Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It is proposed to take No. 4, European Union Bill 2009 - Order for Second Stage and Second and Subsequent Stages; and No. 23, Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 - Second Stage (resumed).

It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 8.30 p.m. tonight and business shall be interrupted on the conclusion of Private Members' business, which shall be No. 67, motion re Government charges on businesses (resumed), which shall be taken for 90 minutes at 7 p.m. or on the conclusion of No. 4, whichever is the later; Second and Subsequent Stages of No. 4 shall be taken today and the following arrangements shall apply: the proceedings on Second Stage shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 6 p.m. tonight; the proceedings on the Committee and Remaining Stages shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7 p.m. tonight by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall include only those amendments set down or accepted by the Minister for Foreign Affairs; and the Dáil, on its rising today, shall adjourn until 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 3 November 2009.

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