Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

It is proposed to take No. 20, Inland Fisheries Bill 2009 - Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. 19, Road Traffic Bill 2009 - Second Stage (resumed); No. 21 - statements on the final report of the Joint Committee on Constitutional Amendment on Children, to be taken not later than 1.30 p.m. today and the order shall not resume thereafter. It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that (1) the following arrangements shall apply in regard to No. 21: (i) the statements of the Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children and of the main spokespersons for Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Sinn Féin, who shall be called upon in that order, shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case; (ii) the statements of each other member called upon shall not exceed ten minutes in each case; (iii) members may share time; and (iv) a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which shall not exceed ten minutes; (2) the Dáil on its rising today shall adjourn until 2.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 23 March 2010.

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