The House has agreed that, for the duration of the Covid crisis, the rapporteur's report on the Business Committee will be taken as read. There are, however, three proposals to be considered by the House. Is the proposal for dealing with Tuesday's business agreed to?

It is not agreed.

It is important we have proper scrutiny with regard to Brexit preparedness and readiness. There are several issues which need Dáil attention. In particular, in the event of a no-deal Brexit, we need to look at contingency issues with regard to price inflation and how that would affect low and middle-income households. Several issues relating to the UK land bridge are arising in terms of potential delays at Dublin Port, Holyhead, Dover and Calais. There is the potential for non-green laning of Irish trucks with the French not having the technical capability to do that.

We have seen the UK publish its national audit of preparedness and readiness for Brexit. We need to see the Irish audit of readiness and preparation for Brexit published soon. We need a question and answer session on Brexit this week in the Dáil.

I agree. I also want to register my concerns for the readiness for the fishing industry and the serious losses that will impact it, as well as connectivity with Europe and the cross-border health directive. We need a debate on these. We are being held on a string with the EU cross-border health directive. Thousands have travelled to use health services but we understand the scheme will now be handed back to the HSE, which failed the people in the first instance.

We need to debate those issues in the Parliament this week or certainly on this side of Christmas. After that, it is into January. Then it will be all out the gap and at the mercy of the waves. We need a debate on those issues.

I thank the Deputies for raising the issue. The necessity for a debate on Brexit preparedness is a fair point. We must be honest too. We did have a good debate in the context of the Brexit omnibus Bill that went through the House two weeks ago. Various Ministers took that Bill in respect of their various areas of responsibility in terms of preparations and decisions we have taken for Brexit.

Even in the event of a deal, we are still facing a significant degree of disruption. One is going from 1.5 million customs declarations per annum prior to Brexit to 20 million per annum, even in the context of a trade deal. The enormity of this cannot be understated. Notwithstanding the fact that approximately 72,000 companies have registered with Revenue, representing 97% of the value of our exports, quite a significant number of SMEs have not registered and are not prepared. There has been a low take-up of the €9,000 grant to facilitate companies to employ someone to help them with their customs issues.

Whether we could do it next week might be a problem. I have to go on Wednesday afternoon for the Council meeting on Thursday and Friday. I must alert the House to the fact that we could be very well discussing preparations for a no-deal Brexit. The situation is serious in terms of where we are now. This is not about choreography, as some people might think. There is a very serious issue with respect to the level playing field that will be difficult to resolve. Unfortunately, we are facing the prospect of a no-deal Brexit if something does not break that over the next day or two. That is why I have no difficulty in accepting the request.

I welcome the decision of the British Government to pull back and withdraw the offending clauses of the internal market Bill, as well as not to proceed with the offending clauses in the taxation Bill later this week. That paves the way for the operation of the protocol and the withdrawal agreement which the European Commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, and Michael Gove have been negotiating for quite some time.

Those negotiations went smoothly over the past two weeks and a lot of difficulties have been ironed out. On that front and in that strand of the talks, it is positive in terms of the all-island economy and the Border issue. However, of great significance, as Deputy Mattie McGrath stated, are the implications of the UK-EU future trading relationship, which will be a major challenge for us and which will have implications for fisheries, for the agrifood business, in particular, for the west of Ireland and for the Border counties if we end up in the next week or so with no deal.

It would appear appropriate, in light of what the Taoiseach said and what the Members have raised, that the Business Committee would look at setting additional time aside next week for the debates referred to. Can I take it, therefore, that Tuesday's business is now-----

I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Perhaps a Friday sitting might be necessary. We have only two more sitting weeks before Christmas and we need to deal with this very urgent situation.

I will be in Brussels on Friday.

Next week then.

Is Tuesday's business agreed? Agreed. We are generally agreed in principle that next week we will provide additional time if necessary. Are Wednesday's proposals agreed to?