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Order of Business

Summary

The Leader sets out the day’s business: the Protected Disclosures Bill, a grocery-sector committee report, and the Missing Persons Bill.

The Order of Business is No. 1, Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 - Report and Final Stages, to be taken at the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2, motion on the report of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine entitled, Report on the Grocery Goods Sector: Increasing Equity and Transparency in Producer-Processor-Retailer Relationships, to be taken at 3 p.m. and conclude not later than 4.30 p.m.; and No. 3, Private Members' business, Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2013 - Second Stage, to be taken at 6.30 p.m. and conclude not later than 8.30 p.m. The reason the Bill is being taken so late is the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, is not available to take it until that time and wants to be here to deal with it.

I am proposing that we cancel business for tomorrow when we were due to take Report Stage of the Companies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. Committee Stage was taken yesterday, during which it was outlined that a number of new amendments were to be introduced on Report Stage. To give Members a chance to examine these amendments and, if they wish, table their own, I am proposing, at the request of Senator Thomas Byrne, that we take Report Stage next week, not tomorrow. Also, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, was due to come into the House tomorrow for statements, but I am told she will be delayed in the other House and unable to attend. As we do not have any other business ordered, I do not propose to deal with any business tomorrow.

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