It is proposed to take Nos. 10, 3, 4 and 11. Private Members' Business shall be No. 22. By agreement and notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, the following arrangements shall apply today:
(1) Business shall be interrupted at 5.30 p.m. to enable statements to be made on bank interest rates subject to:
(a) With the exception of the Minister for Finance, no Member shall make more than one statement,
(b) The statements of the speakers for the Government and each of the Opposition parties shall not exceed 20 minutes,
(c) The concluding speaker, who shall be a member of the Government, shall be called not later than 6.50 p.m.
(2) Business shall be interrupted at 8.30 p.m. to take items 3, 4 and 11 and the order shall not be resumed thereafter. The remaining Stages of the Registration of Potato Growers and Potato Packers Bill, 1984 shall be brought to a conclusion not later than 10.30 p.m. by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in relation to amendments, include only amendments set down by the Minister for Agriculture.
(3) The Dáil shall sit later than 9 p.m. today and not later than 11 p.m. and business shall be interrupted at 10.30 p.m.