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After Pat Ramsey is admitted to the Assembly Commission substantive business kicks off today with oral questions for both OFMDFM and Social Development.
The Social Development committee will ask for an extension for their scrutiny of the Welfare Reform Bill.
Next its more SDLP shuffling of the decks with changes to both their statutory and standing committees [...]

Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy gets things under way at the dispatch box with oral questions.
It’s a case of ‘Go Compare’ in Private Members Business with a SF motion focussing on higher insurance premiums and calling on DETI Minister Arlene Foster to engage with the industry to reduce the disparity with other UK regions.
The UUP’s [...]

It seems you have to get up very early to get the better of our Education Minister who today will be one step ahead the first item on the agenda. The presentation of a petition for a rebuild of Whitehouse PS is rendered largely redundant with the Minister’s announcement of funding and the official go-ahead [...]

Question Time for both Environment Minister Edwin Poots and the Assembly Commission opens the agenda on the hill today.
The DETI Committee will apply for an extension for its committee stage on the Unsolicited Services (Trade and Business Directories) Bill.
Following that the Chairs of the Finance and Enterprise Committees will present a joint motion to increase [...]

Environment Minister Edwin Poots gets things underway on the hill today with the High Hedges Bill reaching its second stage. Fresh from his victory in East Antrim Finance Minister Sammy Wilson will be bringing the Construction Contracts (Amendment) Bill to its second stage.
Oral Questions sees OFMDFM and the Enterprise Minister at the dispatch box before [...]

Environment Minister Edwin Poots gets a relatively light agenda underway today with the second reading of the Local Government (Finance) Bill, before his counterpart in Agriculture Michelle Gildernew begins the consideration stage for the Forestry Bill and for her encore answers oral questions.
Private members business sees a SF motion firing a warning shot across the [...]

OFMDFM oral questions gets things underway at the Assembly but are likely to be overshadowed somewhat by our brand new Justice Minister’s first foray at the dispatch box.
Both the Environment & Enterprise Committees will apply for extensions for their homework on the Local Government (Disqualification) (Amendment) Bill and the Debt Relief Bill’s respectively.
Delays in the [...]

Commuters arriving at their desks having survived motorway hell will be delighted that traffic kicks off the agenda on Monday morning with a public petition on Camlough Road and Millvale Road Junction, Newry.
Health Minister Michael McGimpsey is next at the dispatch box with Oral Questions before Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy takes time out from [...]

After all the excitement yesterday Tuesday’s agenda seems somewhat pale by comparison.
Executive business kicks off with the Environment Minister bringing the Waste and Contaminated Land (Amendment) Bill before the house for its second stage.
Next the Agriculture Minister Michelle Gildernew takes time out from a close Westminster race in Fermanagh & South Tyrone to seek approval [...]

It’s Justice Day at Stormont!
Substantive events kick off with the First & Deputy First Minister proposing a motion establishing the office before the Assembly attempts to fill it with Alliance Leader David Ford expected to step up to the plate.
Oral questions for OFMDFM & Environment will be a mere distraction before the business of proposing [...]