Official Report: Minutes of Evidence
Committee for Communities, meeting on Thursday, 28 November 2024
Members present for all or part of the proceedings:
Mr Colm Gildernew (Chairperson)
Mrs Ciara Ferguson (Deputy Chairperson)
Mr Andy Allen MBE
Ms Kellie Armstrong
Mr Maurice Bradley
Mr Brian Kingston
Mr Maolíosa McHugh
Child Support Enforcement Bill: Committee Report
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): We are moving on to our consideration of the Committee's report on the Child Support Enforcement Bill. I remind members that we are focusing on the text of the report only, as the team will address any formatting issues once the text is agreed. A copy of the draft report is in your pack. I will ask for comments and then agreement on each section of the report.
We will start with the section that is headed "Powers and Membership". Do members have any comments, or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Do members have any comments on the section that is headed "Executive Summary", or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Do members have any comments on the section with the heading "Introduction", or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Do members have any comments on the section that is headed "Context and Overview of the Bill", or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Do members have any comments on the section that is under the heading "Committee Recommendations and Consideration of Wider Issues", or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Do members have any comments on the section that is headed "Consideration of the Bill", or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Do members have any comments on the section that has the heading "Committee Deliberations on the Bill", or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Do members have any comments on the section that is headed "Clause by Clause Scrutiny of the Bill", or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Do members have any comments on the section that is titled "Links to Appendices", or are they content with the section as drafted?
Members indicated assent.
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Are members content to agree that the report is final, pending formatting issues being tidied, and that, once those are done, the report be printed?
Members indicated assent.
The Chairperson (Mr Gildernew): Thank you, members. That concludes the Committee Stage of the Child Support Enforcement Bill. I thank you all for your in-depth scrutiny of the Bill, and I put on record our thanks to all those who made submissions and gave oral evidence. Again, I thank the departmental officials and our Assembly Bill Office for their hard work and help as we made our way through the Bill. I thank the Committee staff for assisting us in our consideration of all that. I look forward to the debate on the Bill at Consideration Stage.