It is proposed, as was foreshadowed yesterday, that we should take items Nos. 1, 2, and 3 on the Order Paper and that item No. 3 should be taken not later than 3.30 p.m. today. I might say that there was, as Senators know, a misunderstanding in regard to the motion, item No. 1, but we will devote an hour-and-a-half to it today and complete the debate at a future sitting. It is also proposed that there should be intermission from 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock.
In speaking on the Order of Business, I would like to say a few words of tribute to our former Clerk Assistant, Mr. Martin McMahon, who has received promotion and accordingly will no longer be with us. I thank him for his work in the House and his work in the office and the manner in which he has always been helpful to Members of this House, not only to those of us who are responsible for its business but also to individual Senators. I would like to welcome his successor, Mr. Kieran Coughlan. I am confident that when his turn comes to leave us he also will have earned our tribute.
