Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move:

Tuesday's business shall be:

- Motion re Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 44F) (Appointed Day) Order 2023 (without debate)

- Motion re Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Motion re Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 (2 separate motions, to be debated together and conclude within 145 mins)

- Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023 (Second Stage) (if not previously concluded, to stand adjourned at either 7.30 p.m. or after 60 mins, whichever is the later)

Tuesday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Nursing Home Care, selected by Sinn Féin.

Wednesday's business shall be:

- Motion re Restoration of Bills to the Order Paper (without debate)

- Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 – Motion for a Financial Resolution (without debate)

- Statements pre-European Council meeting of 29th-30th June, pursuant to Standing Order 124 (not to exceed 110 mins)

- Statements on Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022 (not to exceed 145 mins)

- Motion re Instruction to Committee on the Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 (to conclude within 60 mins)

- Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 (Amendments from the Seanad) (to be taken no earlier than 6 p.m. and to conclude within 60 mins)

Wednesday's private members' business shall be the Motion re Culling the National Herd, selected by the Rural Independent Group.

Thursday's business shall be the resumed Second Stage of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023 (if not previously concluded) (if not previously concluded, to conclude either at 6.25 p.m. or after 4 hours and 40 mins, whichever is the later).

Thursday evening business shall be Second Stage of the Defective Dwellings 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 extent

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

(ii) the time at which Government business shall be interrupted to take private members' business shall be in accordance with the arrangements

for the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023, with consequential effect on the commencement

times for the items following private members' business in the ordinary routine of business, namely, oral Parliamentary Questions to the Minister

for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and topical issues;

2. the Motion re Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Technological Universities Act 2018 (Section 44F) (Appointed Day) Order 2023 shall be taken without debate;

3. in relation to the Motion re Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and the Motion re Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009, the following arrangements shall apply:

(i) the motions shall be debated together, with separate questions put on all proceedings thereon;

(ii) the proceedings shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 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 speech in reply which shall not exceed 10 minutes; and

(iii) members may share time; and

4. the proceedings on Second Stage of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023 shall, if not previously concluded, be interrupted and stand adjourned at either 7.30 p.m. or after 60 minutes, whichever is the later.

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

1. the ordinary routine of business as set out 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 immediately following the Statements pre-European Council meeting of 29th-30th June,

pursuant to Standing Order 124, which shall be taken on the conclusion of Parliamentary Questions to the Taoiseach pursuant to Standing Order 46(1);

and

(ii) 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 Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022, with consequential effect on the time for the adjournment of the Dáil;

2. the Motion re Restoration of Bills to the Order Paper shall be taken without debate;

3. the Motion for a Financial Resolution on the Historic and Archaeological Heritage

Bill 2023 shall be taken without debate;

4. the Statements pre-European Council meeting of 29th-30th June, 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;

5. the Statements on the Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022 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;

6. the proceedings on the Motion re Instruction to Committee on the Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 60 minutes, and shall be confined to a single speaking round, with the contributions of a Minister and of a representative of Sinn Féin, the Labour Party, Social Democrats, People-Before-Profit Solidarity, the Regional Group, the Rural Independent Group, and the Independent Group (who shall be called in that order) not exceeding 7.5 minutes each, and members may share time; and

7. the proceedings on the amendments from the Seanad to the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 shall be taken no earlier than 6 p.m. and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after 60 minutes and any amendments from the Seanad not disposed of shall be decided by one question which shall be put from the Chair, and which shall, in relation to amendments to the Seanad amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Justice.

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

1. the ordinary routine of business as set out in Schedule 3 to Standing Orders shall be modified to the extent that topical issues shall be taken on the conclusion of Second Stage of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023, with consequential effect on the commencement time for Second Stage of the Defective Dwellings Bill 2021 and on the time for the adjournment of the Dáil; and

2. the proceedings on the resumed Second Stage of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023 shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at either 6.25 p.m. or after 4 hours and 40 minutes, whichever is the later, and any division demanded thereon shall be taken immediately prior to Committee Stage of the Bill.

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