Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

The Order of Business shall be No. 1, Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill 2003 – Order for Second Stage and Second Stage, with the contributions of spokespersons for each group not to exceed 30 minutes – this follows requests from two or three of the parties that speaking time be increased from 20 minutes to 30 minutes, to which I am glad to accede – and those of all other Senators not to exceed 15 minutes and on which Senators may share time, the debate to commence at the conclusion of the Order of Business, to continue until 5 p.m. and resume at 7 p.m. and continue until everyone who wishes to speak has spoken; No. 2, statements on the Convention on the Future of Europe, during which we will have the presence of the Minister of State with responsibility for European affairs, Deputy Roche, to be taken from 5 p.m. until 7p.m.