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

I move:

Tuesday's business shall be: - Motion reReferral to Joint Committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) Regulations 2022 (without debate)

- Motion reEighteenth Report of the Committee of Selection (without debate)

- Finance Bill 2022 (Second Stage) (to conclude within 3 hrs 40 mins) Private Members' Business shall be the Motion reAccessible, Affordable and Reliable Public Transport, selected by Sinn Féin.

Wednesday’s business shall be: - Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022 (Second Stage) (to conclude within 3 hrs 40 mins and any division claimed be taken immediately prior to Committee Stage)

- Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022 (Second Stage) (to conclude within 1 hr 55 mins and any division claimed be taken immediatelyprior to Committee Stage)

- Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022 (Committee and remaining Stages) (to be taken no earlier than 7 p.m. and to conclude within 60 mins)

- Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022 (Committee and remaining Stages) (to conclude within 30 mins) Private Members' Business shall be the Motion reSocial and Affordable Housing Supply, selected by People-Before-Profit-Solidarity.

Thursday’s business shall be: - Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022 (Second Stage) (to conclude within 3 hrs 40 mins)

- Statements on Energy Security (not to exceed 145 mins) Thursday evening business shall be Second Stage of the Mental Health (Capacity to Consent to Treatment) Bill 2021.

Proposed Arrangements for this week's business:

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) where not previously concluded, Government business shall not be interrupted at 6.12 p.m., and private members’ business shall be taken on the conclusion of Second Stage of the Finance Bill 2022, with consequential effect on the commencement time for Parliamentary Questions to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and topical issues;

2. the Motion reReferral to Joint Committee of proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Data Protection Act 2018 (Section 60(6)) Regulations 2022 shall be taken without debate;

3. the Motion reEighteenth Report of the Committee of Selection shall be taken without debate; and

4. on Second Stage of the Finance Bill 2022, on the conclusion of the first speaking round in accordance with the arrangements agreed by Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed 10 minutes, whereupon proceedings shall be brought to a conclusion. 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 Dáil shall sit later than 9.30 p.m.;

(ii) Government business may continue after 8.45 p.m. in order to allow the proceedings on the Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022 to conclude; and

(iii) the weekly division time may be taken later than 8.45 p.m. and shall, in any event, be taken on the conclusion of proceedings on the Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022;

2. on Second Stage of the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022, on the conclusion of the first speaking round in accordance with the arrangements agreed by Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed 10 minutes, whereupon proceedings shall be brought to a conclusion: Provided that any division claimed on the Second Stage proceedings shall be taken immediately prior to Committee Stage, but in any event, not earlier than 7 p.m.;

3. in relation to Second Stage of the Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022, the following arrangements shall apply:

(i) the first speaking round shall be in accordance with the arrangements agreed by Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, save that the times shall be halved in each case; and

(ii) on the conclusion of the first speaking round, a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed 10 minutes, whereupon proceedings shall be brought to a conclusion: Provided that any division claimed on the Second Stage proceedings shall be taken immediately prior to Committee Stage;

4. Committee and remaining Stages of the Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022 shall be taken no earlier than 7 p.m. and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 60 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 Housing, Local Government and Heritage;

5. Committee and remaining Stages of the Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 30 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 the Environment, Climate and Communications; and

6. pursuant to Standing Order 94(3), the Dáil shall waive its instruction that not more than two Select Committees shall meet to consider a Bill on any given day in the case of the proposed meetings of the Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment, the Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media and the Select Committee on Transport and Communications, to consider, respectively,the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022, the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022 [Seanad] and the Communications Regulation Bill 2022. In relation to Thursday’s business and in relation to the referral of a Bill to Select Committee, 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 may be taken later than 7.24 p.m., but shall in any event be taken on the conclusion of Government business, with consequential effect on the commencement time for Second Stage of the Mental Health (Capacity to Consent to Treatment) Bill 2021 and on the time for the adjournment of the Dáil, which may be later than 9.27 p.m.;

2. on Second Stage of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022, on the conclusion of the first speaking round in accordance with the arrangements agreed by Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, a Minister or Minister of State shall be called upon to make a speech in reply which shall not exceed 10 minutes, whereupon proceedings shall be brought to a conclusion;

3. Statements on Energy Security shall not exceed 145 minutes, with arrangements in accordance with those agreed by Order of the Dáil of 30th July, 2020, for 135 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 Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022 be referred to the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Orders 95 and 181; and

5. the Dáil on its rising on Thursday, 27th October, 2022, shall adjourn until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 8th November, 2022.

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