The Order of Business today shall be No. 11, motion re establishment of Joint Committee on the Constitution; No. 12, Protection of the Environment Bill 2003 [Seanad] – Financial Resolution; No. 19, Protection of the Environment Bill 2003 [Seanad] – Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; No. 20, Immigration Bill 2002 [Seanad] – Order for Report, Report and Final Stages; and No. 21, Interpretation Bill 2000 – Order for Report, Report and Final Stages, to be taken not later than 10.30 p.m., and the order shall not resume thereafter.
It is proposed, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, that the Dáil shall sit later than 8.30 p.m. tonight and business shall be interrupted not later than 11 p.m.; Nos. 11 and 12 shall be decided without debate; the proceedings on Report and Final Stages of No. 19 shall be taken today and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 9.30 p.m. 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 the Environment, Heritage and Local Government; the proceedings on Report and Final Stages of No. 21 shall be taken today and shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion at 11 p.m. 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 of State at the Department of the Taoiseach; Private Members' Business shall be No. 36, motion re housing.