Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

It is proposed to take No. 12, Road Safety Authority Bill 2004 — Report Stage (resumed) and Final Stage; No. 13 — Employment Permits Bill 2005 — Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 14 — statements on Sellafield, to be taken at 5.55 p.m. and the order shall not resume thereafter. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 14 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7 p.m. and the following arrangements shall apply: the statements 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 statement in reply which shall not exceed five minutes. Private Members' business shall be No. 28, Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2006 — Second Stage, resumed, to conclude at 8.30 p.m.

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