I move:
That the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business are hereby amended by–
(a) the deletion of ‘Standing Order 68' and the substitution therefor of ‘Standing Orders 68 and 68A' in Standing Order 66(2);
(b) the adoption of the following as an additional Standing Order of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business:–
‘68A. (1) Unless the Dáil shall other wise order, divisions in the Dáil may be conducted by electronic means save in the case of divisions on any of the following matters:
(a) election of Ceann Comhairle,
(b) nomination of the Taoiseach and members of the Government,
(c) motion of confidence in the Government,
(2) Where the Ceann Comhairle informs the Dáil at any time that it is not possible to conduct divisions by electronic means or that the result may be unreliable or where, for any other reason, he or she considers that divisions should not be so conducted, the Ceann Comhairle may order the Dáil to divide or to divide again, as the case may be, on the question, whether by electronic means or otherwise, as he or she considers appropriate in the circumstances, or may postpone the taking of the division to such later time as he or she shall direct.
(3) On the announcement by the Ceann Comhairle of the result of a division which has been taken by electronic means, any member may demand–
(a) that the division be taken again by electronic means, or
(b) that the division be taken again otherwise than by electronic means,
and the Ceann Comhairle shall, unless the member who so demands is a teller nominated for the purposes of that division, call upon the members who support the demand to rise in their places and
(i) if fewer than twenty members so rise, the Ceann Comhairle shall forthwith declare the determination of the Dáil or Committee of the whole Dáil, and the names of the members who so rise shall be recorded as dissenting in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Dáil,
(ii) if twenty or more members so rise or if the member who so demands is a teller nominated for the purposes of that division, the Ceann Comhairle shall order the Dáil to divide again on the question in the manner demanded.
(4) In respect of divisions by electronic means, where the question on which a division has been demanded is put immediately after the result of an earlier division has been declared, the period for which the division bells are rung and the interval between the ringing of the bells and the locking of the doors shall be not less than two minutes and not less than one minute respectively.';
(c) the deletion of ‘Standing Orders 67 and 68' and the substitution therefor of ‘Standing Orders 67, 68 and 68A' in Standing Order 69; and
(d) the insertion of ‘, 68A' after ‘Standing Orders 67, 68' in Standing Order 71.'.