Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Today's business shall be No. a11, motion re proposed authorisation by Dáil Éireann for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to instruct legal representatives; No. 30, Social Welfare Bill 2017 - Second Stage (resumed); No. 5, Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; No. 12, Financial Resolution re Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017; and No. 1, Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad] - Second Stage.

Tomorrow's business shall be No. 11, motion re Supplementary Estimates - leave to introduce; No. 11a, motion re referral of Supplementary Estimates to committee; No. 30, Social Welfare Bill 2017 - Second Stage (resumed), if not previously concluded; No. 5, Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017 - Second Stage (resumed), if not previously concluded; No. 12, Financial Resolution re Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017; No. 31, Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016 - Report Stage (resumed); and No. 1, Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed), if not previously concluded. Private Members' business, to be selected by Sinn Féin, is to be confirmed.

Thursday’s business shall be No. 13, motion re European Defence Agency; No. 1, Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed), if not previously concluded; No. 2, Intoxicating Liquor (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad] - Second Stage; and No. 32, Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017 - Second Stage (resumed). Second Stage of No. 49, University College Galway (Amendment) Bill 2017, will be debated in the evening slot.

I refer to the revised report of the Business Committee, dated 28 November 2017. In relation to today's business, it is proposed that:

(1) the motion re proposed authorisation by Dáil Éireann for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to instruct legal representatives shall be taken without debate and that any division demanded shall be taken immediately;

(2) any division demanded at the conclusion of Second Stage of the Social Welfare Bill 2017 and the Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017 shall be taken immediately;

(3) the Financial Resolution re the Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017 shall be taken without debate at the conclusion of Second Stage of the Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017 and that any division demanded shall be taken immediately;

(4) Private Members’ business shall not be taken and that the sequence pursuant to Standing Order 143F shall continue with Sinn Féin tomorrow.

In relation to tomorrow's business, it is proposed that the motions re Supplementary Estimates, subject to leave being given and referral to select committee, shall be taken without debate and that any division demanded thereon shall be taken immediately.

In relation to Thursday’s business, it is proposed that the motion re the European Defence Agency shall be taken after questions on promised legislation and shall conclude within 40 minutes. Contributions shall be confined to a single round of five minutes each for speeches by a Minister or a Minister of State and the main spokespersons for parties or groups and any division demanded thereon shall be taken immediately. All Members may share time. The weekly voting block shall take place at the conclusion of the debate on the motion.

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