Today's Business

Wednesday 17 September 2025


* Committee Business relates to non-substantive items of business such as the consideration of minutes of the previous meeting and consideration of correspondence or matters arising from previous meetings
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Wednesday 17 September 2025
10:00 AMRoom 21Audit Committee

Public from 10:00 AM (10 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 10:10 AM (5 mins)
Committee consideration of Annual Reports and Accounts - Northern Ireland Assembly Commission, Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman, Northern Ireland Audit Office

Public from 10:15 AM (30 mins)
Evidence Session on Budget 2026-2029/30 - Northern Ireland Audit Office
• Ms Dorinnia Carville, Northern Ireland Audit Office
• Mr Rodney Allen, Northern Ireland Audit Office
• Mr Brian O'Neill, Northern Ireland Audit Office

Public from 10:45 AM (30 mins)
Evidence Session on Budget 2026-2029/30 - Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman
• Ms Margaret Kelly, Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman
• Mr Sean Martin, Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman
• Mr Michael McClean, Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman

Public from 11:15 AM (30 mins)
Evidence Session on Budget 2026-2029/30 - Northern Ireland Assembly Commission
• Mrs Lesley Hogg, Northern Ireland Assembly
• Paula McClintock, Northern Ireland Assembly

Public from 11:45 AM (10 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 11:55 AM (10 mins)
Committee draft response on Fiscal Council Bill

Closed from 12:05 PM (30 mins)
Committee Scrutiny of Clause 20 of Administrative and Financial Provisions Bill - Briefing from Assembly Legal Services

Closed from 12:35 PM (10 mins)
Committee Business
10:00 AMRoom 29Committee for Infrastructure

Public from 10:00 AM (15 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 10:15 AM (45 mins)
Water, Sustainable Drainage and Flood Management Bill - Assembly Research and Information Service – Oral Briefing

Public from 11:00 AM (60 mins)
Water, Sustainable Drainage and Flood Management Bill - Department for Infrastructure – Oral Evidence

Public from 12:00 PM (15 mins)
SR 2025-138 The Penalty Charges (Prescribed Devices) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

SL1 - The U324 Cannyreagh Road, Donaghadee (Stopping-Up) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

SL1 - The Mill Avenue, Belfast (Abandonment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

SL1 - The U1105 Killybracken Road, Dungannon (Abandonment and Stopping-Up) Order (Northern Ireland) 2025

Subordinate Legislation - SL1s - Not Subject to Assembly Proceedings

Public from 12:15 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business
10:00 AMRoom 30Committee for the Economy

Public from 10:00 AM (5 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 10:05 AM (70 mins)
Oral and written evidence – AI Collaboration Centre and the Chief Scientific and Technology Adviser – AI and the NI economy
• Professor Helen McCarthy, Office for Science and Technology, TEO
• David Crozier CBE, AI Collaboration Centre
• Professor Michaela Black, AI Collaboration Centre
• Patrick McGirr, AI Collaboration Centre

Public from 11:15 AM (20 mins)
Assembly Research brief on social enterprises in Northern Ireland
• Nathan Mulholland, Research Officer

Public from 11:35 AM (10 mins)
Committee Business
2:00 PMRoom 29Committee for Education

Public from 2:00 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 2:15 PM (15 mins)
Terms of Reference for the SEN Review

Public from 2:30 PM (60 mins)
SEN Placements - Oral Briefing by the Autism Reviewer
• Ms Ema Cubitt, DoH

Public from 3:30 PM (60 mins)
SEN Placements - Oral Briefing by EA Officials
• Mr Dale Hanna, Education Authority
• Mr Peter Canavan, Education Authority
• Dr Tomas Adell, Education Authority

Public from 4:30 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business
2:00 PMSenate ChamberCommittee for Finance

Public from 2:00 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 2:15 PM (15 mins)
Deaths, Still-Births and Baby Loss Bill - Agreement of Committee Report

Public from 2:30 PM (30 mins)
Administrative and Financial Provisions Bill - Oral briefing from RaISe
• Mrs Eileen Regan, Senior Researcher

Closed from 3:00 PM (30 mins)
Administrative and Financial Provisions Bill - Motion to extend Committee Stage and Bill Clerk Briefing
• Mr Stephen Orme, Assembly Clerk

Closed from 3:30 PM (30 mins)
Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Bill - Motion to extend Committee Stage & Bill Clerk Briefing
• Mr Stephen Orme, Assembly Clerk

Public from 4:00 PM (15 mins)
Land Registration - Land Registration Legislation Project consultation launch – written briefing by Department of Finance

Public from 4:15 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business
2:00 PMRoom 21Committee for The Executive Office

Public from 2:00 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 2:15 PM (45 mins)
Oral Briefing: Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill - The Consultative Forum
• Ms Marie Breen Smyth, Victims' and Survivors' Consultative Forum

Public from 3:00 PM (45 mins)
Oral Briefing: Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill - Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice
• Ms Oonagh McAleer, Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice N.I.
• Ms Mechelle Dillon, Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice N.I.

Public from 3:45 PM (45 mins)
Oral Briefing: Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill - Truth Recovery NI
• Ms Maria Arbuckle, Truth Recovery NI
• Mr Paul McClarey, Truth Recovery NI

Public from 4:30 PM (45 mins)
Oral Briefing: Inquiry (Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses) and Redress Scheme Bill - Birth Mothers and their Children Together
• Ms Adele Johnstone, Birth Mothers and their Children Together
• Ms Barbara McCann, Birth Mothers and their Children Together

Public from 5:15 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business

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