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

I move:

Tuesday's business shall be: -Motion re Supplementary Estimates for Public Services [Vote 40] (back from Committee) (without debate)

-Motion re Instruction to Committee on the National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022 (without debate)

-National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022 (Second Stage)*

-Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022 (Second Stage)* Private Members' Business shall be the Motion re Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections, selected by Sinn Féin.

* If not previously concluded, proceedings shall be interrupted on these two Bills either three hours and 10 minutes after the conclusion of Taoiseach’s oral questions, or at 7 p.m., whichever is the later

Wednesday’s business shall be: -Motion re Supplementary Estimates for Public Services [Vote 29] (back from Committee) (without debate)

-Statements pre-European Council meeting on 20-21 October 2022 (not to exceed 110 mins)

-National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022 (Second Stage)**

-Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022 (Second Stage)**

-Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 (Second Stage)**

-Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Report and Final Stages) (to be taken no earlier than 7 p.m. and to conclude within 90 mins) Private Members' Business shall be the Motion re Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme, selected by the Social Democrats.

** If not previously concluded, proceedings shall be interrupted on any of these three Bills either two hours and 20 minutes after the conclusion of the SOS or at 7 p.m., whichever is the later.

Thursday’s business shall be: -Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022 (Second Stage)

- Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 (Second Stage)

-Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill (Second Stage) Thursday evening business shall be Second Stage of the Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022.

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)Government business shall, if not previously concluded, be interrupted either at 7 p.m. or 3 hours and 10 minutes after the conclusion of Taoiseach’s Questions pursuant to Standing Order 46(1), whichever is the later, with consequential effect on the commencement time for private members’ business, Parliamentary Questions to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and topical issues;

2.the Motion re Supplementary Estimate for Public Services [Vote 40] shall be taken without debate; and

3.the Motion re Instruction to Committee on the National Cultural Institutions (National Concert Hall) (Amendment) Bill 2022 shall be taken without debate. 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)the SOS pursuant to Standing Order 25(1) shall be taken on the conclusion of the Statements pre European Council meeting of 20th-21st October, pursuant to Standing Order 124, which shall be taken on the conclusion of Parliamentary Questions to the Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Order 46(1), with consequential effect on the time for the commencement of Government business; and

(ii)no further Government business shall be taken following the conclusion of proceedings on the Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021, with consequential effect on the commencement time for the weekly divisions and on the time for the adjournment of the Dáil;

2.the Motion re Supplementary Estimate for Public Services [Vote 29] shall be taken without debate;

3.the Statements pre European Council meeting of 20th-21st October, pursuant to Standing Order 124, shall not exceed 110 minutes, with arrangements in accordance with those agreed by Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, for 100 minutes, following which a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which shall not exceed 10 minutes, and members may share time;

4.the proceedings on any second reading motion of a Government Bill shall, if not previously concluded, be interrupted either at 7 p.m. or 2 hours and 20 minutes after the conclusion of the SOS, whichever is the later; and

5.in relation to the Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021, the following arrangements shall apply:

(i)Report and Final Stages shall take place either at 7 p.m. or 2 hours and 20 minutes after the conclusion of the SOS, whichever is the later; and

(ii)the proceedings thereon 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 Justice.

In relation to Thursday's business, it is proposed that 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 8 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 Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022 and on the time for the adjournment of the Dáil, which may be later than 9.27 p.m.

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