Legislation has arrived upon us again after a lengthy gap with the Minister for Social Development bringing forward amendments to social security regulations for lone parents and others.
Also on the agenda is a UUP motion calling on Ms Ruane to adopt a different assessment measure for help with educational underachievement instead of free school meals.
A cross-party motions calls on OFMDFM to review the Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 and the business of the day is completed by an adjournment debate by South Antrim MP Rev. William McCrea on redundancies at Monkstown engineering firm Nortel.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSINESS
- § – Motion – Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2008
- § – Proposed: That the Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2008 be approved.
[Minister for Social Development]
QUESTION TIME
Enterprise, Trade and Investment
PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS
- Motion – Educational Underachievement
- Proposed: That this Assembly urges the Minister of Education to put in place more efficient, targeted measures to deal with educational underachievement rather than relying on the mechanism of free school meal entitlement.
[Mr B McCrea]
[Mr T Elliott]
– Motion – Race Relations
- Proposed: That this Assembly calls on the First Minister and deputy First Minister to review the current Race Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, in view of the fact that the current law does not offer the same levels of protection as in other parts of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, and also given the deficiencies in the Race Relations Order (Amendment) Regulations ( Northern Ireland) 2003.
[Ms A Lo]
[Ms J McCann]
[Ms D Purvis]
[Mr D O'Loan]
ADJOURNMENT
- § Redundancies at Nortel.
[Dr W McCrea]
