Tuesday's business shall be No. 8, motion re parliamentary questions rota change; No. 19, statements on Catalonia; and No. 4, Finance Bill 2017 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. Private Members' Business shall be No. 140, motion re national housing emergency, selected by the Social Democrats-Green Party group.

Wednesday's business shall be No. 4, Finance Bill 2017 - Second Stage (resumed); No. 20, statements on the national planning framework; and No. 21, post-European Council statements. Private Members' Business shall be No. 141, motion re tracker mortgages, selected by Fianna Fáil.

Thursday's business shall be No. 4, Finance Bill 2017 - Second Stage (resumed, if not previously concluded); No. 20, statements on the national planning framework; No. 8a, motion re Financial Resolutions for the Finance Bill 2017; and No. 5, Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage.

Fógra maidir leis na socruithe atá molta maidir le gnó na seachtaine seo; I refer to the first revised report of the Business Committee dated 19 October 2017.

In relation to Tuesday's business, it is proposed that:

(1) The motion re parliamentary questions rota change will be taken without debate;

(2) There shall be no Oral Questions to the Taoiseach under Standing Order 39, and Oral Questions to the Minister for Finance shall take place immediately after the motion re parliamentary questions rota change;

(3) There shall be no Topical Issues under Standing Order 29A; and

(4) The statements on Catalonia will commence immediately after questions to the Minister for Finance and shall be brought to a conclusion after 80 minutes, if not previously concluded. The statements shall be confined to a single round for a Minister or Minister of State and the main spokespersons for parties or groups, or a Member nominated in their stead and shall not exceed ten minutes each, and all Members may share time.

Maidir le gnó Dé Céadaoin, is é atá molta:

(1) The Dáil shall sit at 10 a.m.

(2) The statements of a Minister or Minister of State and the main spokespersons for parties or groups, or a Member nominated in their stead, on the national planning framework shall not exceed ten minutes each. The statement of each other Member called upon shall not exceed five minutes in each case and all Members may share time.

(3) The post-European Council statements shall commence immediately after Taoiseach's Questions and will be followed by questions to the Minister for Education and Skills. The statements shall be brought to a conclusion after 1 hour and 45 minutes, if not previously concluded. The statements shall be confined to a single round for a Minister or Minister of State and the main spokespersons for parties or groups, or a Member nominated in their stead, and shall not exceed ten minutes each. A Minister or Minister of State shall take questions for a period not exceeding 20 minutes, with a five minute response from the Minister or Minister of State and all Members may share time.

(4) The Dáil shall sit later than 10.15 p.m. and shall adjourn not later than 11 p.m.

Maidir le gnó an Déardaoin, is é atá molta:

(1) The Dáil shall sit at 10 a.m.

(2) The Financial Resolutions for the Finance Bill 2017 shall be moved together and decided without debate by one question, and any division demanded thereon shall be taken immediately.

(3) There shall be a suspension of sitting on the conclusion of the voting block for 30 minutes.

(4) If proceedings on Second Stage of the Finance Bill 2017 conclude after the voting block on Thursday, any division demanded shall be taken immediately.

(5) Questions to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government shall be taken not later than 6 p.m. Statements on the national planning framework, if not previously concluded, shall be taken for not more than two hours following Topical Issues, and neither a committee report nor a Private Members' Bill shall be taken. The Dáil shall sit later than 7.48 p.m. and shall adjourn after statements on the national planning framework, or Topical Issues, whichever is the later.

(6) The Dáil, on its rising, shall adjourn until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 7 November 2017.

There are three proposals to be considered by the House. Is the proposal for dealing with today's business agreed to? Agreed. Is the proposal for dealing with business on Wednesday as outlined agreed to?

I have one question on tomorrow's business. During Leaders' Question, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade said that the Minister for Finance would make a statement on the tracker mortgage scandal. Is it envisaged that this will happen during Fianna Fáil Private Members' time or will there be a separate statement in the House during Government time?

My understanding is that it will happen during Private Members' time. However, the Minister will take Oral Questions later this afternoon and will also deal with those issues at that time.

Will that be before his statement?

That is today. My understanding is that tomorrow he will make a statement during Private Members' time.

It is unusual for the Minister to make a formal statement on a major issue such as this during Opposition time.

Unusual, but one would expect that it is necessary and appropriate.

There should be a separate statement and we should be given the opportunity to ask questions.

These matters have been agreed.

We have just heard from the Minister that the Minister for Finance intends to make a formal statement on an issue in respect of which Members have been engaged in debate for the past two weeks.

The relevant Minister always has ten or 15 minutes to contribute to every Private Members' debate.

We have the business proposal before us. We are either agreeing to it or we are not. Can I take it that the proposal for Wednesday's business is agreed? Agreed. I understand the Minister of State, Deputy McHugh, intends to propose an amendment to the Order for Thursday's business.

I propose that the statements on the national planning framework by each Member other than the party leaders called upon after the opening round shall not exceed ten minutes in each case.

So additional time is being made available.

Yes.

Is the Minister of State's proposal agreed to? Agreed. In light of that, is the proposal for Thursday's business agreed to?

No. We would like to propose that the Business Committee be convened later to discuss two amendments to the Order of Business for Thursday. First, given that Saturday is the fifth anniversary of the death of Savita Halappanavar and in view of the fact that Thursday is the closest Dáil sitting day to that, we would like the committee to consider that a minute's silence be organised in the House on that day in her memory. Second, given that there is to be a national rail strike next Wednesday - the first of five strike days - and that the Dáil is not sitting next week and in light of the fact that there are strong indications that the CEO of Irish Rail, with the support of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, collapsed the talks last week, time should be set aside that day to discuss the national rail crisis.