Maurice Cummins (Fine Gael)

Senator O'Brien and other Senators spoke about the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, and I thank them for their comments in that regard. We need to change the way in which we do business and this is another step in the right direction. With regard to the Palestinian motion, I hope that after the Order of Business we will be able to reach agreement on an all-party motion. We have a wording we would like to use and I hope we can agree on the motion today.

Committee and Report Stages of the Electoral (Amendment) Bill will be dealt with on Thursday. I had a meeting with the party leaders last week in which I outlined the position with regard to this Bill, and there was no objection at that stage to having Committee and Report Stages on that day, with a break in between. We will do our best to help everybody on this. We are not trying to steamroll it through.