that will contribute to a report by a Committee is being taken shall be prepared and published. The report shall be known as the Official Report (Hansard) and shall be a record of the proceedings in the language spoken. (2)A revised edition of the Official Report (Hansard) for all Assembly sittings and Committee meetings which form part of the legislative process shall be prepared in bound volume form at such times as the Speaker shall determine. Such bound volumes shall also contain written questions and answers for the period covered. (3)Editorial control of the Official Report (Hansard) shall rest ultimately with the Speaker but shall be exercised on his behalf by the Editor of Debates. [Chairperson, Committee on Procedures]
Proposed - That this Assembly approves the Report of the Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure on its Inquiry into Cultural Tourism and the Arts, and calls on the Executive to ensure that the Committee's recommendations are evaluated and implemented at the earliest opportunity. [Chairperson, Committee for Culture, Arts and Leisure]
Proposed - That this Assembly rejects the offensive trend of erecting memorials throughout Northern Ireland by Republican elements in memory of terrorists who tortured citizens of this state for decades by their campaign of murder, maiming and destruction and calls upon the Executive to take immediate action to remove those memorials which have been erected without permission. [Mr S Foster]
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