Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move:

Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion reSeventeenth Report of the Committee of Selection (without debate)

- Motion reFinancial Resolution for Tailte Éireann Bill 2022 (without debate)

- Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 (Second Stage) (to conclude within three hours and 40 minutes)

- Employment Permits Bill 2022 (Second Stage) (will only be taken if Second Stage of the Electricity Costs Bill concludes before 8 p.m.; if reached, will be adjourned at 8 p.m.) Private Members' Business shall be the Motion re Disability Services, selected by Sinn Féin.

Wednesday’s business shall be: - Motion re Leave to Introduce Supplementary Estimates [Votes 29 and 40] (without debate)

- Employment Permits Bill 2022 (Second Stage)*

- Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 (Second Stage)*

- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 (Second Stage)*

- Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 (Committee and remaining Stages) (to be taken no earlier than 7 p.m. and to conclude within 90 mins) Private Members' Business shall be the Motion re Pay Rises for Community and Voluntary Sector Workers, selected by the Labour Party.

*If not previously concluded, debate shall be interrupted on any of these three Bills at Second Stage either four hours and 55 minutes after the conclusion of the SOS or at 7 p.m., whichever is the later.

Thursday’s business shall be: - Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 (Second Stage)

- Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 (Second Stage) Thursday evening business shall be Second Stage of the Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2018.

In relation to Tuesday’s business, it is proposed that: 1. the ordinary routine of business as contained in Schedule 3 to Standing Orders shall be modified to the following extent:

(i) the Dáil shall sit later than 10.30 p.m.; and

(ii) if not previously concluded, Government business shall only be interrupted to take private members’ business on the conclusion of Second Stage of the Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022, or at 8 p.m., whichever is the later, with consequential effect on the commencement time of Parliamentary Questions to the Minister for Education and topical issues;

2. the Motion re Seventeenth Report of the Committee of Selection shall be taken without debate;

3. the Motion re Financial Resolution for Tailte Éireann Bill 2022 shall be taken without debate; and

4. on the conclusion of the first speaking round on Second Stage of the Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022, a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply, which shall not exceed ten minutes, whereupon proceedings shall be brought to a conclusion: Provided that any division claimed on the Second Stage proceedings shall be taken on Wednesday either at 7 p.m. or four hours and 55 minutes after the conclusion of the SOS, whichever is the later. In relation to Wednesday’s business, it is proposed that: 1. the ordinary routine of business as contained in Schedule 3 to Standing Orders shall be modified to the following extent:

(i) Parliamentary Questions to the Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Order 46(1) shall not be taken;

(ii) the sitting shall be suspended pursuant to Standing Orders 25(1) at the time when Parliamentary Questions to the Taoiseach would normally be taken; and

(iii) the weekly division time shall be taken on the conclusion of proceedings on Committee and remaining Stages of the Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022, with consequential effect on the time for the adjournment of the Dáil;

2. the Motion re Leave to Introduce Supplementary Estimates [Votes 29 and 40] shall be taken without debate;

3. the proceedings on any second reading motion of a Government Bill shall, if not previously concluded, be interrupted either at 7 p.m. or four hours and 55 minutes after the conclusion of the SOS, whichever is the later; and

4. in relation to the Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022, the following arrangements shall apply:

(i) Committee and remaining Stages shall take place either at 7 p.m., or four hours and 55 minutes after the conclusion of the SOS, whichever is the later, or where a division has been claimed on the proceedings on Second Stage of the Bill, on the conclusion of any such division; and

(ii) the proceedings on Committee and remaining Stages shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 90 minutes 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 Environment, Climate and Communications.

In relation to Thursday's business, and in relation to the referral to Committee of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill, it is proposed that: 1. the ordinary routine of business as contained in Schedule 3 to Standing Orders shall be modified to the extent that topical issues shall be taken either at 7 p.m., or on the conclusion of Government business, whichever is the earlier, with consequential effect on the commencement time for Second Stage of the Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2018 and on the time for the adjournment of the Dáil; and

2. the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022 be referred to the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment pursuant to Standing Order 95 and 181.

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