It is proposed to take Nos. 1, 14 and 15. It is also proposed that the Dáil shall sit later than 5.30 p.m. today and business shall be interrupted at 7 p.m. It is further proposed that No. 1 shall be taken without debate. It is further proposed that the proceedings on the Committee and remaining Stages of No. 14 shall be brought to a conclusion, if not previously concluded, at 12.30 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 Labour. It is further proposed that the Dáil shall meet tomorrow at 10.30 a.m. and shall adjourn not later than 4.30 p.m. and the business shall be confined to Estimates for the Public Services.
Order of Business.
Is the proposal for the late sitting today agreed? Agreed. Is it agreed that No. 1 shall be taken without debate? Agreed. Are the proposals for dealing with No. 14 agreed? Agreed. Are the proposals in respect of tomorrow's sitting agreed? Agreed.
May I give notice of my intention to raise on the Adjournment the reported instruction given by the Department of Tourism and Transport, after consultation with the Department of Energy, to Bord Fáilte which resulted in the withdrawal by Bord Fáilte of its objections to a planning application relating to an ESB station in County Kerry?
I will communicate with the Deputy.
May I ask the Minister for Finance if he would call in his newly appointed chairman of Irish Life to direct him that the company should not dispose of any further shares in the Irish Distillers Group at this stage?
That is not a matter for the Order of Business.
Is the Minister going to take any action in this matter?
There are procedures laid down for putting questions of that kind. This is not the time to raise that question.
I would like to raise that matter on the Adjournment.
I will communicate with the Deputy.
Would it be in order for me to ask the Minister for Labour if he has, following the Adjournment debate on Tuesday night, had an opportunity to write to the management of Irish Printed Circuits Limited?
Again, that is hardly a matter for the Order of Business.
It was a good try.
But there was no conversion.
Item No. 1, Report of the Committee of Selection.
A Cheann Comhairle——
He is standing up.
He is deliberately standing up.
May I ask the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he proposes, in view of the fact that the Hanlon ambulance factory is due to close tomorrow, to have any contact with the management?
Deputy Cullen, please desist. The Deputy can find other ways and means to raise that matter.
The factory is due to close tomorrow and 200 jobs are at stake. I appeal to the Minister to intervene.
There are other ways open to the Deputy to pursue that matter.
Can the Minister for Finance tell us when he expects the promised Central Bank Bill to be represented to the Dáil?
As has been said many times by the Taoiseach — including a reply on the matter to Deputy Noonan last week — this Bill is with the parliamentary draftsman but it is unlikely that the Bill will be presented this session.