Motion or amendment: Institutional Reform following the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Findings - Amendment 1
Motion or amendment by Mr Timothy Gaston on .
- MLA
- Mr Timothy Gaston
- Party at the time
- Traditional Unionist Voice
- Date
- 4 December 2025
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Institutional Reform following the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Findings”
- Heading
- Institutional Reform following the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Findings - Amendment 1
- Assembly identifier
- Document 462660
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Institutional Reform following the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Findings - Amendment 1
Leave out all after ‘including that the’ and insert:
‘structures of the Belfast Agreement weakened the ability of the Executive to respond during a global emergency and that decision-making was marred by political disputes; regrets that at certain critical points during the pandemic, Ministers failed to put the common interest of all of the people of Northern Ireland above their party political interests; condemns the breaking of rules by Executive Ministers; resolves that this dysfunction in decision-making must never be repeated; and calls on the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to convene a process of institutional reform aimed at creating a system of government which works for the people of Northern Ireland whilst respecting the principle of the Belfast Agreement that the Irish Government can have no say in Strand One matters.’
144 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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- 9 December 2025: Institutional Reform following the UK Covid-19 Inquiry Findings - Amendment 1 – The Amendment Was Therefore Agreed
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