Séamus Brennan (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)

It is proposed to take No. 12a, Finance Bill 2007, allocation of time motion for select committee; No. 12b, Finance Bill 2007 — Financial Resolutions, No. 24, statements on the national development plan; and No. 4, the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007 — Order for Second Stage and Second Stage.

It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 4.45 p.m. tonight and business shall be interrupted not later than 6 p.m, Nos. 12a and 12b shall be decided without debate and, in the case of No. 12b, Financial Resolutions, Nos. 1 to 36 shall be moved together and decided by one question which shall be put from the Chair. The proceedings on No. 24 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to conclusion after 65 minutes 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, which 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. The Second Stage of No. 4 shall be taken today and the proceedings thereon shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 6 p.m. tonight.

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