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Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Howlin.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Can Members accept that the proposal to refer to committee is a staging post and that we can refer to committee and agree that today? This would mean that after it has been considered by the committee and if Members feel that the latter has given it inadequate consideration, the Business Committee can agree to have a further debate in the House after the committee discussions. Can we let it...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We can all hear him.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy has made his point.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy has made his point. Time is elapsing.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I would defend to the last the Deputy's right to raise issues. He has been raising the issue but we do, at some stage, have to move the process on. I am simply saying to him at this juncture that we can allow the referral if Members wish and they do not have to allow it if they do not wish to. It can go to committee to be considered by it and we can have the debate here afterwards if that...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Okay, it is not agreed.

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Seán Ó Fearghaíl: No, we are going to vote now.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Can the Government facilitate two hours on Thursday to be given for a debate on Aleppo?

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: So Members can be facilitated with a debate on Aleppo.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We can have an all-party motion.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The two-hour slot that was otherwise going to be the Fianna Fáil-----

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is that agreed? Agreed. Is the proposal for dealing with Wednesday's business agreed to?

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Tomorrow, we will have a Dáil reform committee meeting. If the Dáil reform committee does a complete about-face and decides the principle of dividing plenary from committee sitting should be abandoned, it is the committee's prerogative, and it can happen tomorrow.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is written into Standing Orders. Standing Orders give effect to the principle.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: There is a difference between what the Deputy is saying here and what his representatives might say at the Dáil reform committee.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Lahart is not a member of the Dáil reform committee.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Can we please proceed? Is the proposal for dealing with Wednesday's business agreed to? Agreed. Is the proposal for dealing with Thursday's business, as amended for the debate on Aleppo, agreed to? Agreed.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes.