Order of Business
The Chair welcomes visiting students, the Leader sets out the day’s business, and the Chamber exchanges light pleasantries before moving on to substantive matters.
I welcome the students from Monkstown national school to the Gallery. They are very welcome and I hope they have a very pleasant visit. In keeping with tradition, I think we should give them homework off today.
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Is that Monkstown in Dublin or Cork?
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They are very welcome to Leinster House. I ask the Leader to outline the business for today.
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Everybody is very welcome to the Chamber. The Order of Business is No. 1, Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 – Report and Final Stages, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to adjourn at 2.45 p.m., if not previously concluded; No. 2, Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 – Committee Stage, resumed, to be taken at 3 p.m. and to adjourn at 5 p.m., if not previously concluded; No. 125, motion 10, Private Members' business, regarding the naming of the new national children's hospital after Dr. Kathleen Lynn, to be taken at 5 p.m. and to adjourn at 6.30 p.m., if not previously concluded; No. 3, Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023 – all Stages, to be taken at 6.30 p.m., with the time allocated to the opening remarks of the Minister on Second Stage not to exceed ten minutes, group spokespersons not to exceed six minutes, all other Senators not to exceed three minutes, and the Minister to be given no less than six minutes to reply to the debate, and Committee and Remaining Stages to be taken immediately thereafter; No. 4, motion regarding the earlier signature of the Social Welfare (Child Benefit) Bill 2023, to be taken on conclusion of No. 3 without debate; and No. 124, motion 1, panel and university Members' forum debate on motion from the National University of Ireland Senators regarding academic precarity, which, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, is to be taken at 8 p.m., or on the conclusion of No. 4, whichever is the later, with the time allocated to this debate not to exceed one hour, the combined speeches of the proposer and the seconder not to exceed 14 minutes, the speech of the Minister not to exceed ten minutes, all other Senators not to exceed four minutes, and the proposer to be given no less than four minutes to reply to the debate.