Motion

Healthier Lifestyles for Children

Motion TitleHealthier Lifestyles for Children

Motion TextThat this Assembly encourages school children to live a healthier lifestyle; acknowledges that following the introduction of a levy on drinks with a high sugar content, an estimated £18 million will be allocated from the Treasury to the Executive's budget in 2018; and calls on the Minister of Finance to ring-fence this money to fund an educational awareness and physical education programme in schools to benefit the long-term health of our children and to ease pressure on the Health Service.

Motion CategoryPrivate Members' Motion

Date Tabled to Business Office27/09/2016

Date Selected By Committee27/09/2016

Date of Plenary Debate11/10/2016

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Tabled By

Member Name	Tabled As
Ms Carla Lockhart	MLA - Upper Bann
Mr Phillip Logan	MLA - North Antrim
Ms Paula Bradley	MLA - North Belfast

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Outcome/Voting

81 Members voted

58 Members voted AYE

23 Members voted NO

The Motion, As Amended, Was Carried, Simple Majority Lobby Division

MLA Name	Designation	Voted
Mr Steven Agnew	Other	NO
Dr Steve Aiken OBE	Unionist	AYE
Mr Andy Allen MBE	Unionist	AYE
Mr Sydney Anderson	Unionist	AYE
Dr Caoimhe Archibald	Nationalist	NO
Mr Alex Attwood	Nationalist	AYE
Mrs Rosemary Barton	Unionist	AYE
Mr Doug Beattie MC	Unionist	AYE
Mr Roy Beggs	Unionist	AYE
Mr Cathal Boylan	Nationalist	NO
Mr Maurice Bradley	Unionist	AYE
Ms Paula Bradley	Unionist	AYE
Ms Sinéad Bradley	Nationalist	AYE
Ms Paula Bradshaw	Other	AYE
Mr Keith Buchanan	Unionist	AYE
Mr Tom Buchanan	Unionist	AYE
Ms Joanne Bunting	Unionist	AYE
Mr Robbie Butler	Unionist	AYE
Mrs Pam Cameron	Unionist	AYE
Mr Gerry Carroll	Other	AYE
Mr Alan Chambers	Unionist	AYE
Mr Trevor Clarke	Unionist	AYE
Mr Stewart Dickson	Other	AYE
Mrs Linda Dillon	Nationalist	NO
Mrs Jo-Anne Dobson	Unionist	AYE
Mr Sammy Douglas MBE, MCA	Unionist	AYE
Mr Gordon Dunne	Unionist	AYE
Mr Mark Durkan	Nationalist	AYE
Mr Alex Easton	Unionist	AYE
Mr Colum Eastwood	Nationalist	AYE
Dr Stephen Farry	Other	AYE
Ms Megan Fearon	Nationalist	NO
Mr David Ford	Other	AYE
Mr Paul Frew	Unionist	AYE
Ms Michelle Gildernew	Nationalist	NO
Mr Paul Girvan	Unionist	AYE
Mr Simon Hamilton	Unionist	AYE
Ms Claire Hanna	Nationalist	AYE
Mr William Humphrey	Unionist	AYE
Mr William Irwin	Unionist	AYE
Mr Declan Kearney	Nationalist	NO
Mr Gerry Kelly	Nationalist	NO
Mr Danny Kennedy	Unionist	AYE
Mrs Emma Little-Pengelly	Unionist	AYE
Ms Carla Lockhart	Unionist	AYE
Mrs Naomi Long	Other	AYE
Mr Seán Lynch	Nationalist	NO
Mr Gordon Lyons	Unionist	AYE
Mr Chris Lyttle	Other	AYE
Mr Declan McAleer	Nationalist	NO
Mr Eamonn McCann	Other	AYE
Mr Fra McCann	Nationalist	NO
Ms Jennifer McCann	Nationalist	NO
Mr Raymond McCartney	Nationalist	NO
Mr Nelson McCausland	Unionist	AYE
Mr Barry McElduff	Nationalist	NO
Mr Colin McGrath	Nationalist	AYE
Mr Philip McGuigan	Nationalist	NO
Miss Michelle McIlveen	Unionist	AYE
Mr Harold McKee	Unionist	AYE
Mr Oliver McMullan	Nationalist	NO
Mr Justin McNulty	Nationalist	AYE
Mr Richie McPhillips	Nationalist	AYE
Mr Adrian McQuillan	Unionist	AYE
Ms Nichola Mallon	Nationalist	AYE
Mr Ian Milne	Nationalist	NO
Mr Gerry Mullan	Nationalist	AYE
Mr Conor Murphy	Nationalist	NO
Mr Mike Nesbitt	Unionist	AYE
Ms Carál Ní Chuilín	Nationalist	NO
Mr Máirtín Ó Muilleoir	Nationalist	NO
Mr John O'Dowd	Nationalist	NO
Ms Michelle O'Neill	Nationalist	NO
Mrs Sandra Overend	Unionist	AYE
Mr Edwin Poots	Unionist	AYE
Mr George Robinson MBE	Unionist	AYE
Mr Pat Sheehan	Nationalist	NO
Mr Philip Smith	Unionist	AYE
Mr Christopher Stalford	Unionist	AYE
Mr Robin Swann	Unionist	AYE
Mr Peter Weir	Unionist	AYE

Amendments

Selected Amendments

Number	Tabled Date	Amendment Text
1	07/10/2016	Leave out from ‘2018;’ and insert: ‘notes with concern that only approximately six percent of pupils in each primary year are accessing two or more hours physical education per week; calls on the Minister of Finance to ring-fence this money to fund an educational awareness and physical education programme in schools to benefit the long-term health of our children and to ease pressure on the Health Service; and further calls on the Minister of Education to improve the monitoring and reporting of physical education hours per week accessed by primary pupils and to issue a public consultation on the introduction of a statutory obligation on schools to facilitate an appropriate minimum amount of physical education hours per week for primary school pupils.’

Other Amendments Tabled

Tabled Date	Amendment Text
07/10/2016	Leave out all after ‘fund’ and insert: ‘equitably an educational awareness, physical education and mental health and wellbeing programme in schools to benefit the long-term holistic health of our children and to ease pressure on the Health Service.’
07/10/2016	Leave out from ‘educational’ to ‘schools’ and insert: ‘expansion of the early years programmes to areas which are not currently covered’

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