Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is proposed to take No. 15a, Access to Central Treasury Funds (Commission for Energy Regulation) Bill 2011 [Seanad] - Committee and Remaining Stages; No. 16, statements on the 2010 annual report of the national review panel on serious incidents including deaths of children in care, to adjourn at 2.30 p.m. if not previously concluded; and No. 17, Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed).

It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the following arrangements shall apply with regard to No. 16: the statements of a Minister or Minister of State and of the main spokespersons for Fianna Fail, Sinn Féin and the Technical Group, who shall be called upon in that order, shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case, the statement of each other Member called upon shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case, Members may share time and a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which shall not exceed five minutes.

It is also proposed in respect of the Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (No. 2) Bill 2011, the Second Stage of which shall be considered tomorrow, that the following arrangements shall apply: the opening speeches of the main spokespersons for Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and the Technical Group and of a Minister or Minister of State, 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 15 minutes in each case, Members may share time, a Minister or Minister of State, who may speak twice, shall be called upon not later than 1 p.m. to make a speech which shall not exceed 15 minutes, and the main spokesperson for Fianna Fáil shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed 15 minutes.

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