Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

It is proposed to take No. 8a, Finance Bill 2006 — allocation of time motion for Select Committee; No. 8b, Finance Bill 2006 — Financial Resolutions; No. 1a, Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2006 — Order for Second Stage and Second and Subsequent Stages; No. 14, Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad] — Second Stage (Resumed); and No. 1, Building Control Bill 2005 — Second Stage (Resumed).

It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: (1) Nos. 8a and 8b shall be decided without debate, and in the case of No. 8b, Financial Resolutions, Nos. 1 to 42, shall be moved together and decided by one question which shall be put from the Chair; (2) the proceedings on No. 1a shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after one hour 35 minutes and the following arrangements shall apply: (i) the proceedings on Second Stage shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 65 minutes; the speeches shall be confined to a Minister or Minister of State and to the main spokespersons for the Fine Gael Party, the Labour Party and the Technical Group, who shall be called upon in that order and who may share their time, and shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case; and a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed five minutes; (ii) the proceedings on Committee and Remaining Stages shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 30 minutes by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, with regard to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Education and Science.

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