Order Paper
Reference: OP 41/22-27
Date: 24 June 2024
The Assembly to sit at noon.
1. Prayers
2. Members’ Statements
3. Executive Committee Business
Motion: The draft Fisheries Act 2020 (Scheme for Financial Assistance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
Proposed:
That the draft Fisheries Act 2020 (Scheme for Financial Assistance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024 be approved.
Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
Motion: The draft Local Government (Remote Meetings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2024
Proposed:
That the draft Local Government (Remote Meetings) Regulations (Northern Ireland)
2024 be approved.
Minister for Communities
4. Question Time
5. Committee Business
Motion: Extension of Committee Stage – Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Bill (NIA Bill 04/22-27)
Proposed:
That, in accordance with Standing Order 33(4), the period referred to in Standing Order 33(2) be extended to 8 November 2024, in relation to the Committee Stage of the Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Bill.
Chairperson, Committee for Communities
6. Private Members’ Business
Motion: Retaining and Inspiring Young Talent
Proposed:
That this Assembly, while noting the educational and professional development opportunities for students studying away from home, regrets the large number of young people forced to leave Northern Ireland in order to pursue higher education who would otherwise wish to study and build lives here but are unable to; notes that the equivalent of a large university’s worth of students are studying in Britain and a high proportion are unlikely to return; acknowledges the negative societal and economic consequences of this trend, particularly on our low levels of productivity; further notes that this so-called ‘brain drain’ compounds the negative economic consequences of our low levels of educational attainment among school leavers; calls on the Minister for the Economy to work with the Minister of Education to develop a strategy to reduce the number of students leaving these shores who would otherwise wish to stay, including growing undergraduate spaces here, and collaborating with the Irish Government to increase the volume of cross-border undergraduate entrants; and further calls on the Minister to report to the Assembly on agreed actions not later than December 2024.
Mr Matthew O'Toole
Ms Sinéad McLaughlin
Ms Cara Hunter
