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Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Do not be provoked.

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.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Let us be very clear before we get involved in a protracted debate on this. Deputy Martin has made his view on the sittings patently clear. However, the proposal for the current arrangements for sittings, which was adopted by the House, came from the all-party Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform, which was equally emphatic about the principle of dividing the week's work between plenary...

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It can, because nothing is written in stone, but it would be necessary for the Dáil reform committee to revisit the matter. That has been considered and a date will be fixed for that type of review to take place.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We are not getting into that.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Resume your seat.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Wait now-----

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Martin, please resume your seat.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I did raise the issue of Dáil reform.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I do not wish to have an argument with you but the Dáil reform committee was established on the basis of an agreed motion in the House.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy Howlin.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh. There are three questions to be put to the House today. Is the proposal for dealing with No. 1, today's business, agreed to?

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: It is not agreed. I call Deputy Bríd Smith.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Yes.

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: That concludes Leaders' Questions. We will move on to the Order of Business. I call Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh who will be acting as rapporteur of the Business Committee to announce the business for the week and to move the proposal regarding arrangements for the taking of business.