OFFICIAL REPORT (Hansard) and JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS Volume 66 (1 September 2011 to 2 October 2011) BELFAST: THE STATIONERY OFFICE LTD £70.00 © Copyright 2012 ISBN 978-0-339-80064-9 Table of Contents Assembly Members .........................................................................................................................i Principal Officers and Officials of the Assembly ................................................................................ ii Ministerial Offices ......................................................................................................................... iii Official Report (Hansard) Assembly Sittings Monday 12 September 2011 Assembly Business ........................................................................................................................1 Executive Committee Business Budget (No. 2) Bill: Royal Assent .....................................................................................................2 Damages (Asbestos-related Conditions) Bill: Royal Assent .................................................................2 Ministerial Statements North/South Ministerial Council: Trade and Business Development ...................................................2 North/South Ministerial Council: Special EU Programmes ................................................................6 Higher Education and Student Finance ...........................................................................................11 Committee Business Committee Membership ................................................................................................................23 Private Members’ Business Green Economy ............................................................................................................................24 Oral Answers to Questions Regional Development ..................................................................................................................29 Employment and Learning .............................................................................................................34 Private Members’ Business Green Economy (continued) ...........................................................................................................41 Railways: Londonderry Line ...........................................................................................................52 Tuesday 13 September 2011 Ministerial Statements North/South Ministerial Council: Languages ...................................................................................67 North/South Ministerial Council: Inland Waterways ........................................................................71 Access to Justice Review ..............................................................................................................74 On-street Parking Charges .............................................................................................................82 Oral Answers to Questions Enterprise, Trade and Investment ...................................................................................................89 Environment .................................................................................................................................94 Ministerial Statements Accident and Emergency Services: Belfast ...................................................................................100 Private Members’ Business Policing: Part-time Reserve Gratuity Scheme .................................................................................108 Adjournment Belfast City Hospital: Closure of Accident and Emergency Unit .......................................................123 Monday 19 September 2011 Assembly Business Acting deputy First Minister .........................................................................................................131 Ministerial Statement North/South Ministerial Council: Environment ..............................................................................131 Private Members’ Business Fuel Poverty ...............................................................................................................................139 Oral Answers to Questions Finance and Personnel ...............................................................................................................155 Health, Social Services and Public Safety .....................................................................................161 Private Members’ Business Office of the Police Ombudsman ..................................................................................................167 Tuesday 20 September 2011 Private Members’ Business Programme for Government .........................................................................................................189 Oral Answers to Questions Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister .....................................................................212 Justice ......................................................................................................................................218 Private Members’ Business Newly Qualified Teachers ............................................................................................................225 Adjournment Schools: Holywood .....................................................................................................................243 Monday 26 September 2011 Ministerial Statements North/South Ministerial Council: Aquaculture and Marine ................................................................. 251 North/South Ministerial Council: Agriculture .................................................................................255 Education ..................................................................................................................................260 Youth Justice Review ..................................................................................................................272 Assembly Business ....................................................................................................................280 Oral Answers to Questions Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister .....................................................................280 Social Development ....................................................................................................................286 Executive Committee Business Protection of Freedoms Bill: Legislative Consent ..........................................................................293 Committee Business Committee Membership ..............................................................................................................296 Private Members’ Business Energy Prices .............................................................................................................................296 Tuesday 27 September 2011 Assembly Business ....................................................................................................................313 Ministerial Statements FM/DFM: US Visit ......................................................................................................................314 Health and Social Care Services ..................................................................................................321 Private Members’ Business Rural Businesses .......................................................................................................................330 Oral Answers to Questions Agriculture and Rural Development ..............................................................................................336 Culture, Arts and Leisure ............................................................................................................343 Private Members’ Business Rural Businesses (continued) ......................................................................................................348 Government and the Community and Voluntary Sector ...................................................................357 Adjournment Broadband: Greencastle and Other Parts of West Tyrone ...............................................................372 Written Answers Friday 9 September 2011 Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister ................................................................... WA 1 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...................................................................... WA 2 Department of Education .......................................................................................................... WA 2 Department for Social Development .......................................................................................... WA 8 Friday 16 September 2011 Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister ................................................................... WA 9 Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...................................................................... WA 9 Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure .................................................................................. WA 12 Department of Education ........................................................................................................ WA 20 Department for Employment and Learning ................................................................................ WA 38 Department of Enterprise, Trade and