Meeting of the Parliament

Meeting date: Wednesday, September 14, 2016

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Parliamentary Bureau Motions

The next item of business is consideration of Parliamentary Bureau motions S5M-01430, S5M-01431 and S5M-01432.

Motions moved,

That the Parliament agrees that, in relation to First Minister’s Questions on 22 September—

(i) in the first sentence of Rule 13.7.A1 “30 minutes” be replaced with “45 minutes”;

and

(ii) in Rule 13.6.2 “6” be replaced with “8”.

That the Parliament agrees the following parliamentary recess dates under Rule 2.3.1: 11 to 18 February 2017 (inclusive), 1 to 16 April 2017 (inclusive), 1 July to 3 September 2017 (inclusive), 7 to 22 October 2017 (inclusive) and 23 December 2017 to 7 January 2018 (inclusive).

That the Parliament agrees that Rule 9B.3.5 be suspended for the purpose of allowing the European and External Relations Committee to consider and report to the Parliament as the lead committee on the legislative consent memorandum on the Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill.—[Joe FitzPatrick.]

The questions on the motions will be put at decision time.