Motion

Reduction of the Disability Action and Community Transport Budgets

Motion TitleReduction of the Disability Action and Community Transport Budgets

Motion TextThat this Assembly condemns the disproportionate reduction of the Disability Action and Community Transport budgets; notes the very negative impact the severe reduction of departmental budgets is having on people with disabilities and the most vulnerable and isolated people in our society; and calls on the Minister for Regional Development to urgently reinstate this essential funding.

Motion CategoryCommittee Motion

Date Tabled to Business Office01/06/2015

Date Selected By Committee02/06/2015

Date of Plenary Debate08/06/2015

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Tabled By

Member Name	Tabled As
Mr Trevor Clarke	Committee Chair - Committee for Infrastructure

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Outcome/Voting

The Motion Was Carried by Oral Vote

Amendments

Selected Amendments

No amendments tabled were selected for this motion.

Other Amendments Tabled

Tabled Date	Amendment Text
04/06/2015	Proposed: Leave out all after ‘Assembly’ and insert: ‘notes the reduction of the Disability Action and Community Transport budgets due to the current £60million of pressures faced by the Department for Regional Development; further notes the very negative impact the severe reduction across departmental budgets is having on people with disabilities and the most vulnerable and isolated in our society; notes the efforts of the Minister for Regional Development to secure funding for rural community transport through Delivering Social Change; and calls on the Minister for Regional Development to work with his Executive colleagues to ensure that an adequate budgetary allocation is agreed through the June monitoring round that will allow him to reinstate the funding.’

Tabled Date

Amendment Text

04/06/2015

Proposed: Leave out all after ‘Assembly’ and insert: ‘notes the reduction of the Disability Action and Community Transport budgets due to the current £60million of pressures faced by the Department for Regional Development; further notes the very negative impact the severe reduction across departmental budgets is having on people with disabilities and the most vulnerable and isolated in our society; notes the efforts of the Minister for Regional Development to secure funding for rural community transport through Delivering Social Change; and calls on the Minister for Regional Development to work with his Executive colleagues to ensure that an adequate budgetary allocation is agreed through the June monitoring round that will allow him to reinstate the funding.’

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