Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I move:

That, in accordance with the recommendation of the sub-Committee on Dáil Reform under Standing Order 107(1)(a), the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business be amended as follows:a) in paragraph (10)(d) of Standing Order 6, by the deletion of ‘90 minutes’ and the substitution of ‘60 minutes’;

b) in paragraph (3)(f) of Standing Order 70, by the deletion of ‘or Report stages’ and the substitution of ‘, Report and Final Stages’;

(c) by the deletion of paragraph (6) in Standing Order 84A and the substitution of the following:

‘(6) Where a Select Committee appointed pursuant to this Standing Order has been joined with a Select Committee appointed by Seanad Éireann, the Chairman of the Dáil Select Committee shall also be the Chairman of the Joint Committee.’;

(d) in paragraph (1) of Standing Order 93, by the deletion of all words from, ‘In Joint Committees’ down to and including ‘member of either House.’;

(e) in paragraph (3) of Standing Order 95, by the deletion of ‘and amendments’ and the substitution of ‘, save in accordance with paragraph (2), and further to the provisions of Standing Order 150 in relation to the tabling of amendments to Bills’;

(f) in paragraph (1) of Standing Order 107, by the insertion of the following after ‘Committee on Procedure’:

‘, which is a continuation in being of the Committee under its former title, namely, the Committee on Procedure and Privileges,’; and

g) in paragraph (r) of Schedule 1, by the insertion of ‘or Leas-Cheann Comhairle’ after ‘Ceann Comhairle’.”