Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

It is proposed to take No. a5, Appropriation Bill 2009 - Order for Second Stage, Second and Remaining Stages; No. 5 - Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2009 - Second and Remaining Stages (resumed); and No. 6 - Forestry (Amendment) Bill 2009 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. 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 Question Time, which shall be taken for 75 minutes at 9.15 p.m. and in the event of a private notice question being allowed, it shall be taken after 45 minutes; and the order shall not resume thereafter; No. a5 shall be taken today and the Second and Remaining Stages shall be decided without debate by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in respect of amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Finance; the following arrangements shall apply in respect of No. 5: the proceedings on the resumed Second Stage shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 1 p.m. today; the proceedings on the Committee and Remaining Stages shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7 p.m. today by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in respect of amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Finance; Private Members' business, which shall be No. 96, motion re social welfare cuts (resumed), shall be taken at 7 p.m. or on the conclusion of No. 5, whichever is the later; and shall be brought to a conclusion after 90 minutes.

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