Members will be holding on tight to their breakfast as the Diseases of Animals Bill appears as the first item on the agenda today reaching its further consideration stage.
Question time once again adopts the feel of the classroom and lecture hall as the Ministers for Education and Employment and Learning both step up to the dispatch box.
Expect much self-flagulation and talk of ‘sharing the pain’ when the house debates a pay rise for MLAs, based on the out workings of the Assembly Commission’s Report on Pay, Pensions and Financial Support for Members. Only the very opportunistic MLAs will be putting their heads above the parapet to support this one.
Private members business sees the SDLP returning to their pet project of how North-South bodies will deliver a 32 county social democratic republic tabling another motion on the performance of existing organisations and the need for more.
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