It is proposed to take business as on the Order Paper: Items Nos. 1, 17 and 7. Business will be interrupted at 6 p.m., if agreed, to take the Second and subsequent Stages of No. 1.
Order of Business.
The Second Stage. Let us cross the next fence when we meet it. What is the point of adding No. 7 to the list?
I am hoping that No. 17 will be finished.
Not this side of Easter, I gather.
I do not know what length of time item No. 1 will take— whether it will be a couple of minutes or a couple of hours—but I am interested in it for this reason, that I am interested in item No. 17 and so long as it goes on, I have to be in the House. The House understands that there are a number of amendments in my name and I have to be here for them, and it would be a rather severe physical strain on me personally if I have to be in the House all the time——
Nonsense!
——until 10.30. The Tánaiste might take that into consideration in arranging for the discussion of this Bill on other occasions.
I will keep that in mind.
I am in the difficulty that I have no Parliamentary Secretary.
Could we have some information about next week's sitting? Is it proposed to sit on Tuesday?
Yes.
What about to-morrow's business?
To-morrow, at the normal hour.
And to-morrow's business?
If 17 does not finish.
Could I ask the Tánaiste to order something else for to-morrow morning?
He is not ordering anything now.
I will think about it. I am hoping that 17 will finish.