Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

It is proposed to take No. 10a, Air Navigation (Eurocontrol) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: instruction to committee; No. 15, statements on report of the Lourdes hospital inquiry; and No. 10b, all-party motion supporting a full inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, to be taken at 6.30 p.m. and the order shall not resume thereafter.

It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 10a shall be decided without debate; the proceedings on No. 15 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 6.30 p.m. and the following arrangements shall apply: the statements of a Minister or Minister of State and of the main spokespersons for Fine Gael, the Labour Party and the Technical Group, who shall be called upon in that order, shall not exceed 20 minutes in each case; the statements of each other Member called upon shall not exceed ten minutes in each case; Members may share time; and a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which shall not exceed ten minutes.

The proceedings on No. 10b shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7 p.m. and the following arrangements shall apply: the speeches shall be confined to the following Members, who shall be called upon in the following sequence, who may share their time, and the speeches in each case shall not exceed the time indicated: Fianna Fáil, five minutes; Fine Gael, five minutes; the Labour Party, five minutes; the Progressive Democrats, five minutes; the Green Party, five minutes; and Sinn Féin, five minutes. Private Members' business shall be No. 47, motion re Whistleblowers Protection Bill 1999, resumed, to conclude at 8.30 p.m.

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