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A busy agenda gets underway this week with a clearing of decks motion to neuter some pesky standing orders that may have impacted on Tuesday’s big debate on the devolution of Policing & Justice.

Health Questions are always relatively lively and expect robust exchanges over recent increases of waiting times and budgetary pressures. Fresh from his party’s Ard Fheis Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy has the hard job of providing the encore at the dispatch box.

The SDLP shuffle the decks a little by replacing their newly elected Deputy Leader Patsy McGlone with PJ Bradley on the Agriculture Committee.

The uninitiated Stormont Watcher might do a double take when they hear Social Development Committee Chairman Simon Hamilton leading a debate calling for action arising out of the Savills Report. He will in fact be referring to a rather more mundane issue of how housing maintenance is financed.

In private members business PUP Leader Dawn Purvis brings her double jobbing bill to its first substantive stage with its second reading.

Next up the UUP will call on the Agriculture Minister to bring forward fair and practical criteria for implementation of tranche two of the Farm Modernisation Programme.

And finally the DUP claim last spot calling for Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie to examine the scope for replicating the boiler scrappage scheme operating in England & Wales to be replicated in Northern Ireland.  

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