Water charges are the only legislative focus in the chamber today with a piece of temporary enabling legislation getting a brief first reading. Oral questions will be fielded by OFMDFM and Agriculture. There will be a predictably fiery debate on the funding of sports clubs tabled by the UUP. Clearly aimed at the Gaelic Athletic Association the motion puts pressure on the DUP Culture, Arts and Leisure Minister Nelson McCausland to stop funding clubs who allow political events to take place on their premises. And finally not to disappoint those who like their NI politics traditional, the DUP have tabled a motion expressing concern about the religious balance of lower-ranking civil servants.
EXECUTIVE BUSINESS
- § First Stage – Water and Sewerage Services (Amendment) Bill (NIA 3/09)
[Minister for Regional Development]
A bill to enable the Department for Regional Development to continue to make payments to water and sewerage undertakers for a limited period.
QUESTION TIME
Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister
Agriculture and Rural Development
PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS
- Motion – Financial Support for Sports Clubs
- Proposed: That this Assembly calls on the Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure to ensure that no sports club, which facilitates a commemoration or glorification of terrorism, receives financial support through his Department, either directly or indirectly.
[Mr T Elliot]
[Mr D Kennedy]
[Mr D McNarry]
- Motion – Civil Service Recruitment
- Proposed: That this Assembly notes the efforts made by the Northern Ireland Civil Service in recent years to address the under-representation of Protestants among those applying for, and being recruited to, occupational groups which have most employees in the Civil Service; and calls for continued monitoring of all the grades, but particularly those grades where thousands of people are employed, in order that those from all community backgrounds can have confidence in the recruitment process.
[Mr G Campbell]
[Mr P Weir]
