I move:

Tuesday's business shall be:

- Motion re Referral to Joint Committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of a Carbon Budget Programme (to be taken without debate)

- Motion re Presentation and Circulation of Revised and Further Revised Estimates 2025 (any division demanded shall be taken immediately)

- Statements on Assessment of Need (not to exceed 3 hrs and 32 mins)

Tuesday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Assessment of Needs, selected by Sinn Féin.

Wednesday's business shall be:

- Motion re Membership of the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight (to be taken without debate)

- Statements on Gaza (not to exceed 3 hrs and 32 mins)

- Statements to Mark Biodiversity Week (not to exceed 2 hrs and 25 mins)

- Motion re Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 9(2)) (Amount of Financial Contribution) Order 2025 (to be taken no earlier than 6.30 p.m. and to conclude within 60 mins)

- Motions for Revised Estimates for Public Services 2025 [Votes 25 and 40] (to be moved together and decided by one question, and to conclude within 60 minutes)

- Motion for Further Revised Estimate for Public Services 2025 [Vote 24] (to conclude within 60 minutes)

Wednesday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support, selected by the Independent Technical Group.

Thursday's business shall be Statements on Delivering a world class education system, which breaks down barriers and ensures every child can achieve their full potential (not to exceed 2 hrs 25 mins).

Thursday evening business shall be the Second Stage of the Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024, sponsored by Deputy Joanna Byrne.

Proposed Arrangements for this week’s business:

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

1. the ordinary routine of business as contained in Schedule 3 to Standing Orders shall be modified to the following extent:

(a) the Dáil may sit later than 10.48 p.m.;

(b) the time allotted for Government Business shall be extended in accordance with the arrangements for that business, with consequential effect on the commencement time for private members' business, which may be taken later than 6.12 p.m.; and

(c) private members’ time shall in any event be taken on the conclusion of the Statements on Assessment of Need, with consequential effect on the commencement times for the items following in the ordinary routine of business, namely, Parliamentary Questions to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and topical issues;

2. the proceedings on the Motion re Referral to Joint Committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of a Carbon Budget Programme shall be taken without debate;

3. the proceedings on the Motion re Presentation and Circulation of Revised and Further Revised Estimates 2025 shall be taken without debate and any division claimed thereon shall be taken immediately; and

4. the Statements on Assessment of Need shall not exceed 3 hours and 32 minutes and the order of speaking and allocation of time shall be as follows:

(a) the arrangements for the statements, not including the Ministerial response, shall be in accordance with the arrangements contained in the table immediately below (to be read across, not down);

(b) following the statements, a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which shall not exceed 10 minutes; and

(c) members may share time.

Are the proposed arrangements-----

Not agreed.

Not agreed.

I call Deputy Mac Lochlainn.

We read with interest the comments of the Taoiseach's Government's kingmaker, Michael Lowry, in The Sunday Times, where he boasted about the rota of Ministers who come before his group. He chairs those meetings.

Is it not about time the Government published the deal it did with Michael Lowry's group for the programme for Government and took statements and questions and full accountability about the deal it did with Michael Lowry?

Deputy, please.

There is an unbelievable lack of legislation from the Government, which is a huge problem. Will the Taoiseach state when we will see the occupied territories Bill and the timeline to enact it? Is it the Government's intention to have it enacted before the summer recess?

The average rent is now more than €2,000 a month. Rents are rising faster than ever. It is a nightmare for renters and it is getting worse. The Minister for housing is speaking to the media, saying there has to be a change in the rent pressure zones. Extra fear is being felt by these renters that a landlords' government will allow landlords to hike their rents even faster. It is happening in the media; it is not happening here. Every week over the past month or so, I have been asking for statements on housing-----

Thank you, Deputy. It is 30 seconds.

The Minister needs to come into the House, outline his plans and allow them to be debated.

Communities throughout Ireland are in huge fear as they await flood relief schemes. Many of these communities just need simple river cleaning before their houses are flooded again. The bottom line is that we need a debate. I have been promised it might happen soon but I have been looking for a debate for the past number of weeks. We need an urgent debate. We never know when a flood will strike. The sun is shining right now but it might not continue. People are living in terror that their homes will be flooded again.

Under Standing Order 35(3), I would like to propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for housing come into the House and take questions on the housing emergency. It can no longer be called a crisis; it is an absolute disaster. Commencements of residential units have collapsed to a ten-year low. The Government's plan is failing disastrously. Does the Minister have any-----

Thank you. Deputy. Which section do you propose to amend?

-----ideas to turn this around? He needs to come into this House and tell us his plans.

Similarly, under Standing Order 35(3), I wish to move an amendment to the Order of Business-----

To which section?

-----to ensure that at the end of Thursday's business we have statements on the Government's deal with Michael Lowry and that the Taoiseach and Tánaiste make statements and take questions and give full-----

Thank you, Deputy. We will come back-----

-----clarity and transparency. What is the relationship with Cabinet?

Deputy, you have made your point.

What is this rota of Ministers? What deal was struck?

On the questions that dealt specifically with the Order of Business for this week, I inform Deputy Collins that I have been in talks regarding statements on flood relief.

Michael Lowry.

I will update him at the Business Committee meeting on Thursday.

On legislation, next week we will have Second Stage of the Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2024 from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. We will also have Order for Report, Report and Final Stages of the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024. I remind all Deputies that any Opposition Deputy is entitled to bring forward legislation if they so wish.