Finance & Personnel Minister Nigel Dodds get things underway at the Assembly this week as he shepherds the affirmation of Rates (Regional Rates) Order (Northern Ireland) 2010 and an attempt to extend provisions of the Equality Bill (dealing with the abolition of the presumption of advancement) to Northern Ireland.
Regular Stormont-watchers will know that Education oral questions are always a lively affair often overshadowing their perennial dispatch box partner Employment and Learning.
Assembly housekeeping follows with motions to tweak how media moguls and Joe Public should behave themselves in the public gallery. One suspects the irony will be lost on most MLAs as they tighten up the rules on visitor mobile phones going off in the public gallery.
The Ulster Unionists then have a motion criticizing the delay in bringing the Review of Public Administration reforms regarding local government onto a legislative footing. Business is concluded by a DUP motion welcoming the end in sight for the 50:50 recruitment policy for the PSNI as established under the Patten report.
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