Order of Business
The Chair welcomes visiting students before the Acting Leader outlines the scheduled business for the day.
Before I call on the Acting Leader to outline the Order of Business, I welcome guests of Senator Eileen Lynch from Coachford College. They are most welcome to Seanad Éireann, and I thank them for being here today. I do not know what class they are. If they are transition year, I am sorry to tell them we give an award of no homework for the rest of the week when they visit Seanad Éireann. If there are any issues, please let me know but that is the rule and the teachers have to comply with the rules of the Senate, just like the Senators do sometimes - not all the time.
I ask the Acting Leader to outline the Order of Business.
Comment on this
The Order of Business is No. 1, Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025 - Order for Committee and Committee Stage, to be taken at 12.45 p.m. and to adjourn at 4.15 p.m. if not previously concluded; No. 2, Critical Infrastructure Bill 2026 - Second Stage, to be taken at 4.15 p.m. and to conclude at 5.45 p.m. if not previously concluded, with the time allocated to the opening remarks of the Minister not to exceed ten minutes, group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes, and all other Senators not to exceed five minutes, time may be shared, and the Minister to be given no less than ten minutes to reply to the debate; and No. 56, motion 1, Private Members' Business, motion regarding the UN International Year of the Woman Farmer, to be taken at 5.45 p.m., with time allocated to this debate not to exceed two hours.