Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

-----No. 12, motion re presentation and circulation of Revised Estimates 2010; No. 12a , Finance Bill 2010 - Financial Resolutions; No. 12b, Finance Bill 2010 - allocation of time motion for select committee; No. 13, motion of re re-appointment of An Coimisneir Teanga - back from committee; No. 23 Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2009 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed); No. 5, George Mitchell Scholarship Fund (Amendment) Bill 2010 - Order for Second Stage, Second and Subsequent Stages; and No. 4, Road Traffic Bill 2009 - Second Stage (resumed).

It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that Nos. b12, 12, 12a and 12b shall be decided without debate and any division demanded on No. 12 shall be taken forthwith; and in the case of No. 12a, the Financial Resolutions Nos. 1-52 shall be moved together and decided by one question which shall be put from the Chair. The proceedings of No. 13 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 25 minutes and the following arrangements shall apply. The speeches 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, who may share their time, and which shall not exceed five minutes in each case. A Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed five minutes.

The Second and Subsequent Stages of No. 5 shall be taken today and the following arrangements shall apply. The proceedings on the Second Stage shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 3 p.m. today; the opening speeches of a Minister or Minister of State and of the main spokespersons for Fine Gael and the Labour Party, who shall be called upon in that order, shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case. The speech of each other member called upon shall not exceed 10 minutes in each case, Members may share time and a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed ten minutes.

The proceedings on the Committee and Subsequent Stages shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 3.30 p.m. today by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, with regard to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Education and Science.

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