Order of Business
The Taoiseach proposes the day’s legislative schedule and late sitting arrangements; the House agrees to the first proposals but Deputy Adams objects to the Strategic Banking Corporation Bill timetable.
The Order of Business is No. 27, State Airports (Shannon Group) Bill 2014 [Seanad] - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 24, National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Bill 2014 - Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; and No. 25, Forestry Bill 2013 - Order for Report Stage and Report and Final Stages. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. tonight and shall adjourn not later than 10 p.m.; in the event a division is in progress at the time fixed for taking Private Members' business, which shall be No. 154, motion re free travel (resumed), Standing Order 121(3) shall not apply and Private Members' business shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 90 minutes; tomorrow’s business after oral questions shall be No. 4, Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014 - Order for Second Stage, Second and Remaining Stages; it is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings on the Second Stage of No. 4 on that day shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after two hours and five minutes and shall be confined to the opening speeches of a Minister or Minister of State and of the main spokespersons for Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Technical Group, who shall be called upon in that order, and who may share their time, and to a speech in reply by a Minister or Minister of State which shall not exceed five minutes; and the proceedings on the Committee and Remaining Stages shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 4.42 p.m. on that day by one Question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in relation to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Finance.
Comment on this
There are three proposals to be put to the House. Is the proposal for dealing with the late sitting agreed to? Agreed. Is the proposal for dealing with Private Members' business agreed to? Agreed. Is the proposal for dealing with No. 4, Order for Second Stage, Second and Remaining Stages of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland Bill 2014, agreed to?
