Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is proposed to take No. 11, motion re proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2011 (back from committee); No. 7, Appropriation Bill 2011 - Order for Second Stage, Second and Subsequent Stages; No. 2, Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011 - amendment from the Seanad; No. 3, Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010 - amendments from the Seanad; No. 6, Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. 8, Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage.

It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that No. 11 shall be decided without debate; No. 7 shall be taken today and the Second and Subsequent Stages shall be decided without debate by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in relation to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform; for the purposes of Standing Order 117A, the first Friday of the month for January 2012 shall be Friday, 13 January; the time and date by which notice of a Bill in connection with that sitting shall be received by the Clerk shall be 11 a.m. on Friday, 6 January 2012, and related Standing Orders shall apply accordingly; and the Dáil shall sit tomorrow at 10.30 a.m. and adjourn not later than 1.30 p.m. and at 10.30 a.m. on that day there shall be an Order of Business within the meaning of Standing Order 26, subject to the proceedings comprehended by paragraphs 2 and 3 of that Standing Order not exceeding 20 minutes.

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