Today's business shall be No. 8, motion re Nineteenth Report of the Committee of Selection, to be taken without debate; No. 9, motion re parliamentary questions rota swap between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, to be taken without debate; and No. 1, Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 181, motion re fodder crisis, selected by Fianna Fáil.

Wednesday's business shall be expressions of sympathy on the death of our former colleague, Peter Mathews; No. a27, Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Committee and Remaining Stages; No. 1, Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad] Second Stage, resumed, if not previously concluded; and No. 5, Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018, Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be Second Stage of No. 48, Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018, selected by Solidarity-People Before Profit.

Thursday's business shall be No. 1, Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Second Stage, resumed, if not previously concluded; No. 5, Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. 27, statements on plastic and packaging pollution, to be taken not later than 3.40 p.m. and to conclude within 80 minutes, if not previously concluded. Second Stage of No. 49, Extreme Weather (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018, shall be debated in the evening slot.

I refer to the third revised report of the Business Committee, dated 16 April 2018. In relation to today's business, it is proposed that the motion re Nineteenth report of the Committee of Selection and the motion re parliamentary questions rota swap shall be taken without debate and any division demanded shall be taken immediately.

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

(1) the expressions of sympathy shall take place after Questions on Promised Legislation, shall be followed by Taoiseach's Questions, shall be brought to a conclusion after 20 minutes if not previously concluded, and each contribution shall not exceed two minutes;

(2) the proceedings on Second Stage of the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 shall conclude within two hours, if not previously concluded; and

(3) the Order of the Dáil of 29 March 2018 referring the Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad] to a select committee be discharged and the Third Stage of the Bill be taken in committee of the whole Dáil on Wednesday, 18 April 2018, with Committee and Remaining Stages to adjourn after 90 minutes if not previously concluded, and in the event that Second Stage of the Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018 concludes, the order shall not resume thereafter.

In relation to Thursday's business, it is proposed that the statements on plastic and packaging pollution shall commence not later than 3.40 p.m. and shall conclude after 80 minutes, if not previously concluded, and the order shall not resume thereafter. Statements shall be confined to a single round for a Minister or Minister of State and the main spokesperson of parties and groups and shall not exceed ten minutes each, and all members may share time.

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

No. I think we need to have a debate on Syria today, or for two hours at approximately 6 p.m. tomorrow. In excess of 100 missiles were fired by the US, France and Britain at the weekend on the pretext that it was a response to an abhorrent chemical weapons attack. The conflict in Syria is a gross humanitarian catastrophe. More than 500,000 people have been killed and millions of people have been displaced. Those responsible are the dictator Assad, the various jihadi groups-----

We cannot have a debate now.

-----and the outside forces of western imperialism and Russian imperialism on the other side. The problem is that the world is heading to a very dangerous place. The Government is seeking to line up this country with western imperialism. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade has said he can understand why the military action took place. We have not had a debate on this.

Deputy, please. We cannot have the debate now.

We need a full parliamentary debate about this.

If the Deputy is calling for a debate, that is okay. The Deputy and his Solidarity-People Before Profit colleagues have Private Members' business tomorrow evening.

We do.

They could allocate the two hours available for Private Members' time tomorrow evening to this issue, if they wish. I have allocated two Topical Issues slots to this matter today.

It is not the same thing.

It should be discussed.

I do not know whether the Government is minded to provide additional time, as has been requested.

It is a matter for the Business Committee.

We welcome the decision to select this matter for discussion during Topical Issues, but there is a difference between a two-hour debate in which parties set out their positions on an issue like this, which is particularly serious in light of the Government's record on neutrality-----

The Deputy and his colleagues have two hours to allocate to this issue during Private Members' time tomorrow evening.

We do but there is also a difference between Private Members' time and Government time. The Government has taken the decision to support-----

All right. Is the Government prepared to give that time? There is not much point in convening a Business Committee to discuss something if-----

I understand there are two questions on this being taken. If the Deputy believes it requires more than that, I suggest he and his colleagues use their Private Members' time for it.

That is really insulting. The Government is taking a position.

We can only have one leader per group.

Is it expelling any more diplomats?

Is the proposal for dealing with Wednesday's business agreed to? Agreed. Is the proposal for dealing with Thursday's business agreed to? Agreed.