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No.05/06

MINUTE OF PROCEEDINGS

TUESDAY 6 JUNE 2006

The Assembly met at 2.00 pm, the Speaker in the Chair

1. Personal Prayer or Meditation

Members observed two minutes’ silence.

2. The Speaker’s Business

2.1 The Speaker advised Members that the Secretary of State had directed that the Assembly should sit on Tuesday 6 June 2006 at 2.00pm to consider business as it appears on the Order Paper.

2.2 The Speaker delivered a ruling on the effect of interventions on speaking times.

3. Private Members’ Business

3.1 Motion – Industrial Rating

Proposed:

That this Assembly, pending the restoration of a fully devolved Assembly and power-sharing Executive:

(a) calls on the Secretary of State to freeze the Industrial Rate at 25%;

(b) agrees with the Northern Ireland Manufacturing Focus Group that the introduction of full Industrial Rates as currently planned by the Government will lead to devastation in the manufacturing sector and the loss of thousand of jobs; and

(c) therefore calls on the Secretary of State to deliver on his undertaking to act upon the agreed position of all the political parties, and cap the Industrial Rate at 25%.

[Mr J Dallat]

Debate ensued.

Deputy Speaker (Mr Jim Wells) in the Chair.

The Speaker in the Chair.

After debate, the Question being put, the Motion was carried without division.

4. Adjournment

4.1 Proposed: That the Assembly do now adjourn.

 

[The Speaker]

The Assembly adjourned at 5.31 pm.

Mrs Eileen Bell
The Speaker
6 June 2006
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