Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

It is proposed to take No. a26, statements on Haiti; No. 26, Adoption Bill 2009 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); No. 27, Civil Partnership Bill 2009 - Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the proceedings on No. a26 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a 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 Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Sinn Féin, who shall be called upon in that order and who may share their time, which shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case. A Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which shall not exceed five minutes.

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