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Dáil
‹ Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion

Order of Business

Summary

The Minister of State moved the motion setting the rota for parliamentary questions to Government Ministers.

Mary Butler Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach Fianna Fáil

I move:

That—

(1) the rota in which Questions shall be addressed to members of the Government pursuant to Standing Order 48(2) shall be as follows:

1. Minister for Foreign Affairs

2. Minister for Finance

3. Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform

4. Minister for Education

5. Minister for Defence

6. Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications

7. Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

8. Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment

9. Minister for Social Protection

10. Minister for Transport

11. Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media

12. Minister for Health

13. Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage

14. Minister for Justice

15. Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

16. Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science

17. Minister for Rural and Community Development; and

(2) notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1), setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those set down to the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:

Minister for Defence

Minister for Education

whereupon the sequence established in paragraph (1), shall continue with Questions to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications.

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