Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

I propose a change in the Order of Business, to defer the taking of No. 2. Senator Fitzgerald observed that the briefing notice we received yesterday in respect of this motion is scant in detail and explains nothing of the implications, financial and otherwise, of this EU regulation. The provision has not been examined by an Oireachtas committee, whereas the Parliaments of other member states have spent months discussing it. It is wrong to foist a motion such as this upon us with only one day's notice. We should defer our discussion of it until we have discussed its implications.