| Tabled Date | Amendment Text |
| 06/03/2025 | Leave out all after 'disbandment;', and insert:
‘expresses alarm that paramilitary organisations play an unacceptable role in the stoking of racial hatred in our communities; notes with concern that those living in nationalist areas are unjustly subjected to high levels of stop and search, as well as over policing; agrees that, more than 25 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, there is no place for paramilitarism in our society, and that such groups should immediately disband; welcomes the work of the Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime; and calls on the UK and Irish Governments to abandon plans for this scoping and engagement exercise and reinvest the associated funding in preventative and community engagement approaches to paramilitary activity.’
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| 06/03/2025 | Leave out all after ‘agrees that,’ and insert:
‘there was never any place for paramilitarism in our society, and that such groups should either immediately disband or face a robust law enforcement approach like other organised crime gangs; welcomes the work of the Executive Programme on Paramilitarism and Organised Crime; notes that it is almost ten years since the Northern Ireland Office published the last assessment on Paramilitary Groups in Northern Ireland; calls on the Secretary of State to provide an updated assessment; and further calls on the UK and Irish Governments to abandon plans for this scoping and engagement exercise and reinvest the associated funding in law enforcement approaches to paramilitary activity.’
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| 06/03/2025 | Leave out all after ‘Organised Crime;’ and insert:
‘recognises that this programme is almost a decade old and will expire at the end of the mandate; calls on the Minister of Justice to work with her Executive colleagues to introduce an updated programme with corresponding budgets and recommendations on necessary updates to legislation, in order to tackle paramilitarism and organised crime in all its forms by the end of the mandate; and further calls on the UK and Irish governments to redirect any funding from the planned scoping and engagement exercise towards this programme.’ |