Today's Business

Thursday 06 November 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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Thursday 06 November 2025
10:00 AMRoom 29Committee for Communities

Public from 10:00 AM (28 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 10:28 AM (4 mins)
SL1 - The Occupational Pension Schemes (Collective Money Purchase Schemes) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025
• Ms Hayley Ward, DfC
• Ms Keira McKeown, DfC

Public from 10:32 AM (1 mins)
SR 2025/169 The Social Fund (Child Funeral Fund) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Public from 10:33 AM (39 mins)
Community Infrastructure Fund: Oral evidence from the Department for Communities
• Mr Paul McNaught, DfC
• Ms Rosheen Thompson, DfC
• Mr Christo McConnell, DfC

Suspension from 11:12 AM (8 mins)

Public from 11:20 AM (30 mins)
Building Safety Policy: Oral evidence from the Department for Communities
• Mr Derek Kennedy, DfC
• Ms Wendy Long, DfC
• Mr Gerry McKibbin, DfC

Closed from 11:50 AM (62 mins)
Sign Language Bill: Committee deliberations on the clauses of the Bill
• Mrs Liz Marsh, Assembly Clerk

Public from 12:52 PM (6 mins)
Committee Business
10:00 AMRoom 30Windsor Framework Democratic Scrutiny Committee

Public from 10:00 AM (2 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 10:02 AM (45 mins)
COM/2023/258 Proposal for a Regulation establishing the Union Customs Code and the European Union Customs Authority, and repealing Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 - Oral Evidence
• Ms Nuala McNamee, Office of the Northern Ireland Executive in Brussels

Public from 10:47 AM (5 mins)
COM/2023/414 Proposal for a Regulation on the production and marketing of plant reproductive material in the Union

Public from 10:52 AM (5 mins)
COM/2023/415 Proposal for a Regulation on the production and marketing of forest reproductive material

Public from 10:57 AM (5 mins)
COM/2023/224 Proposal for a Regulation on compulsory licensing for crisis management and amending Regulation (EC) 816/2006

Public from 11:02 AM (5 mins)
End of Session Report - Consideration of Draft Report

Public from 11:07 AM (10 mins)
Committee Business
10:18 AMRoom 21Committee for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs

Public from 10:18 AM (24 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 10:42 AM (51 mins)
Dilapidation Bill - Oral Evidence Session - Institute of Historic Building Conservation
• Ms Joanne Curran, Institute of Historic Building Conservation
• Mr Dawson Stelfox, Institute of Historic Building Conservation

Public from 11:33 AM (37 mins)
Dilapidation Bill - Oral Evidence Session - Retail NI
• Glyn Roberts, Retail NI
• Mr George Dorrian, Retail NI

Public from 12:10 PM (35 mins)
SR 2025/165 The Farm Sustainability Standards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025
• Mrs Anna Campbell, DAERA
• Mr George Moffett, DAERA
• Mr Aidan McEvoy, DAERA
• Ms Denise Phillips, DAERA

SR 2025/XXX The Waste (Fees and Charges) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

SR 2025/XXX The Farm Sustainability Payment Scheme (Eligibility etc) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Departmental Written Briefing - Update on DfC-led Shaping Sustainable Places Programme in collaboration with DAERA & DfI

Departmental Written Briefing - Update on DAERA Planning Performance

Departmental Written Briefing - Update on Lough Neagh Action Plan

Public from 12:45 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business
2:00 PMRoom 29Committee for Health

Public from 2:00 PM (5 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 2:05 PM (45 mins)
Briefing from Mental Health Champion
• Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Mental Health Champion
• Dr Nicole Bond, Mental Health Champion
• Mr Peter Cash, Mental Health Champion

Public from 2:50 PM (20 mins)
Adult Protection Bill - Briefing from RaISe
• Sinead McMurray, Research Officer
• Dr Grainne Crealey, Research Officer

Public from 3:10 PM (60 mins)
Adult Protection Bill - Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
• Ms Alyson Kilpatrick, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
• Dr Colin Caughey, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
• Dr Ivanka Antova, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission

Public from 4:10 PM (5 mins)
Departmental Written Briefing - Violence and Aggression Against HSC Staff

Public from 4:15 PM (5 mins)
Departmental Written Briefing - Hospital Car Parking

Public from 4:20 PM (10 mins)
Committee Business

Closed from 4:30 PM (20 mins)
Adult Protection Bill - Briefing from Bill Clerk
• Mrs Liz Marsh, Assembly Clerk

Closed from 4:50 PM (10 mins)
Committee Inquiry: Access to Palliative Care Services - Consideration of Report
2:00 PMRoom 30Committee for Justice

Closed from 2:00 PM (10 mins)
Committee Business

Justice Bill - Delegated Powers update

Public from 2:10 PM (5 mins)
Committee Business

Public from 2:15 PM (60 mins)
Justice Bill - Reasonable chastisement/Equal protection – Department of Justice and Department of Health joint oral evidence session
• Mr Andrew Dawson, DoJ
• Dr Oisin Martin, DoH
• Ms Pamela Mooney, DoH
• Ms Natalie Whelehan, Children in Northern Ireland

Public from 3:15 PM (20 mins)
Justice Bill - Written papers

SR 2025/166 The Enforcement of Fines and Other Penalties (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

SR 2025/167 The Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 (Retention and Disposal of Seized Motor Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

SR 2025/168 The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (Retention and Disposal of Seized Motor Vehicles) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025

Northern Ireland Troubles Bill - Legislative Consent - Memorandum laid under Standing Order 42A (4)(b)

Legal Aid - Remuneration proposals – Department of Justice written paper

Five-year Plan - Draft Department of Justice plan - Department of Justice written paper

Personal injury discount rate - Consultation on how inflation is taken into account in setting of rate - Department of Justice written paper

Public from 3:35 PM (15 mins)
Committee Business

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