It is proposed to take No. 15, motion re National Council for Special Education (Establishment) Order 2003, back from committee; No. 22a, Taxi Regulation Bill 2003 – Committee and Remaining Stages; No. 3 – Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Bill 2003 [Seanad]– Second Stage; and No. 31 – Residential Tenancies Bill 2003 – Second Stage (resumed). It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 4.45 p.m. tonight and business shall be interrupted not later than 10 p.m. and the sitting shall be suspended from 1.30 p.m. to 2 p.m.; No. 15 shall be decided without debate; the Committee and Remaining Stages of No. 22a shall be taken today and the proceedings thereon shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after two hours and 30 minutes by one question which shall be put from the Chair and which shall, in relation to amendments, include only those set down or accepted by the Minister for Transport; and Second Stage of No. 3 shall be taken today and the proceedings thereon shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 10 p.m.
The Dáil shall sit tomorrow at 10.30 a.m. and shall adjourn not later than 4 p.m. There shall be no Order of Business and, accordingly, the following business shall be transacted in the following order: No. 23, statements on audit of health structures, Prospectus report, and the commission into health funding, Brennan report, to conclude at 1.30 p.m. if not previously concluded; and No. 24 – statements on the World Trade Organisation talks, Cancún, to conclude at 4 p.m. if not previously concluded. The following arrangements shall apply in each case: The statements of a Minister or Minister of State and of the main spokespersons for the Fine Gael Party, the Labour Party and the Technical Group, who shall be called upon in that order, shall not exceed 15 minutes in each case; the statements of each other Member called upon shall not exceed ten minutes in each case and Members may share time. On No. 23, the Minister for Health and Children shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which shall not exceed ten minutes and on No. 24, the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment shall be called upon to make a statement in reply which shall not exceed five minutes.