Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Today's business shall be No. 8, motion re Nineteenth Report of the Committee of Selection, to be taken without debate; No. 9, motion re parliamentary questions rota swap between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, to be taken without debate; and No. 1, Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be No. 181, motion re fodder crisis, selected by Fianna Fáil.

Wednesday's business shall be expressions of sympathy on the death of our former colleague, Peter Mathews; No. a27, Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Committee and Remaining Stages; No. 1, Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad] Second Stage, resumed, if not previously concluded; and No. 5, Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018, Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be Second Stage of No. 48, Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018, selected by Solidarity-People Before Profit.

Thursday's business shall be No. 1, Data Protection Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Second Stage, resumed, if not previously concluded; No. 5, Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage; and No. 27, statements on plastic and packaging pollution, to be taken not later than 3.40 p.m. and to conclude within 80 minutes, if not previously concluded. Second Stage of No. 49, Extreme Weather (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2018, shall be debated in the evening slot.

I refer to the third revised report of the Business Committee, dated 16 April 2018. In relation to today's business, it is proposed that the motion re Nineteenth report of the Committee of Selection and the motion re parliamentary questions rota swap shall be taken without debate and any division demanded shall be taken immediately.

In relation to Wednesday's business, it is proposed that:

(1) the expressions of sympathy shall take place after Questions on Promised Legislation, shall be followed by Taoiseach's Questions, shall be brought to a conclusion after 20 minutes if not previously concluded, and each contribution shall not exceed two minutes;

(2) the proceedings on Second Stage of the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 shall conclude within two hours, if not previously concluded; and

(3) the Order of the Dáil of 29 March 2018 referring the Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad] to a select committee be discharged and the Third Stage of the Bill be taken in committee of the whole Dáil on Wednesday, 18 April 2018, with Committee and Remaining Stages to adjourn after 90 minutes if not previously concluded, and in the event that Second Stage of the Copyright and Other Intellectual Property Law Provisions Bill 2018 concludes, the order shall not resume thereafter.

In relation to Thursday's business, it is proposed that the statements on plastic and packaging pollution shall commence not later than 3.40 p.m. and shall conclude after 80 minutes, if not previously concluded, and the order shall not resume thereafter. Statements shall be confined to a single round for a Minister or Minister of State and the main spokesperson of parties and groups and shall not exceed ten minutes each, and all members may share time.

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