I move:
That, with effect from 5th May, 1999, until the last sitting day before the Summer Recess –
(a) Standing Order 35(2) of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public business be amended by –
(i) the deletion of "twenty-five minutes" and the substitution of "fifteen minutes";
(ii) the deletion of "one hour" where it secondly occurs and the substitution therefor of "fifty minutes", and
(iii) the deletion of "twenty minutes" and the substitution therefor of "thirty minutes";
and
(b) Standing Order 38 of the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business be amended by the deletion of paragraph (2) and the substitution therefor of the following paragraph –
"(2) (a) The time allowed for each Question nominated for priority shall not exceed six minutes: Provided that, of this six minutes, the time allowed for the initial Ministerial reply shall not exceed two minutes: Provided further that, where a Minister or Minister of State so requests, the Ceann Comharile shall direct that a statement containing additional infor mation which is directly relevant to the Ministerial reply be furnished in the Official Report of the Debates, such statement being referred to in the course of the reply.
(b) Where Questions nominated for priority are grouped for reply, the total times allowed for the group and for the initial Ministerial reply shall be aggregates of the times which would be allowed for the individual Questions.".