The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and the Council on the protection of the euro and other currencies against counterfeiting by criminal law and replacing Council Framework Decision 2000/383/JHA, back from the joint committee to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business without debate; No. 2, motion regarding EU scrutiny work programme 2013, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 1 without debate; and No. 3, National Lottery Bill 2012 - Report Stage, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 2. I remind the House of the address tomorrow by the EU Commissioner, Ms Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, at 12.30 p.m. To facilitate a prompt start to the address I hope all Members will be in their seats for 12.30 p.m.

I am glad to see the National Lottery Bill will be debated today. We have had a week between Committee and Report Stages, which is a positive step for the Seanad. Will we debate No. 2?

No.

I shall not call a vote on the first issue that I wish to raise. I urge the Leader to arrange a debate on the motion set out in No. 2 on the Order Paper. Every day that one comes into the Seanad there are calls for us to deal with the scrutiny of European legislation. Today we have been asked to adopt, without debate, the EU scrutiny work programme 2013 of the Oireachtas joint committees' priorities. I appeal to the Leader to reconsider his proposal and to arrange a debate. For some considerable time Members on both sides have called for an opportunity to scrutinise EU legislation. The least that we can do is to debate a motion and not just an item that is laid down in the Order Paper. It seems completely illogical and somewhat farcical that we have calls every day to adopt issues yet a motion to adopt an EU scrutiny work programme is proposed to be adopted without debate.

The motion is going through the Dáil as well.