Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Today's business shall be No. 5, Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage and No. 29, Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed). Private Members' business shall be No. 177, motion re motor insurance, selected by the Rural Independent Group.

Wednesday's business shall be No. 30, statements on Northern Ireland, to conclude within 125 minutes, if not previously concluded; No. 10, motion re Ireland's ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to conclude within two hours, if not previously concluded; No. 5, Radiological Protection (Amendment) Bill 2018 - Second Stage, resumed, if not previously concluded; and No. 29, Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad] - Second Stage, resumed, if not previously concluded. Private Members' business shall be No. 50, Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018 - Second Stage, selected by Fianna Fáil. Thursday's business shall be No. 31, statements on Project Ireland 2040, resumed, to adjourn at 5 p.m., if not previously concluded; No. 32, statements on affordable housing, to adjourn at 5 p.m. if not previously concluded; and No. 29, Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad] - Second Stage, resumed, if not previously concluded. No. 11, report on the review of the credit union sector with specific reference to the Credit Union Advisory Committee review of implementation of the recommendations in the Commission on Credit Unions report, June 2016, from the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach shall be debated in the evening slot.

I refer to the report of the Business Committee dated 22 February 2018. In relation to Wednesday's business, it is proposed that (1) Second Stage of the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018 shall conclude within two hours; (2) statements on Northern Ireland shall be confined to a single round for a Minister or Minister of State and the main spokespersons of parties and groups, or a Member nominated in their stead, which shall not exceed 15 minutes each with a five minute response from a Minister or Minister of State and all Members may share time, the statements shall conclude within 125 minutes, if not previously concluded; and (3) on the motion re Ireland's ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in the opening round, speeches of a Minister or Minister of State and the main spokespersons of parties and groups, or a Member nominated in their stead, shall not exceed ten minutes each. The speeches of other Members shall not exceed ten minutes each with a five minute response from a Minister or Minister of State and all Members may share time. The motion shall conclude within two hours, if not previously concluded.

In relation to Thursday's business, it is proposed that (1) statements on Project Ireland 2040, resumed, shall adjourn at 5 p.m., if not previously concluded; and (2) in the opening round, statements on affordable housing of a Minister or Minister of State and the main spokespersons of parties and groups, or a Member nominated in their stead, shall not exceed ten minutes each and those of all other Members shall not exceed ten minutes each with a five minute response from a Minister or Minister of State and all Members may share time. The statements shall adjourn at 5 p.m., if not previously concluded.

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