Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

It is proposed to take No. 5, motion re report of the Standing Order 103 Select Committee on the proposal for a Council directive on a common consolidated corporate tax base, COM (2011) 121. It is also proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that: (1) the Dáil shall sit later than 8.30 p.m. and business shall be interrupted on the adjournment of Private Members' business which shall be No. 19, motion re Dublin and Monaghan bombings, which shall take place at 7 p.m. or at the conclusion of No. 5, whichever is the later, and which shall adjourn after 90 minutes; (2) the proceedings on No. 5 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 7 p.m. by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in regard to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Finance, and the following arrangements shall apply: the speeches of the Chairman of the Standing Order 103 Select Committee and the main spokespersons for Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Technical Group who shall be called upon in that order shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case; the speeches of each other Member called upon shall not exceed ten minutes in each case; Members may share time; a Minister or a Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed ten minutes; and amendments proposed to the motion may include those that substitute, add to or otherwise vary the reasons for opinion set out in paragraphs 6 to 10 of the report of the Standing Order 103 Select Committee; and (3) the Dáil on its rising today shall adjourn until 1.30 p.m. tomorrow and the following arrangements shall apply: there shall be no suspension of sitting under Standing Order 23(1); and questions for oral answer to other members of the Government shall be taken at the conclusion of questions for oral answer to the Taoiseach and shall conclude after 75 minutes.

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